Update, Wednesday April 12, 2006, 14:33 EDT: We’ve got a source where you can order these shirts! See the end of the article for details.
[vis Russereous] Here’s a T-shirt for those of you who are fans of Gödel, Escher, Bach, devotees of Scott Kim or have enough mileage to know that love and hate are often two sides of the same coin.
Update: Where You Can Get This Shirt
Thanks to Neatorama for the tip — the shirt is a creation of Rachel Plefger and you can order it online! The shirts are available in men’s and women’s sizes and in red-on-black or black-on-red.
Be Sure to Check Out Neatorama
Neatorama should be get more credit for the T-shirt story; they had posted about this two days ago!
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Where can I buy this shirt?!
The funny thing is that to me, the model’s face in the mirror looks more friendly than the other one. Something about the mouth.
Awesome. Any idea where we might be able to buy one?
I wish I knew where to get one. If I find out, I’ll post it!
so fucking american …….WHERE CAN I BUY ONE!!!?!?!!11 OMGOMGOGM!! ……stupid posers
my friend got one of these t-shirts about three years ago from France. i’ve been looking for it for a while – glad i wasn’t dreaming it existed.
The shirt is by rachel plefger. Original link:
http://www.madeindesign.com/prod-Psyshirt-love-femme-Pa-Design-refpa85t1l.html
isnt this similar to dan brown’s ambigram in da vinci code?
Precisely the information I was looking for, neatorama! Thanks for the heads-up!
do the small breasts come with the shirt?
pretty neat- like good art, you can see it in many ways. aside from the previously mentioned idea that love/hate are same sides of one coin, if you think about it, its saying everyone gets hate except yourself, kind of like how the world currently works and why we’re all f*cked by war, racism, etc. (in general).on the other hand it could be a type of meditation, if you take it as reminding yourself to transform your hate to love. i guess it wouldn’t work if it was the other way around, you certainly wouldn’t want to look at yourself and see hate. either way, definitely interesting for a tshirt- makes you think.
So fucking american… SUPPORT THE ARTIST ZOMG?!
1. The ambigrams were in Angels and Demons
2. Dan Brown didn’t make them
3. Ambigrams are symmetrical and read the same when rotated (or rather, half of it reads the other half when rotated). This is mirrored, not rotated
this is a similar idea to some designs my friend does:
http://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?op=articles&motive_id=1434531
your link leads to a page asking for username / password
not helpful
So fucking american, you say? You’re a pompous prick. And you dont even have the balls to sign your name to your ignorant comment.
i love how some of these guys want to put down Americans, but have to do it anonymously…. Big mouth and no spine to back it up. what a coward.
John Langdon made the ambigrams in The Da Vinci Code.
i want that girl she is sooo dirty
Thanks for the link & credit, Accordion Guy!
Does it say “love” if you turn it inside out as well?
Now you can buy this t-shirt from Tagville too!
Love T-shirt
Hate T-shirt
(Click “Change print” if you want another kind of t-shirt or another color of the print)
It’s available at http://www.uptoyoutoronto.com
Someone may have already set you straight on this but, in case they have not:
Ambigram n., – a word or words that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point.
“Reflected” is included as a different vantage point, but don’t take my word for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram
lovely article ever read
hmm….
Does anyone know how to translate from French to English so I CAN order the t-shirt?
Isn’t Men’s European medium equal to Men’s Small USA?
Anyone? anyone? anyone?
Hey amoeba. Imitation is the greatest form of flatery. Do you where any team jersey or colors of a sports team…poser!
I don’t know if wanting to buy the t-shirt is an american thing.
What do you want to do, assault them for what they said? and now since it was anonymous you are even more upset and call them a coward….THAT is very american.
I ordered this shirt from Tagville over 4 weeks ago and it still hasn’t arrived even though I was told it would only take 1-2 weeks. Now the customer service department wont reply to any of my e-mail requests and there isn’t a customer service number to contact them. Ahhhh!!!! RIP OFF!!
Hey, be attention, this logo was made long time ago and is a copy of a TM in clothing registered in Italy.Bye
Tagville don’t commercialize the love hate t-shirt because we have advise our legal office and stopped new orders
The website of the original TM LOVEHATE is http://www.lovehate.it Thank’s