Safar, meaning travel in Arabic, is a bilingual design and visual culture journal published from Beirut. The magazine answers to the lack of critical writings on design in the global south, and it works towards acknowledging designers as active agents of cultural production.
Publications
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Migrations
an exploration of how migrations affect change in the visual realm, ft. creators Elia Suleiman, Miranda July, and Myriam Boulos -
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Nostalgia
a meditation on nostalgia based in regional visual culture, ft. artists Jonathan Barnbrook, Maurizio Cattelan, and RuPaul -
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Power
power is often invisible, intangible: this issue explores its manifestations in the visual realm ft. Alex Shams, Michael Bierut -
