Enter Pouya Ahmadi’s black and white poetic newspaper with grace

We are hardcore fans of Pouya Ahmadi, this award-winning graphic designer and art director based in Chicago who is having a great time bringing East and West together under his guidance.

Working in the cultural and social field, collaborating with art/culture institutions and small businesses developing brand identities, printed matter, and publications Ahmadi’s newspaper for Festival of Poets Theatre is a beautiful, bold, black and white project which brings the words into the limelight.

“Poets theater is a genre of porous borders, one that emerges about the same time, and involving many of the same artists, as performance art, performance poetry (“spoken word”), conceptual and “intermedia” art. But poets have long been playwrights, either primarily (Sophocles, Shakespeare) or as a platform for postmodern literary experimentation (the operas and page plays of Gertrude Stein, for example)” writes the Swiss-educated Chicago-based graphic designer, writer, and educator.

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