New ambigram: Motivation

by | Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Just as the subject line says, new ambigram design this time for the word “motivation”

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Fact / Fiction, ambigram

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Tipping point for online learning?

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By the numbers

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GeoGreeting!

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Total eclipse of the sun: An experiment with visual AI

Total eclipse of the sun: An experiment with visual AI

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TPACK commercial, UPS/Whiteboard version

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A different vision of the web

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Academic novels

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