Wow Tattoos. Want an ambigram designed for a tattoo? Mark Palmer is your guy. Mark has created a business solely devoted to ambigram tattoo designs. He's got over 1000s designs in stock, and can do custom designs quickly and affordably.

Ambigram.com. David Holst and the folks at Word.Net, a web site development company, are creating a very ambitious ambigram site, complete with FAQ, gallery and links. It even includes an automatic ambigram generator, which produces rotationally symmetrical ambigrams on any word or phrase you type in. The program uses a table of shapes for all 351 possible letter pairs. Naturally the results are rather rough, but they're fun as starting points for making more refined inversions.

John Langdon creates ambigrammatical titles and logos as part of his graphic design business. His works are collected in the book Wordplay (not related to the movie about crossword afficionados) which includes essays on the philosophical aspects of ambigrams. Some of his works are available as limited edition prints. John's work predates mine, though we did not know of each other when we started. John created the ambigrams that appear in Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons. Ambigrams figure prominently in the plot, which involves a centuries-old secret society. No, ambigrams are not hundreds of years old, despite Dan's intriguing fictitious history. Here is an unused title sequence from the movie of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, featuring John's art.

Robert Pettrick is a graphic artist in New York who has been making ambigrams longer than most of us. His first "symmetrick" as he calls them was for the rock group "Angel", and it still stands as one of his best. Robert's work was inspired by meeting John Langdon; you can read the story on his web site. You can even order a t-shirt with his classis mirror-symmetric design on the word "nonsense". Good stuff.

Nagfa, a language teacher in Singapore, is a prolific and ambitious ambigram artist who is doing more than anyone to create a worldwide community of ambigram artists, through his ambigram competitions.

Punya Mishra has created a whole gallery of ambigrams, including an inversion on "Darpan" as the title of a magazine of reflections on India. Darpan is a Sanskrit word, written so upside down it reads as its English translation "mirror".

Ronald Dana (Added 10-6-00). Prolific ambigram aficionado Ronald Dana created a beautifully rendered inversion on the word "Graphics".

Brett Gilbert. (Added 10-6-00). Brett Gilbert from Harlow, England created an ambitious ambigram on his own name. Click on "ambigram" under "Start".

Wendy Carlos, the composer behind Switched-On Bach and Sonic Seasonings, created an interesting tiling of her first name for her home page. If all letters in each copy of her name are colored the same color, how many different colors are needed so no two same-colored names touch along an edge?

Douglas Hofstadter started creating ambigrams when he was in high school. His interest in ambigrams and wordplay reflect his research interest in cognitive science. His lettering work appears in his book Metamagical Themas. He has also written a book about ambigrams, in Italian.

Chong Lai This ambigram movie was created by ambitious Singapore graphic artist Chong Lai.