Jutt's Weblog - My Thoughts on Ambigrams

Below I have listed some of the more interesting sites about ambigrams. The list includes a lot of links to the personal sites or blogs of many ambigram artists. If available, this also includes their galleries at Flickr or Deviantart.

General ambigram Sites

Ambigram Magazine
Site about everything ambigram related. Updates with ambigram news, interviews and other articles. Hosts the Ambigram.Com Ambigram Challenge (ACAC). Site editors/contributors are Mark Hunter, Nikita Prokhorov and Naguib & Fadilah.

Flickr Ambigram Group
Probably the largest online collection of ambigram artwork from many different artists. An open group where anyone with a Flickr account can join in and contribute.

Sites of Ambigram Artists

John Langdon
johnlangdon.net
Renowned artist best known for his ambigrams published in Dan Brown's book Angels and Demons. Said to be one of the two independent inventors of ambigrams. Great source of inspiration for the many ambigram artists who followed.

Scott Kim
scotkim.com
Well known ambigram artist, who also designs puzzles and computer games. Said to be the other of the two independent inventors of ambigrams.

Robert Petrick
robertpettrick.com
A graphic designer and early discoverer of ambigrams. One of his best known works is the logo for the band Angel.

Naguib & Fadilah (Nagfa)
Ambigrams by Nagfa
A married couple from Malaysia who have run their blog for quite a long time. It was well known for the monthly Nagfa Ambigram Contest (NAC), but it finished in 2008 and was later reborn as the ACAC.

Mark Palmer
WowTattoos
Artist with one of the most successful business models for ambigrams on the web. His artwork is mostly sold for tattoos. Co-creator of the Glyphusion ambigram generator, which is available on his site for automated tattoo designs.

Mark Hunter
Glyphusion, Flipscript
Creator of the Glyphusion ambigram generator. This successful generator creates the designs for some online stores selling ambigram products, for example Flipscript and WowTatoos. Mark is also owner of ambigram.com.

Robert Maitland (Ambidx)
Ambigram Design, Ambigextrous
Ambigram artist who has been around for a fairly long time making fine ambigrams. Also takes commissons.

Daniel Dostal
Signum et Imago (Polish; translation)
Polish artist with a distinctive ambigram style. His work is definitely worth taking a look at.

Bastian Pinnenberg (NastyBasty)
Unterart Ambigram Design
German artist who produces excellent ambigrams. His Flickr gallery contains currently more of his older works than the blog.

Nikita Prokhorov
ambiblog, Nikita Prokhorov Graphic Design
Artist from Russia, who is a contributor for ambigram.com.

Tiffany Harvey
Word Illusion
Artist with an impressive archive of ambigram works on Flickr. Most are commissions, which can be ordered from her main site.

Kevin Pease
Cerulean Stimuli
Another artist who does a lot of commissions. His site provides a very nice gallery of his work.

Björn Wichmann (Burn (Unexplored Media))
This artist doesn't have a site, but do take a look at his Flickr page.

Cleber Faria
cleberfaria.com, cleber.ws

Tom Banwell
The Art of Tom Banwell