CHAPTER5

UPSIDE DOWN

In the next three chapters, you will have to move the book around to see the different images; in this chapter, you will have to turn the book upside down. We will begin with words or names called “ambigrams.” Ambigrams are words that can be read from angles other than that at which the text is normally presented.

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What better way to begin this chapter than with the words “upside down?” You will see that this image reads exactly the same way whether you hold the book as you normally would or turn it upside down. The presentation of these two words was designed by Scott Kim for his book, Inversions (Kim, 1989). You will note ...

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