She would, as she explains in the mini-dictionary of a catalog to her fantastic, phantasmagorical new show, Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems, at ArtCenter South’s Hoffmitz Milken Center for ...

This type of cipher is known as a pig-pen cipher and each symbol relates to a position in a pre-prepared grid. ... It used a Caesar cipher that shifted the letters 13 places along the alphabet.

Over 20 different international artists and typographers contribute to the show, creating scripts that sometimes seem familiar — Farsi-like, for instance — and sometimes unreal: letters all ...

ArtCenter’s Lavinia Lascaris invented an entire secret language of her own when she was an 8-year-old girl growing up in Athens. Except she wouldn’t call what she did — replacing each of the 24 ...