Inversions

By Scott Kim

Backword by Jef Raskin "Inversions" are words that read the same upside down or in a mirror. Or words cleverly hidden inside other words. Each has something to fool the eye, a special visual trick; at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559532807
• ISBN13: 9781559532808
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Key Curriculum
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring letters

I can't stop looking at this book. I already used his concepts to do the alphabetic origami that he does so well for friends and family. Then I actually read the text (side irony: I was too involved in looking at the words to read) and the ideas he gives are great food for thought. Delicious in fact.

Yes except for the Sun logo!

I bought this book after reading Douglas Hofstadter's GEB. I liked it a lot; I'm the type who fiddles with logos and word- and letter-forms a lot.The Sun Microsystems logo is a well-known "inversion" that Scott Kim didn't make. I even tried to congratulate him on it once. It's by Vaughn Pratt.Kim, according to a comment on his web site, did the original Silicon Graphics (SGI) logo.

Excellent book for unique typographical posibilities

I think that every graphitti artist should read this book before defacing a wall. It was written by the designer of the logo for Sun Microsystems and a few others. It is a really facinating book, it shows you how to think the same way as the author, and how to design text that can be read as one word right-side up, and as another up-side down. I highly recommend it.Darius