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Development of our script was greatly influenced by various historical figures. The fall of the Roman Empire, the Migration period or Reformation had a huge impact on the development of our writing. The changes in Latin script are closely related to historical events. I am a historian and I see the development of Latin script from the perspective of history. 3) You have a background in history, did that help with your calligraphy passion or was that completely separate? Another sphere in which the machine displaced man. Unfortunately, today this sphere has been supplanted by printing. For over 15 years I wrote huge price sheets by hand using ink and felt flat markers. After graduation, I started working in Castorama, where I am today. It was a hobby job supporting the local music scene and I have never taken it seriously.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single letterĢ) You create logos and tattoo designs, did you work in this area before you started making ambigrams? How do you combine this with your ‘main job?’Īs I mentioned I designed some logos for bands and zines.

I dedicate mornings to calligraphy when the whole house is asleep. In fact, in order to master the basics of calligraphy, regularity and consistency are necessary. There is a Latin sentence “Nulla dies sine linea” which means no day without a drawn line.

Today I teach classes at this branch but the road to it was long and difficult.

Fortunately, a branch of the Krakow School of Calligraphy operated in my city and I came under the wings of the outstanding calligrapher Aleksandra Ćwikowska vel Nibme, who led me into the world of written letters. I also knew that a better understanding of the structure of letters would improve the construction of my ambigrams. I didn’t have time but I was hungry for creation. A picture says more than a thousand words. I must admit that this coincided with the moment when my first son Eric appeared in the world.

I became seriously interested in calligraphy when I ran out of time to realize ambigrams. Earlier in high school I designed logos for some bands. This was my first serious contact with the letters.

At that time Łódź was a multicultural city where Polish, German, Jewish and Russian cultures were mixed. I analyzed nineteenth-century inscriptions from Łódź cemeteries. It is a science dealing with inscriptions carved in stone. I studied history, but I specialized in the auxiliary field of this science: epigraphy. Calligraphy is a kind of culmination of my interests. I became interested in calligraphy very late, although all my life revolved around letters. 1) At what stage in your life did you get interested in calligraphy? Did you get a formal education in the area? His work can be found on his Polish language blog called Signum & Imago and his instagram. Our first interview will be with Daniel Dostal, best known in the ambigram world for working on the Flipscript Fyrewater and WyndStorm fonts. Part of this has been addressed by some of our posts and tutorials, but we also want to branch out to known ambigram artists to talk about their experiences in the field, their personal lives and the process of making ambigrams. As you may have noticed, here at MakeAmbigrams we are interested in the art of making ambigrams, generating ambigrams and their history.