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Talib Kweli; Blacksmith Music
Sisters Forever
Logo for Robin Miller
The Big Black Night
Ambigram for Chris McNulty/The Big Black Night
5 Totems for Abby
5 Totem Ambigrams for Abby Tolentino Lazur.
Blacksmith
Martellotto
I designed this totem ambigram for Greg Martellotto in late \'09, and both the front and back labels for the bottle.
John Mayer
Vittoria
Louis Armstrong
Spire
Helvetica
Action Africa
Gamma Sigma
Sunshine
Life & Death
Trick/Treat
Derren Brown is an English psychological illusionist. His career includes many performances both on stage and on television. His latest series, Trick or Treat, debuted in April of.07 on public service British television station Channel 4. The opening of the show teases the audience with the TRICK/TREAT ambigram I designed for Objective Productions and Derren Brown.
Honeywell
Jäeger
Excellence
Designed for the Guthrie Center, Houston Texas
© 2007 John Langdon
Kelly Ripa
Melanie & Justin
Smoke & Mirrors
May
You Know
Illuminati
Created for Dan Brown's Angels & Demons.
Angels & Demons
Created for Dan Brown's Angels & Demons.
Mark Willie
Brian & Melanie
Berg
Aman Ashraff
Ann & John
Anna & Barry
Burkard Polster
Created for Burkard Polster, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University in Australia © 2007 John Langdon
Logos
© 2007 John Langdon
Wordsmith
© 2007 John Langdon
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Earth/Air/Fire/Water
Created for Dan Brown's Angels & Demons.
Chain Reaction
From Wordplay.
Red/Green
© 2006 John Langdon
6=7&al=9
The first "crypto-ambigram" created for Benjamin Langsfeld and the love of his life
Samantha/Nathan
Sketch of a combination of a totem and a mirror-image ambigram rejected by client. © 2006 John Langdon
AJ Steigman
Commissioned by Len Homan for U.S. Junior Chess Champion A.J. Steigman
Aerosmith
Created to be a gift from Dan Brown to Stephen Tyler. I was able to retain the look of Aerosmith’s long-standing logo, while turning it into a rotational ambigram.
Trompe L'oeil
Created for the French edition of Wordplay. © 2005 John Langdon
Robert Langdon
Dan Brown’s protagonist in Angels & Demons and The DaVinci Code. Ambigram from Wordplay, 2nd edition
Linda and David
Tattoo design commissioned by Linda Robertson. © 2005 John Langdon
City of Brotherly Love/Philadelphia
Philosophy
From Wordplay.
Bridges
Tattoo design commissioned by Michael Bridges. © 2005 John Langdon
Go With the Flow
Personal use; appears in Wordplay 2nd edition. © 2005 John Langdon
Fire & A Prayer
John Langdon logo for album title commissioned by Gary Mraz for Studio Voodoo © 2005 John Langdon
Carpe Diem
Commissioned by Arash Nikkar.
Kristy
John Langdon Tattoo design commissioned by Paul Taboada © 2005 John Langdon
Philosophy / Art & Science
© 2006 John Langdon
The Faithfull
Logo for band commissioned by Matthew Nolan © 2005 John Langdon
Seagulls
Commissioned by Seagulls Media Services LTD; rejected by client.
True/False
David/Slavitt
Energy
From Wordplay.
Waterfalls
From Wordplay.
Orientation
Future
From Wordplay.
Continuity
Grey/Cherie Cremer
Advanced Typography
Geert
James Joyce
All text and graphics
© John Langdon
1996–2013 inclusive.
The ambigrams in Wordplay are protected by the copyright of the book as an entire work. Other ambigrams on this site are protected by the copyright of the site as an entire work. All rights reserved.
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