{"id":3911,"date":"2015-11-15T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2015-11-15T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:41:13","slug":"beirut-nairobi-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2015\/11\/15\/beirut-nairobi-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Beirut, Nairobi, Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"we-are-one\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After I had posted my “Paris, City of Love<\/a>” design on FB, my friend Pilar Quezzaire\u00a0posted on my wall the following question:<\/p>\n

What about Beirut and Nairobi, Punya? Can you make one for them as well?<\/p>\n

In another posting she linked to the website\u00a0http:\/\/www.warsintheworld.com\/<\/a>\u00a0 and a quick glance through it shows just how much conflict there is in the world today – and how much of it we ignore (until something happens that hits closer to home).<\/p>\n

I felt the sting of Pilar’s criticism and got to work.\u00a0My first response was to create ambigrams for each of these cities names (Nairobi and Beirut – two sites that recently were hit with terrible, violent events) but that seemed inadequate, compared at least to the “Paris, City of Love” design.<\/p>\n

So hence the design above.<\/p>\n

Of course, one never stops at one solutions (variations on a theme being the crux of creativity)\u00a0…<\/p>\n

…\u00a0so here are two more.\u00a0The first builds on\u00a0 John Donne’s Meditation XVII, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions<\/em>, more commonly known as “No man is an island”<\/p>\n

\"asknotforwhomthebelltolls\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A second variation is simpler and maybe more poignant.<\/p>\n

\"silence\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, since I had created ambigram-designs\u00a0for Nairobi and Beirut, here they are, just for the record. Note that Nairobi and Beirut are both chain ambigrams mapped onto a circle, i.e. they can be read both at the top and bottom of the circle. Enjoy<\/p>\n

\"beirut-nairobi-paris\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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After I had posted my “Paris, City of Love” design on FB, my friend Pilar Quezzaire\u00a0posted on my wall the following question: What about Beirut and Nairobi, Punya? Can you make one for them as well? In another posting she linked to the website\u00a0http:\/\/www.warsintheworld.com\/\u00a0 and a quick glance through it shows just how much conflict […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,30,46,10,11,37,15,29,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}