Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal  features exclusive works from a diverse collection of emerging and established writers and artists whose colorful pieces form a striking cross-genre collage of fluid symbols of the Lebanese psyche in poetry, prose, drama, and art. Housed in the American University of Beirut’s English Department, RR is edited and designed by a staff of faculty and students from both the Departments of English and Architecture and Design. RR presents the best of student and faculty writing and art at AUB as well as of writers and artists from a broad, even international, scope with a tangible connection to Lebanon. It defines its base as a Beirut publication in hopes of nurturing an evolving creative community that is equally willing to teach, learn, praise, and critique.

Handling both the Art Direction and the Layout Design of Issue 4: Trans-, a will to break with the previous issue’s schematics arose along with an aim to visually portray issue 4’s main theme: Trans-figuration, gression, etc…

From which a dynamic graphic system was created and shifted upon each category of artistic piece (fiction; non-fiction; drama; poetry; fine art…)