Journal Safar #2

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: Animals

Issue #2 of Journal Safar is on animals. Highlights include optical play and composite in Matt Reeves' Dawn of The Planet Of The Apes, faceless food VS. food with a face, and a visual journey through the mythical saviour Simurgh from Islamic paintings. Works responding to myth, djinns, and taxidermy are throughout.  

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