Thursday, December 17th, 2009
This post is for Paul, who recently pointed out that the “ouno” logo above is an ambigram, and who suggested looking at the work of Scott Kim who made the two animated ambigrams above and below. I did know that “ouno” was the same right-side up as upside down—it was partly chosen for that—but I didn’t know there was a name for this phenomenon.
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Tags: ambigram, ambigrammatic, calligraphy, Douglas R. Hofstadter, font, geometry, John Maeda, language, lettering, math, mathematics, nerd, Scott Kim, typography, visual wordplay
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The word “ouno” is Japanese, which is partly why I chose it (that, and the fact that it’s an ambigram – see upcoming post). Before I ruined the Google Image search for “ouno” by clogging it with my own photos, these two images showed up, both from Japan. I can find out nothing about the temple above and am hoping someone familiar with temples can identify it.
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Tags: ambigram, design, ironwork, Japan, Japanese, Ouno, Owari, prefecture, sword, temple, tsuba, uncouthly shaped
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