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). He can be contacted via josh (at) justseeds.org
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Alejandra is a 22 year-old lesbian from El Salvador who came to the US seeking asylum due to persecution for her sexual orientation. Since arriving in the US, she’s been…
This week I thought I would just round up some of the cooler communist covers I’ve amassed over the past handful of years. It’s a nice collection, with material from…
It’s been amazing to see the involvement of Justseeds artists in the organizing, labor, and image generation at the large-scale art builds happening in Wisconsin around immigration and California around…
I’m excited to be included in this exhibition currently up at the Foreman Gallery at Hartwick College. Curated by Richard Barlow, Telling Tales: Illustration, Narrative, Communication is an eclectic group show…
About a month ago I came across a clutch of these great old anti-communist pamphlets at Book Thug Nation. Touted as the “Democracy versus Communism Series,” they are an amazing…
I’ve been on hiatus from this book blog for about six months, but I’m going to try to start posting new entries again, although time will likely only allow one…
Cleo Barnett, the Deputy Director of Amplifier Foundation, recently invited a number of Justseeds artists to participate in a migration-themed exhibition she curated at Design In Public in Seattle. The…
Last year was the 50th anniversary of the global revolt of 1968, and the events of May and June 1968 in Paris, in particular. One of the most enduring legacies…
The publisher of our Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, PM Press, is having a big sale this month, where you can get 40% off all issues…
This past Sunday I organized (along with Monica and Interference Archive’s Radical Playdate) a kids flag making workshop in connection with For Which It Stands, an exhibition at the Old…
Our friends at AK Press just let us know that there are still about 20 Sue Coe prints that are available FREE with a pre-order of Coe’s new book Zooicide!…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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….
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…