SHAKLOH is a free monthly PDF entirely visual magazine acting as a space of expression and promotion for Arab artists, designers, calligraphers, typographers, and photographers. Each issue is announced with a theme and contributing artists are required to create a visual in accordance with that theme.
The word "shakloh" is Arabic for "looks like." Artists create what the announced theme "looks like" in their heads, and let it fly on the World Wide Web for all to download and experience. SHAKLOH is a chance for Arab artists to work outside the confinements of commercial work-for-hire, to speak their minds, dreams, and ideologies in the one language unconfined by geographical, political, cultural, or racial boundaries; visual art, and have it all exposed to the world. |