Thursday, December 17, 2009

Flip the script...

This past Tuesday I rented Angles & Demons and after watching it I wanted to try my brain at creating an ambigram of my name. Ambigrams are those typographical treatments that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation. In my research I found that this display-type form originated in the late nineteenth century, rendering the stories claim of them dating back some 400 years historically incorrect. The ones featured in the film (earth, wind, fire, water, and illuminati) were created in blackletter by current king-supreme of ambigrams is Mr. John Langdon


Ambgrams are not mutually exclusive to blackletter-type, they can be created in any style in which the artist is comfortable and/or competent. I did feel the pairing was complimentary and stayed with it. Rather than using contemporary blackletter I used characteristics indicative the late 19th century blackletter based off the of Albion-Gotisch created in 1880 by Hausschnitt Von Benjamin Krebs Nachf. The other type on this page is based off 19th century letterpress.
 
and flipped....

 


9 comments:

Brooks Golden said...

man , this is soooo sick...i love old callig and typog...angels and demons re-sparked my interest....cool!

nagfa said...

Nice work there. The consistent width and structure adds conformity to the overall design.

We design (some) ambigrams too.

salam (peace)
nagfa
Singapore

A. Lewellen said...

That's dope.

Jeremy said...

i just saw that movie too, ambigrams are so wild. nice execution. My coworker showed me this the other day actually http://www.flipscript.com/ambigram-generator.aspx

you can generate ambigrams, probably a good starting point if you wanna try and make one, or atleast see how they work.

Jeremy said...

NOW BURN IT INTO BROOKS CHEST!

Nicky Dieter said...

Thanks homies.

Nagfa- Welcome to the page, thanks for the comment. The width ain't that consistent, but thats the risk I run when drawing freehand with sharpies and not brushes. I will start using brushes this week.

Jeremy- When I was reading about ambirgams I found links to several web-generators, but didn't want to peep before doing the drawing. Just looked, that site is pretty cool. Did my name on there a ton of similarities, but I like my approach more.

Jeremy said...

yeah dude yours i think is a little too complex for a generator to think up. Thats one thing computers will never take from us, AMBIGRAM SKILLS!

Nicky Dieter said...

Ambigram skills and the ability to say "no" to my sexual explorations.

Brooks Golden said...

haha...i would been an ilumanati jere', so No chest burning over here plz...