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I Heart Science Ambigram

Designed by lucky760 

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Workshopped 10 months ago
Final Tally
71.4%
7 votes

About this design by its creator…

This is a simple ambigram that is viewed identically upside-down as right-side-up. It reads "I Heart Science!" and is targeted at all science fact and science fiction lovers everywhere.

You don't have to turn yourself over for people; that'd ruin the fun. Instead, watch everyone else as they try to turn their head upside-down in front of you.
— lucky760

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by darkrowan  | 10 months ago | CH
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Ambigrams on tees don't really work, because they don't get to be read upside down. Most of them are at least a little more difficult to read right side up, too. I love 'em, I really do, but it's kind of like a gun shop at a democratic convention. No customers.

What you need is a tee with a "spinner" on it, like one of those things you get with some board games.

I wouldn't buy it. But if I owned it, I'd wear it, being so pro-science as to be slightly rabid. That's an ambiguous-gram. I'm voting it up.
by fyngyrz   | 10 months ago | CH
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Thanks for the insightful feedback fyngyrz (and not darkrowan ). Your point is well taken. I don't think it necessarily needs to be something that you have to see upside-down, but it is just a design that has a good degree of neatness because it *can* be seen identically upside-down. (I picture lots of people turning their head over to verify that claim.)

There are a lot of ambigram t-shirts out there and many of them are of the mirror image variety (where you have to stand in front of a mirror to see a different message) and those are very popular even though most people probably don't drag others to a mirror to see the "hidden" message. (See here for a few good examples.)

They aren't often very easily legible, but that's the nature of the beast.

If I try more ambigrams, I guess I should try to focus more on mirror image based ambigrams or those that are duplicitous in their natural orientation (e.g., this one that doubles simultaneously as "I Love You" and "Hate You").
by lucky760   | 10 months ago | CH
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Took a while to realize that it did look the same. I think it's a clever idea, but like fyngyrz, I think it's probably not good for a tee, since you don't have very long to gawk at it.
by gwiz665  | 9 months 4 weeks ago | CH
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