Acerca de Plan BEY
Plan BEY is an artisan-publisher and design space in Beirut’s Mar Mikhael, opened in December 2010 by Karma Tohmé and Tony Sfeir. The name is a wordplay, joining “Plan B” with BEY, the airport code and shorthand for Beirut, and it captures the spirit of the place: creative, resourceful and rooted in the city. Part publisher, part print studio, part shop, Plan BEY has become a fixture of Beirut’s independent design scene.
El catálogo es amplio y deliberadamente artesanal. Plan BEY produce grabados de edición limitada, libros de artista, tarjetas de felicitación, vinilos decorativos y objetos de diseño, con técnicas tradicionales y de archivo como la serigrafía, la tipografía en relieve (letterpress), el offset y la impresión de inyección de tinta de calidad archivo. Lejos de trabajar de forma aislada, el estudio colabora con artistas libaneses y de la región y convierte su obra en objetos táctiles y coleccionables. El resultado es un conjunto de trabajos guiado por el diseño y marcadamente local, que celebra Beirut y la región a través del papel y la impresión.
Por qué Plan BEY es importante
Plan BEY matters because it gives Lebanese and regional artists a physical platform and keeps traditional print crafts alive in the process. By producing limited-edition prints and artist books through silkscreen, letterpress, offset and archival inkjet, the studio treats printing as an art form rather than a commodity, and its collaborations turn local creativity into objects people can own and share. Since opening in Mar Mikhael in 2010, it has helped anchor Beirut’s independent design and publishing community. For anyone seeking meaningful, made-in-Lebanon stationery and art, Plan BEY is a cultural landmark as much as a shop.