Journal Safar #3

Journal Safar is bilingual design and visual culture journal published in Beirut. The name Safar is Arabic for travel, and it refers to notions of communication, especially across disciplinal, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. Safar was created to remedy the scarcity of critical writings on design in the global south, and to acknowledge designers as active agents of cultural production.

Inside this issue: Obsession

Issue #3 of Journal Safar is on obsession: profound details, intrusions, fixations, what follows, and what can't be forgotten. Highlights include an excavation of Arabic book design and a deconstructions of the new Lebanese passport design. Works responding to systems of longing, desire, insecurity, and attention are throughout. 

Beirut, Lebanon; 24x33cm; 208 pages; Softcover; 2017; Bilingual in English and Arabic, Annually