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Inversions: Catalogue of Calligraphic Cartwheels

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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

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.

This is a fun book to have, because it teaches you how to write your name right-side up and upside down. You can use a variety of lettering, too.

We actually picked this book up from a local used book dealer last summer. We had no idea it was still in print! Hooray! Scott Kim's art has kept our family entranced. Our son, who is 8 and obsessed with math, loves this book. It is one of his favorite bedtime "reads". It rarely strays from his bedside table.

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.

I was very pleased with the promptness of service and the condition of the book.