At Boston University, Safoura Rafeizadeh is an associate professor at the College of Communication, following seven years as assistant professor at the College of Fine Arts. She has taught graphic design, editorial design, typography, and computer graphics courses. Professor Rafeizadeh is the founder of Chapar Graphic Design Studio, where she continues to design, consult, and art direct. She has also worked as Art Director at Porras and Lawlor Associates, and Senior Art Director with JWG Associates. Professor Rafeizadeh’s work has been exhibited in Boston and in Los Angeles, as she pursues her passion in designing with poetry. Safoura holds BFA and MFA degrees, awarded as a Dean's Scholar, majoring in graphic design. Her master's thesis was a book and poster series of bilingual typographic poetry.

 The Size of One Leaf

Forests and parks offer us an emotional connection to the Earth. City life surrounds and dominates us. This limits our perspective and results in a swing between the contradictory senses of arrogance of power and poverty of dignity. The organic and democratic essence of forests and parks, these slices of heaven, has unique balancing effects.

As a graphic designer with interest in poetry, I intertwine the two. Poets have long documented our connection to nature. Poetry depicts the significance, emotional impact, and symbolic, metaphoric role of forests and parks, in our lives and our universe.

The humanist impact of forests and parks makes them a solace as well as a pleasure ground. With their democratic nature, rich and poor coexist. Forests and parks have also been a refuge.