A 45-minute tutorial to help you design your own ambigrams
What you will learn
Students will have an insight on how to make their own ambigrams to explore this art form by themselves.
Students will have the groundwork needed to design ambigrams in their regional languages
Why take this course?
An ambigram of a word is legible even when it is read from a different orientation, either when rotated upside down or when viewed in a mirror.
Popular examples of ambigrams are seen in the novel “Angels & Demons” by Dan Brown, notably the ambigram of the “Illuminati” cult and those of the 4 elements – ‘Earth’, ‘Air’, ‘Fire’ and ‘Water’.
The Latin script wasn’t designed to be legible when read upside-down, which makes the idea of designing an ambigram of a word seem really difficult…at first.
This 45-minute course shares a technique to make rotational ambigrams; which are legible even when read upside down. It will cover the following forms of rotational ambigrams:
- Single word ambigrams- which look like the same word when rotated.
- Multi-word ambigrams- which look like a different word when rotated.
- Multi-lingual ambigrams- which look like a word in a different language when rotated.
- Single orientation ambigrams- which do not need to be rotated.