Hi, on the special occasion of our (nag and fa's) wedding, we have prepared some designs (ambigrams, of course!) for our wedding invitations. If you do have the time, we would be especially honoured if you could pick out the one which you feel is the most appropriate..

ambigram: naguib-fadilah1



ambigram: naguib-fadilah2

ambigram: naguib&-fadilah3

ambigram: naguib&-fadilah4

Do leave us your comments. Naguib and Fadilah thank you..

reflection: america

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Can't resist the symmetry in the word 'america'. To 'authenticized' the design, we included the colours - red, blue and white - and 50 stars representing the 50 states from its flag. The central 'e' is a stylized version of the Uncle Sam icon: that patriotic top-hat-wearing guy pointing straight at us.

reflection: singapura

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Singapura: the original Sanskrit name for Singapore. A patriotic design, using the colours and emblems from the Singapura flag: red and white, 5 stars (even the flag hints of the service industry!) and the crescent moon.

ambigram: fahmi (by jojie)

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Conceptualized and designed by Abdullah Fauzi (a.k.a. Jojie), Nag's ambigram-crazy cousin.

 reflection: mouse

After this design, figured that an English version would be appropriate. The main mouse is made up from the letters M: the ears, O: the nose, U: the torso, S: the rigt hind leg and E: the left hind leg; and at the same time is a mirror reflection, totem pole-styled.

 concept piece: pigloo and tortoise

Surrealistic study: igloo sketches..

 concept piece: nagfa

nagfa: the future

 reflection: nagfa-atom

An extension to the new nagfa logo - here - and a play with previous reflection nagfa logos.

 ambigram: gunung

A rather straight-forward ambigram, 'gunung' is Malay for 'mountain'.

reflection: astro-boy

 reflection: astro-boy (the first draft)

More about this evergreen Japanese hero-boy: here.

 ambigram: remember-15february

February 15th 1942. The day the 'invincible master' British surrendered Malaya (Singapore and Malaysia) to the 'dwarved' Japanese. And hereby hangs a tale...

 reflection: durga/umayi

A novel focussed on Indonesian history. More about the novel: here.

ambigram: road.via.jalan

 'Road' in English, Italian and Malay.

reflection: loyal

 

 ambigram: faisal.tehrani

Faisal Tehrani.

 reflection: brotherhood
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Conceptualized while burning midnight oil, with brother Farid sleeping away soundly behind. We've grown up. Thanks for being the best brother anyone could ever have.
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Also: family ambigram

ambigram: angels&devils-impossibility

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ambigram: angels&devils-impossibility

ambigram: melayu

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ambigram: melayu
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Jojie and parents visited us this weekend. Filled the time challenging him in a lite version of NAC. One of the words posed: Melayu (Malay in Malay). He finished his in less than 20 minutes!

ambigram: chinese.garden

concept piece: tikus

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The calligraphic-style depiction of a 'tikus' (Malay for mouse), also formed by the letters spelling out 'tikus'.

nagfa's ambigram challenge February 2007

As promised, the NAC which binds all others, our effort to reward all past participants in previous NAC who has shown utmost commitments and dedication in sharing beautiful solutions. This is our small effort to extend NAC's objective of promoting unity among ambigram enthusiasts from countries around the world.

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nagfa presents the guest challenger for this month's NAC: John Langdon. Much has been said about this great artist, one of the foremost in the world of ambigrams, but maybe little has been said about this man's warmth, and respect to his fellow man. Through nagfa's own experiences communicating with him, we realised how much of a humble, down-to-earth person he is. Hats off to John Langdon.

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The word for NAC February 2007: 'singularity'

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Note: As a new guideline to encourage the quality of the submitted designs, each designer is only allowed to submit ONE design. And as this is a major instalment of NAC, we will extend the submission date to before 22 March 2007. Do spread the word around; we encourage and welcome more participants in this special challenge.

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Please submit design to: nagfa_ambigram@hotmail.com. Please also include your name (pseudonyms allowed), country of origin, and links (if any).

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Salam,

nagfa: naguib & fadilah

singapore

Welcome to nagfa.blogspot.com, the ambigramblog which brings you the monthly nagfa ambigram challenge (NAC). To start of the year, we have updated NAC, now focussing more in the unity-in-diversity aspect of ambigram designing. The phrase posed for NAC 2007 was: Country Living. From the entries, we hope to portray the diversed potentials of ambigrams. Enjoy..

nagfa - Naguib and Fadilah - wishes to thank all participants and visitors alike, for making this blog a meeting place for ambigram enthusiasts worldwide.

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amafirlian

(belgium)

robert maitland

(canada)

jordi

(catalunia)

txescu

(catalunia)

darren bent

(new zealand)

ruel
(philippines)

nagfa

(singapore)