Ambigrammia Between Creation and Discovery

On the history and creation of ambigrams, by a pioneer of the practice

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include the Pulitzer Prize–winning Gödel, Escher, Bach; Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Le Ton beau de Marot; I Am a Strange Loop; and Surfaces and Essences. Aside from being a cognitive scientist focused on analogy-making, he is engaged in art, music, and translation. Scott Kim (scottkim.com) is a puzzle creator and graphic designer who has been making ambigrams since the 1970s. His 1981 book Inversions: A Catalog of Calligraphic Cartwheels was the first book of ambigrams ever published.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Douglas R Hofstadter, Douglas Hofstadter
• Mitarbeit: Kim Scott (Vorwort)
• Verlag: Yale University Press Ltd
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.07.2025
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Innenarchitektur, Design
• EAN: 9780300275438
• ISBN: 978-0-300-27543-8
• Anzahl Seiten: 320
• Themen: Illustration, Popular Culture, Perception, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Typography, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, ART / Popular Culture, History of art / art & design styles, ROTATION, History of Art, words, Letters, Typography & lettering, Typography and lettering, Reflection, distortion, mirror symmetry, wordplay, reversible, rotational symmetry, Legibility, Readability, Letterforms