My First Ambigram

I found this while at my parents house and thought I’d share…

I’m pretty sure I had drawn this doodle/ambigram while in art class in 10th grade. This was the height of The DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons hype, and through both novels, I had been exposed to the typographic work of John Langdon. Six years later, John Langdon would be my Advanced Typography professor.

Admittedly, this ambigram isn’t really successful, but I still think it’s an interesting doodle paired with the start of an interesting solution to my name. 

Pretzel Bold | Advanced Typography

Walked into Advanced Typography with John Langdon yesterday with “Bite the alphabet” written on the chalkboard. The class spent the next 40 minutes carefully biting off bits, ends, knots, and loops of Uncle Jerry’s Hard Pretzels to make a full alphabet. Granted, it’s a mix of upper and lower case (and the only consistent style is ‘salted’) - but it was a tremendously fun experiment and team-building exercise nonetheless.

Above: the full alphabet, and a photo-collage of my name out of pretzel.