ambigram

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In this sequel Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) investigates the murder of a physicist branded with the Illuminati ambigram - a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as it's presented but also in another direction.

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  • I think coining claims should be like Nobels; nobody minds if two or three people win one together.The illustration above is an ambigram, a kind of visual palindrome, done by John Langdon.
  • In this sequel Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) investigates the murder of a physicist branded with the Illuminati ambigram - a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as it's presented but also in another direction. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • The Society 27 logo by Pavel Pavlov makes use of the fantastic ambigram effect, which ensures the logo display exactly the same when viewed in an upside down position. —  doggdot.us
  • "The ambigram totally captures the movie's selling po ..." —  Boing Boing
  • This ambigram was copyrighted by John Langdon (©1988 Wenonah, NJ), the brilliant designer who contributed ambigrams to the book _Angels and Demons_ by Dan Brown. —  haha.nu
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