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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Welcome, finally, to the last installment on the book covers of Ben Shahn. Although this is the post I’m the least invested in, somehow it’s the one that has taken…
Know Thy Enemy.
A Lesser of Two Evils…
Interference Archive is included in the current exhibition Agitprop! in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. I have to say that the show is…
This week is the third installment of my Judging Books by Their Covers posts on the design work of Ben Shahn. For more on Shahn, and to see the other…
Welcome to the second week of my Ben Shahn book cover posts. You can check out week one, my stroll through the covers Shahn designed in the 1950s and 60s…
Inkworks, one of the longest running movement print shops in the US, recently closed. Steven Heller wrote nice obit., and short interview with original collective member Lincoln Cushing, on Print…
ArtSlant and the Night Library just published a cool piece featuring Interference Archive. Seven volunteers of the collective chose items in the archive that they felt spoke to the issue…
Ben Shahn is one of the artists most influential to many members of Justseeds. He was a Lithuanian immigrant who apprenticed as a lithographer before becoming a master of multiple…
I wasn’t able to pull together a Judging Books by Their Covers post this week, in part because I’m guest posting all week on the Our Comics, Ourselves tumblr site!…
Back in December the Ace Hotel in New York invited Interference Archive to fill a display case in their lobby. We decided we wanted to use the opportunity to place…
Last month I got to give a talk at the Maine College of Art in Portland, which was great in and of itself, and had the added bonus of giving…
The University of Connecticut recently acquired a complete set of the Celebrate People’s History Posters, and already has them on display! They’re up at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center…
This week I’m going to close out my sub-series on Small Press Africa with sixteen books from Southern Africa. I hope people have enjoyed checking these books out as much…
Librarians and Archivists With Palestine (LAP) is co-sponsoring a panel on Palestinian libraries at this year’s American Library Association (ALA) conference in Orlando, Florida June 23-28 2016. They are working…
Our friend Jamaa Al-Yad in Beirut just launched a new project: “Boycott, Divest, Sanction: On Campus” Originally designed for a campaign at the American University of Beirut, they’ve uploaded…
Our friend Charles at Eberhardt Press (who prints the fabulous Justseeds Organizers each year, and the new 3-Year Garden Journal) just sent me a small box of cool notebooks he…
This week we’re still in East Africa, with a focus on the dual publishers East African Literature Bureau and Kenya Literature Bureau. In an interesting turn, the Kenya Literature Bureau…
Sam Gould, one of the organizers of a new community art space and print shop in Minneapolis called Beyond Repair, recently asked me if I would help launch their new…
Here’s Interference Archive’s youngest volunteer (and Justseeds’ newest sprout) Asa Michigan MacPhee showing off the awesome new book/catalog that came out of the “Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation…