Ambigram

An ambi­gram, also some­times known as an inver­sion, is a typo­graph­i­cal design that spells out one or more words not only in its form as pre­sented, but also from another view point, direc­tion or ori­en­ta­tion. The words spelled out in the other view point, direc­tion or ori­en­ta­tion may be the same or dif­fer­ent from the orig­i­nal words.

-Wikipedia

One of my first real assign­ments for my Graphic Design class was to create an ambi­gram out of my name. It tok me a while to figure out what I was going to do, but then it hit me: I could do my name in hex code! I looked around for a hex code trans­la­tor and found this site, which offers hex code and a lot more! It took a lot of sketch­ing and help from Mr. Bryan to get the forms just right. I’m pleased with the over­all result.

ambigrams

Noah Leigh (Note: the “N” and “L” are in uppercase)

4E 6F 61 68   4C 65 69 67 68

I’ll have more assign­ments to post later.

3 Comments


  1. 1 Dad

    Look­ing for­ward to some healthy new activ­ity on this blog!

  2. 2 Rachel

    That’s intense! Illus­tra­tor or Pho­to­shop? And can it be read in any other direction?And I second Dad. This stuff is inspir­ing me already.

  3. 3 Rachel

    Oh never mind, I can see now it’s done by hand. I love its loose tex­ture - bring an organic feel to the ulti­mate geeky con­cept.  ;)

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