Brooklyn, NY, United States
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY (InterferenceArchive.org). MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade (AntumbraDesign.org).
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For this week’s post I thought we could stay in Africa, but focus on an author instead of a publisher. Or maybe a combination of the two. One of the…
First, welcome to my new Judging Books by Their Covers blog channel on Justseeds.org! I’m really excited to relaunch the series on our new site, which not only looks 200%…
We’re excited to get some press for our recent exhibition Armed by Design. You can read more at The Guardian.
September 16–November 29, 2015 Opening Wednesday Sept. 16, 7–10pm Interference Archive, 131 8th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 Interference Archive presents Armed By Design/El Diseño a las Armas: Posters and Publications…
I’m working on a big project to celebrate 100 poster designs printed in the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series over the past eighteen years. I’m working with Booklyn to put…
The American Friends Service Committee has been putting together cool traveling exhibitions of political posters (often in concert with the Center for the Study of Political Graphics) over the past…
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Doors open 7pm Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn (NOT AT INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE!) $5 – $10 (sliding scale)** As part of the Interference Archive’s if a…
Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War Ten years of fighting for peace & justice One Night Only! Thursday August 13th, 2015 6PM – 10PM Mullowney Printing 931 Treat…
“Support James Risen and Freedom of the Press.”
No in-depth analysis this week, but a peek at one really cool book, inside and out. Frances Kay’s This—is Grenada is a beautiful self-published travel book from 1966. After skimming…
“Stomp Out the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”
First off, we’ve been hard at work on a brand new Justseeds website, which will vastly transform the experience of both the posting and reading of blog entries like these….
“Frack ‘Quakes.”
“Cancel US–Peru Free Trade Agreement.”
A couple weeks back Chris Stain and I (Josh MacPhee) painted a new mural at Houston and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan for Lower East Side History Month. It was great…
“Je Suis Charlie.”
“Charlie Hebdo.”
Print & Politics: Lincoln Cushing & Favianna Rodriguez Wednesday April 29, 7pm Interference Archive 131 8th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 A evening of discussion about print and politics, with Lincoln…
“Gratitude Attitude.”
Back in 2012 I slide an eye-catching spine off the shelf at a bookstore in Boston and. It was an edition of Arnošt Lustig’s Diamonds in the Night I had…