The sixteenth of the Endangered Species Murals is finished! This big wall is located near the Convention Center in downtown El Paso, Texas, and features five endangered species from the...
Animal X-ing/Cars Stop! Campbell Hall, NY People Xing/Cars Stop! Campbell Hall, NY
This past week my daughter and I visited fellow Justseeds artist Chip Thomas on the Navajo Reservation. We traveled there for multiple reasons: to spend time with Chip, to see...
Slow Down! Fawn, Rosendale, NY
People create all sorts of signage and barriers when its time for block parties. Park Slope, Brooklyn
I was surprised to stumble on this really nicely designed book by and about the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, published in 1971 by Collier, a major publishing house. It’s...
No More Pollution Please Overflows to the Gowanus Canal Brooklyn, NY August 15, 2018 Most of NYC’s 150 year old sewage system is combined with stormwater runoff, according to Swim...
Much of my art is created for use by activist organizations, most of it is individually created, things like poster designs, block prints or etchings. I’m happy in this work....
Park Slope, Brooklyn. DIYDPW is a frequent blog post highlighting global examples of Do It Yourself Department of Public Works projects. These are defined as any examples of municipal signage...
The world entered the nuclear age with the A-bombing of Hiroshima at 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945. Ever since then, there has been a growing desire by humankind for...
I’ve spent the last six days on the Pacific Ocean, in transit from San Diego, CA to Astoria, OR aboard the R/V Falkor, the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s big research vessel....
I found this amazing Canadian manual for printmaker safety earlier this year. The design is by Karen Patkau, and wonderfully captures the kind of overlap I find so visually enjoyable...
This is the first in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in...
I excited that I’ve just had a piece I wrote on the social and design histories of Heinemann’s African Writers Series published on the Lapham’s Quarterly website. I’m planning on...
From the mid-1990s through the early 2000s, young radicals in the U.S. really only had one choice for a day planner, the Slingshot Organizer. I always had a love/hate relationship...
Friend of Justeeds and Interference Archive Amanda Priebe shared two designs showing solidarity with the prisoner strike on August 21, 2018. You can download printable versions from our Graphics page....
I’ve long been a fan of German photomontagist John Heartfield. His political montage work for publications like AIZ is often reproduced, and has been collected in a number of editions,...
A week ago, five of us from Milwaukee traveled up to Minneapolis to work on a two-day art build during the NEA (National Education Association) Conference on Racial and Social...
I picked up this book in Portland, OR a couple years back. I’ve been an Alex La Guma fan since reading his slow-burning yet mesmerizing anti-apartheid struggle novel, In the...
“They saw this region as affected by a colonial influence from the larger urban areas, extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not giving anything...
I picked up this book while browsing Mother Foucault’s Bookshop in Portland, OR with Alec and Katie a couple years back. It was a little pricey for something I’ll never...
The new Justseeds Poor People’s Campaign portfolio is just one example of artists getting involved with this self proclaimed “new and unsettling force.” Over the past several weeks the campaign...
Last month justseeds artist, Jess X. Snow, and friends Layqa Nuna Yawar and Tani Ikeda created “A Monument for Survival”–a mural installation for @werise_la for the movement Survivor Love Letter. #Survivorloveletter...
In order to not wait months between posts, I’m going to just share some individual books I’ve picked up over the last couple years that are extraordinary in some way....
The fifteenth Endangered Species Mural is complete! This one is located on the corner of Washington and Tenth streets in the small town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, at the southern...
from the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NYC (thanks Josh!) Looking back over the thumbnails on the DIYDPW blog channel page of all of these posts over the last few...
From the end of April through June, the French left daily newspaper l’Humanité has been publishing a full color political poster in each issue. The poster project is the work...
Earlier this year I was humbled to get the chance to interview the amazing political artist Jane Norling. One powerful project Jane was involved in was the San Francisco based...
Three of the most significant social realist printmakers working in the US in the second half of the 20th Century were Leonard Baskin, Antonio Frasconi, and Ben Shahn. While all...
I’d like to share an inspiring new documentary film with you. The film is called, “Our Bodies Our Doctors” a feature-length film that tells the rarely-discussed story of what it...
I left Portland at about eight o’clock on a Thursday night, after a cruise through the art shows downtown. The sun had set by the time I reached Celilo Park,...
“Until there is equal accountability for murder, it is totally fair to KILL COPS.” Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan, NY April 26, 2018 Police are rarely charged even less convicted of murder...
Gardening is a large part of my practice from April through November. We’ve got a greenhouse where we have maintained rosemary through the winter to harvest for homemade bread, and...
While there is a fair amount of literature out there on the “paperback revolution” and the sea change in publications created by the Pocket Books imprint in the US (founded...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
Hey! I wanted to share with you some information about a great project from two friends of mine, please support it if you can: Up on the Mountain is...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
Erin Yanke and I completed the first two episodes a new podcast about harm reduction called Bright Spark. With this podcast we will focus on people doing creative work in...
For well over a hundred years, peeps around the world have called in sick and caused some major fucking rukus on May Day. From Chile to France, ninjas take the...
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-beehive#/ “I began to realise that if I was getting into so much trouble—owning my own house and a newspaper—what hope would a pensioner have?” Juanita Nielsen, 1973. The Beehive will tell...