Inversions

Rating:
Summary: Yes except for the Sun logo!
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Yes except for the Sun logo!
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent book for unique typographical posibilities
Review: 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