Glyphs

We think of socius labs as an experimental intelligence lab, running experiments across disciplines, as long as they keep circling the question of what intelligence is and how it shows itself.

Glyphs is one of those experiments, the one about language, and we built it from socius's own visual identity (e.g., the rounded strokes and arcs in our logo and across our sites). Making these patterns into a language was somewhat natural, because people kept telling us they looked like writing. Some saw Korean, some oracle-bone script, some an ancient alphabet they couldn't quite place. After all, language, to us, is the repetition of finite symbols within a game of rules.

So we experimented with turning the patterns into a language. These are our first attempts at it. On this page, you can mint your name into a single glyph, a mark that stands for you; or fold a sentence into an encrypted message, scattered across three pieces that mean nothing apart and everything together.