My ambigram design in Brain Games TV show

by | Wednesday, February 11, 2015

I am a huge fan of the show Brain Games on the National Geographic channel. Brain Games focuses on the workings of the brain and the reasons we do what we do. The show is quite creative about how they explain ideas, using a range of techniques games, visual illusions and in-house field experiments.

Imagine my surprise and pleasure to find out that they wanted to use one of my designs (the Good-Evil oscillation ambigram) for one of their shows on Morality. You can watch the part of the episode where my design is used below:

 

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