Even the Worms…
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Josh MacPhee
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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AnarchismAnti-capitalismAnti-warCulture & MediaGlobal SolidarityHistoryHousing & CitiesLaborPolice & PrisonsRacial JusticeSocial Movements Associated Projects
Interference Archive, 242: Mbari Publishing, Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture
PTSD (Captain America)
$20
Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
$19.95
Pound the Pavement #11
$20
VOTE
$20
Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
$10
Feet on the Ground 2
$50
Celebrate People’s History Box Set
$1200
Attica
$25
Signal:03
$14.95
Fukushima
$250
US Military Interventions Since WWII
$10
____ of the World, Unite!
$100
Armed by Design/El Diseño a las Armas
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
$20
Resourced
Migration Now!
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
$24
March
$10
Cut and Paint #2
$4
Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
Justseeds Collaboration
$10
Fuck Work
$10
Palestine Lives
$40
Signal Combo Pack
$40
No Fence Uncut
$25
Celebrando 15 Años de Lucha Zapatista
$25
All Together Now!
Drew Cameron/Combat Paper & Josh MacPhee
$75
Book Beasts
$30
Pilot TV
$25
Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War Broadsheet
Justseeds Collaboration
$12
People’s Climate March!
$10
We’ve Got Nothing to Lose But Our _____
$100
Ghost of the Liberty Street Church
$20
2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair
$25
LA Anarchist Bookfair 2012
$15
Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
$1
Imaging Apartheid: Toward Freedom—Palestine
$15
No Wall Unclimbed
$25
Signs of Change
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
$28
Signal:04
$13
Feet on the Ground
$20
Exhausted
$20
242: Mbari Publishing
September 12, 2016
For years I’ve been hunting down issues of Black Orpheus (which I featured in my last post, #241), and books from it’s spin-off publishing-wing Mbari. I honestly can’t remember how…
Certain Days 2017
August 31, 2016
2017 sees the release of the 16th annual Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. Many Justseeds’ artists have contributed art to the calendar over the years, this year includes…
Help Reprint War In the Neighborhood
August 30, 2016
After being out of print for almost 20 years, Ad Astra Comics is reprinting Seth Tobocman’s seminal Lower East Side squatter graphic novel War in the Neighborhood. I remember getting…
241: Black Orpheus
August 29, 2016
Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature is likely the most important literary journal to emerge out of Africa, and one of the most important in the world…
Pre-Order Mobile Print Power: Soñamos Sentirnos Libres Book
August 18, 2016
Since May, Interference Archive has been hosting an exhibition of the collaborative work of Mobile Print Power (MPP). MPP is a mobile screen printing collective largely made up of immigrant-youth…
Protests in Print at NYPL
August 15, 2016
Many Justseeds-related publications are included in the current “flash exhibition” Protests in Print at the New York Public Library. Signal, the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine zine, and some Interference…
Signal:05 Out Now!
August 2, 2016
Alec and I are very excited that our latest issue of Signal is back from the printer and available here on Justseeds! We made a little promotional animation/video, and hope…
Behind Design 02: Producing the City
July 19, 2016
So for this second installment of Behind Design, I thought I’d talk a bit about what went into my recent screenprint poster, Producing the City. Back in April, my friend…
240: Collier’s Af/Am Library
July 4, 2016
While collecting books from the African Writers Series published by Heinemann (I’ll be featuring those books in a future post), I stumbled upon what I first thought was a small…
Agitadores de Conciencia
June 30, 2016
I’m excited to have a number of posters in a new exhibition entitled Agitadores de Conciencia/Agitators of Conscience. Organized by Ofelio Serpa, the show is currently on display at the…
Beyond Prisons Posters
June 29, 2016
At the end of March I was contacted by Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation about participating in a project he was putting together—an experiment in mass production and distribution…
Behind Design 01: Perspectives #29
June 28, 2016
I’ve been wanting to start this up for awhile, but finally pulled together a little time to do it! “Behind Design” will hopefully be a new blog post series about…
239: Ravan Books
June 27, 2016
This week’s focus is on the South African published house Ravan Press, which was founded in 1972 by Peter Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé. On second glance, you’ll…
238: “Power, Fists, Guns, Books: Black Power & Book Cover Design”
June 13, 2016
For months I’ve been working on a complete rewrite of the post I originally did here about the design of the book Black Power, and other related Civil Rights-era publications…
237: Updates
June 6, 2016
This week I don’t have a new focus. Instead I’ve gone back into a number of old posts and corrected mistakes, improved the writing, added new covers, and/or added better…
Hidden Forces: The Kansas People’s History Project
May 26, 2016
I’m excited to be headed to Lawrence, KS tomorrow to talk at the launch of the Kansas People’s History Project, a new poster endeavor loosely modeled on my Celebrate People’s…
236: Editorial Pueblo y Educación
May 16, 2016
This week we find ourselves a decent distance from Ben Shahn. We’re looking at Cuba, actually, and in particular a really beautiful set of saddle-stitched publications put out by Editorial…
235: Ben Shahn, part IV
May 9, 2016
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…
Impeach Freights/Graf 47
May 3, 2016
Know Thy Enemy.
Impeach Freights/Graf 46
April 26, 2016
A Lesser of Two Evils…
Mountain Top Removal
Education Costs Way Less Than Prison
Prisons Don’t Work
Occupy Poster Download: Dancing Dollars
Bars 1
Mayday March
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 4.50 MB
Format: PDF
Which Side Are You On?
All Borders Are Temporary
$40
Apartheid IsReal
$25
Rebirth
Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Justseeds Collaboration
Voices From Outside: Critical Resistance
Street Stencils #2
Chemicals Make Our Lives Better
$1
