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The word ambigram was coined in 1983 by Douglas Hofstadter, an American scholar of cognitive science best known as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Gödel, Escher, Bach. [ 7 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is a neologism composed of the Latin prefix ambi- ("both") and the Greek suffix -gram ("drawing, writing").
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An ambigram is certainly some kind of a “design” — a basic one-word description. Or a “visual design”. Perhaps: ”An ambigram is a visual design that offers multiple interpretations when its graphic representation is turned upside down, is flipped sideways, or provides some other change to the reader’s orientation.
He created his first ambigram, which he called an "upside-down word", in 1972 using the word heaven. [10] [14] By 1980, Langdon claims both he and Stanford graduate student Scott Kim invented ambigrams, albeit separately. Kim called his creations inversions; in 1984, Douglas Hofstadter coined the term ambigram.
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