Pentagram Gets Cryptic with Online Codebook

Last holiday season, we received a puzzling treat from our friends at Pentagram: Decipher, a small olive green book of 14 cryptograms. Designed by Pentagram partner Harry Pearce and Jason Ching, the book contains a series of codes — here a page of numbered polygons, there a thicket of seemingly nonsensical text — each with a cryptic clue (e.g., “Just in the nick of time.”). Thwarted as we were to convey the book’s contents in a blog post, we were thrilled to hear from Michael Bierut that after five months of work, Decipher is now