Pantea Amin Tofangchi
Art Director
Pantea Amin Tofangchi is graphic designer by profession and a writer by heart. She grew up counting swallows, pomegranate, persimmon, magnolia and acacia trees along with missiles and bombs. She was eight when the Iran-Iraq war started and a teenager when it ended. It wasn’t until she immigrated to the US, though, that she realized how much the war had affected her, not the things that are said and shown about wars, but those that aren’t. Ironically, that describes poetry and graphic design, too: the most important part is often left unstated, the white space, the silver area that is left for anticipation, a white spark of hope that hugs each letter and shape. As Passager’s art director, she said, she “embraces each word, one letter at a time, until they become not just a book, but a home to hold all the wisdom and creativity that Passager writers have to offer.”
