May 15th, 2026 – My Journey

My graphic design journey to the world of ambigrams started from an ambigram of Paul McCartney. Before then, I was only vaguely aware of such things as ambigrams upon reading news about Dan Brown’s book featuring them. I was mesmerized by the album cover and immediately started sketching myself.

The first ambigram I sketched is my family name, “Fang”, which still holds up very well to this day. Realizing its difficulty, I stopped almost right after and for a very long time I didn’t really pay much attention to it.

More than a decade has passed until I picked it up again, prompted by a conversation with a colleague. Lots more experiments followed and I have since been practicing on and off, as much as my daily schedule allows.

I read John Langdon’s book Wordplay and much later Douglas Hofstadter’s Ambigrammia. I visit the ambigrams subreddit. I follow The Spin Doctor on Youtube. I’m having a lot of fun designing ambigrams for friends and colleagues.

Ambigrams are now a fun part of my life.