The ambigram project I am currently working on is going to take a while, so for now I will post some older works here. Being an admirer of classical music, I thought I would try to turn the names of some composers into ambigrams.
Alban Berg, GIMP, May 2009
This one was not too complicated, since the letters in the middle allowed for relatively simple one to one conversions. It was mostly the A/g pair at the ends of the word that was troubling me. The g turned out fine, but it needed the hook of the r to rotate into a recognizable A.
Sibelius, GIMP, May 2009
Sibelius was with its s's on both ends a tempting candidate. Unfortunately the middle part proved to be far less cooperative. I finally ended up with a solution where all those letters are interconnected—even the dots of the i's are provided by extensions from other glyphs.
Gustav Mahler, GIMP, May 2009
With Gustav Mahler I quickly figured out that the G to R was most easily solved with capital letters, a solution I had learned elsewhere. I was actually surprised I could carry on with the capitals in other pasts of the ambigram as well. The only real puzzle was the S, which would have to be turned into the larger part of the H. The major differences between these letters required some trickery with floating serifs and omitted strokes.
The final result is nice all caps ambigram with a lot of interconnected symbols.
The Gustav Mahler one is very good, but I couldn't really tell what the other two said without looking at the captions.
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