Dimensions
221 x 220 x 19mm
A beautifully designed book reflecting on the art of ambigrams.
'It would be interesting to know,' Martin Gardner writes in his foreword, 'when it was discovered that certain words are unchanged when inverted or reflected . . . It is easy to see that WOW is MOM upside down, but who would have guessed that an enormous variety of words and phrases with no symmetry when printed could be shaped so that they were the same when inverted or reflected?' In this book John Langdon shows us how we can expand our understanding of terms and concepts by looking at ambigrams - words designed to read upside down, back to front, or in the mirror as well as left to right. (Turn the title upside down). He not only presents the reader with a number of strikingly beautiful and arresting ambigrams but also shows how the very shape of the letters can change our idea of the word itself and its meaning. He even disarmingly demonstrates how one goes about making an ambigram. The reader should be warned, however, that is is not quite as easy as it looks.
