01Three Over Four
Archival street photography meets expressive Arabic lettering in a bold, layered composition.
Mixed media poster Independent artist · Available worldwide
Artworks made
from fragments..
Collage, mixed media and digital experiments—assembling found textures, graphic forms and unlikely ideas into new visual worlds.
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COLLAGE ✦ MIXED MEDIA ✦ DIGITAL ART ✦ GRAPHIC EXPERIMENTS ✦ COLLAGE ✦ MIXED MEDIA ✦ DIGITAL ART ✦ GRAPHIC EXPERIMENTS ✦
01 / Featured work
Three visual stories,
closely selected.
01
02Two Over Three
Domestic ornament and a familiar ritual are recast through saturated color, texture and Arabic type.
Mixed media poster
03Bayti
An architectural collage about belonging, generosity and the intimate visual memory of home.
Digital collage02 / Reports
Research,
made visible.
Selected report covers and publications shaped through editorial and visual direction.
Report 01 · 2022
Macroeconomy
The Democratic Economy
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Report 02 · 2021
Solidarity Economy Enterprises
Towards a Democratic Economy
Read report ↗03
Another report will join this archive soon.
Special story / 01
03 / The story behind the artwork
On This Earth
The poster builds a visual home from symbols held across generations: embroidered geometry, the rhythm of the keffiyeh, a rising sun, watchful eyes and the unmistakable silhouette of Palestine.
Rather than illustrating a place from a distance, the work frames it through memory. Heritage becomes architecture; pattern becomes landscape; a familiar line of poetry becomes a declaration of tenderness, presence and the right to imagine life.
Digital illustration · Art print04 / Mental health initiative
Instagram ↗HOW ARE YOU
PROJECT
A mental health campaign led in Lebanon—created to make room for honest conversation, emotional check-ins and the simple, necessary act of asking: how are you, really?
Campaign direction · Lebanon
05 / Work in partnership with...
Selected commissions and cultural collaborationsCOLLAB
MDLBEAST
A surreal city scene bringing archival figures, urban memory and a dreamlike pink sky into one shared visual world.
Collaborative poster · Digital collageBaalbek Reborn
× Ministry of Tourism
A cultural campaign for the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism, bringing Baalbek’s monumental architecture into a contemporary collage language of sunlight, memory and renewal.
Lebanese Ministry of Tourism · Campaign artwork
More partnerships will join this space soon.
06 / Heritage studies
Stamps inspired
by Arab heritage.
A collected board reimagining archival postage from across the Arab world through color, texture and contemporary graphic intervention.
07 / Typography posters
Words as image.
Image as voice.
An expanding series where Arabic lettering, found phrases and ornamental surfaces become the architecture of each poster.
Layered Arabic lettering drifts across a field of ornamental memory.
A bilingual promise of spring framed by olives and vivid pattern.
Cinema, calligraphy and Damascene ornament meet in theatrical pink.
A typographic composition where longing moves through color and gesture.
08 / About the artist
Mostafa Olwan is an independent collage and digital media artist.
His work draws from Arabic music, popular cinema, archival photography, typography, domestic ornament and the visual memory of cities.
Working between image and language, Mostafa transforms shared cultural fragments into vivid contemporary stories—playful, nostalgic and unmistakably alive.
09 / Directory studio
More work:
A living archive of posters, experiments and visual notes.
Smoke
Mixed media · 01
A cinematic portrait suspended between newspaper memory and quiet defiance.
Three Over Four II
Digital collage · 02
A playful visual proverb shaped by floral lenses and archival texture.
Beirut
Digital collage · 03
The city watches back through a sky crowded with hand-drawn eyes.
Arab in Exile
Graphic poster · 04
Bold Arabic type turns displacement into a loud, patterned declaration.
Laww
Digital collage · 05
A postage-stamp apparition crosses an everyday city street.
Habbeit-ha / حبيتها
Graphic poster · 06
A close-up portrait meets the charged language of an unforgettable song.
Sawfa Talhou / سوف تلهو
Digital collage · 07
Old cinema, urban architecture and vivid color share one theatrical scene.
Amana Ya Dunia
Digital collage · 08
A joyful leap across a city built from memory, rhythm and painted fragments.
Eleutheria
Digital collage · 09
A seaside drive through Beirut, tinted with nostalgia and imagined freedom.
Free Out of Free
Digital collage · 10
An inverted city and oversized portrait turn freedom into a shifting viewpoint.
Palestine in Poster
Graphic poster · 11
A visual study of place, resistance and the enduring language of the poster.