Get yer RED HOT AMBIGRAMS here!

The following are the fruits of my labors. Click to see the ambigram (and then use your back button to get back). Some of these are hard to read unless you already know what it says, and some of them are hard to read EVEN if you know what it says, but the effect is usually pretty cool once you see the intended words.

Oh, and a lot of these are names of my friends and people I know/knew. Yeah. ENJOY!

• Alexis Ellwood: Rotationally symmetric. Not very good ambigram.
  
  
• Amanda Griffith: Rotationally symmetric, and one of my most successful ambigrams. You can definitely read this one without too many drugs. I like to (if I can) keep a consistent looking "font" and not jumble upper and lower case. This one is pretty good, and although I use a capital D in Amanda, it's fairly nifty.
  
  
• Bejeweled: This word seems almost divinely created specifically for a mirror-symmetric ambigram. Look how well it worked out. Pretty pretty.
  
  
• Hani Sallum: Rotationally symmetric. It has a capital A that I couldn't avoid, and is somewhat hard to read, but try it.
  
  
• Hope Blizzard: Rotationally symmetric. Once you know what it says, it looks okay.
  
  
• James Scotto-Lavino: Rotationally Symmetric. Looks good to me, although I had to abandon font consistency a bit here. I went for the strange old-style scripty look in places. Note how the "Sc" and "-L" are the same thing. Kinda makes me want a soft drink for some reason.
  
  
• Jennifer Mills: Rotationally symmetric.
  
  
• Joseph Calzaretta: THIS IS THE WORST ambigram I have ever seen, but it's the closest I could get (maybe I'll try again) to my own name, Joseph Calzaretta. It is rotationally symmetric, and violates every rule I've tried to enforce, including the upper/lowercase and font similarity. The three A's in my name are completely different. Oh well.
  
  
• Kimberly McGlothin: Rotationally symmetric, and fairly decent. I really mixed caps and lower case here, and the "e" becoming "Gl" is quite bizarre looking... but I'm really pleased with the "rly" becoming "Mc". Quite pleased with myself.
  
  
• Leah Leier: Rotationally symmetric. It works all right, except I fudged capital/lowercase and the L's are certainly funky.
  
  
• LOVE/hate: This one reads "LOVE" in a pretty little all-caps script font. If you tilt your head counter-clockwise 90 degrees (or rotate your monitor clockwise 90 degrees, not recommended) it reads "hate" in a pretty-little lowercase script font. It is VERY readable in both orientations (new for me) and therefore when you read one, you might not even notice the other one is there. Probably a good way of doing a trick on someone you love, er, hate, er, whatever.
  
  
• Paradox: This one looks kinda neat to me. The name is Paradox, and it's rotationally symmetric.
  
  
• Pismere: This is the name of a project I worked on at MIT. Pismere is an Olde-Englyshe word meaning "ant". Why? Ask me later. But the point is, this ambigram is rotationally symetric and should read "pismere", and has a few ants thrown in for good measure.
  
  
• Saltine: This is of my alter-ego, Saltine. It is mirror-symmetric. This one worked out very well.
  
  
• Sean Lydon: Rotationally Symmetric. Went for the strange old-style look... Not sure if this one works, but ah, well, whatever. It's pretty difficult to get some of these letters to morph into each other... except of course for the capital "L", which becomes itself quite nicely.
  
  
• Star: Mirror-symmetric. Not much more to say.
  
  
• Stephanie: Rotationally symmetric, my wife, Stephanie!
  
  
• Stephanie Hirsch: Mirror symmetric, Stephanie's full name (maiden).
  
  
• Vegan: Here's a word which seems well-suited for rotational symmetry. Enjoy your meal.