Later ambigrams were developed along 20 th century by different artists like John Langdom, Robert Petrick, Scott Kim, until in 1979 the famous professor Douglas Hofstadter, published his famous book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, where coined the term ambigram. Particularly interesting results what Newell did with his book Topsys and Turvis, when at the last page of the book appears the phrase “The End”, that if inverted can be read “Puzzle”.įrom this point on it was possible to begin reading the book again. This way, people reassert a sense of difference, of uniqueness and even their belonging to specific social groups.Īccording to several publications the first known ambigram dates back to the late 19 th century when the artist, writer and illustrator of books for children Peter Newell, had the idea of creating books with pages that could be read both face up and face down. They represent a wide variety of values, feelings, beliefs, ideologies or affections that people wish to make explicit for others to know. Nowadays tattoos are considered a personal expression, a way people use to talk about themselves, a mode to expose their inner being that is closely linked to the individual universe. According to several sources, the first tattoos should have been created by chance, when someone taking care of a wound rubbed it with ash and when the wound was cured this person realized that the ash mark remained there permanently.
Generally speaking tattoos are created by inserting colored substances under the skin. Although the first written records about tattoos date back to the 18 th century, when the british naturalist Joseph Bank reported about the expeditions performed by Captain James Cook, the fact is that several archaeological studies report that such an ancient civilization as the Phoenicians already used to tattoo their bodies. Tattoos have been part of the human history for centuries.
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