250 million years ago an extinction event wiped out 95% of all species on Earth, the greatest such winnowing ever to occur. It’s referred to as the Permian/Triassic extinction, or...

Here are a couple great Dashiell Hammett novellas published in Poland by Iskry in 1987 and ’88. Although the cover designs (by Wiesław Rosocha) are not as accomplished as many...

I’m in Medellín, Colombia, for a six week residency at Casa Tres Patios, an arts center connected to the University of Antioquia. I’m here with my partner Erica Thomas, and...

A quick book blog this week. I found this book on the street a couple months back, and am pretty impressed with the 1970s whole book design, channeling high modernist...

<3 > $ Love is greater than money Havana, Cuba. February 2019.

sin ser lo que buscabas, terminaste siendo todo lo que necesito/“without being what I was looking for, you ended up being what I needed” Havana, Cuba. February 2019.

For the next six weeks I’ll be in Medellin, Colombia, working with the people at Fundación Casa Tres Patios to create some projects with ex-fighters of the FARC, the Revolutionary...

The Iraq War and the “weapons of mass destruction” lies it was based on have long faded from the headlines. The resulting death, destruction and destabilization, however, are still a...

PGCEA Art Build Final from MTEA Union on Vimeo. Here is a video by Joe Brusky documenting the recent PGCEA (Prince George County Education Association) art build in Maryland. PGCEA...

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...

The 20th of the Endangered Species murals is finished, this time in Yuma Arizona on the campus of Arizona Western College. This installment features the Sonoran Pronghorn, smallest and fastest...

parking space saver, Bloomfield neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA

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...

Pittsburgh: who cleans the 40th Street Bridge’s sidewalks? Most DIYDPW posts focus on signage, but every once in awhile we find a human filling in a vacant municipal role… Dani...

Check out this video by Joe Brusky. It features an interview with Jasmene Miranda – an Oakland public school – during the OEA (Oakland Education Association) art build from January...

There is power in a union. There is power in the solidarity between teachers, students, and parents, and there is power in an art build. From January 18th to 20th...

Portland, Oregon (thanks Icky!)

Thanks to the generous donation from amazing artists like Ehren Tool, Jesse Albrecht, Yvette M. Pino, Sarah Seamstress, Josh MacPhee, Melanie Cervantes, Eric J. Garcia, Dan S Wang, Amber Hoy,...

“To be honest, I carry all of them with me now. I’ve spent as many hours studying their features as I did studying their histories, and I feel a responsibility...

The incoming tide of fascism in Brazil is breaking on the shores of Rio. The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro shut down today an art exhibit at...

I recently finished a residency at the Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in eastern Tennessee. This was different from the residencies I normally do- instead of working on print...

January 1st 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional-Zapatista Army for National Liberation) uprising in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. Their struggle for...

I came across this on Twitter last week: a newly compiled version of Ed Mead’s 80’s text adventure “The Warden Game“. Ed was a member of working-class anticapitalist urban guerrilla...

Spruce St Kingston, NY

SLOW Chester, NY

There is power in a union. There is power in solidarity. And there is power in art. Last weekend these themes were on full display during a three-day art build...

Freedom. Brooklyn, October 2015. Sometimes, not on the wall, but read on the ground. Was someone writing their name? Or is the land screaming to be liberated?!

No Parking On Sidewalk Hoyt St, Brooklyn, NY

Communism is just a sticker away England. October 27, 2013

 If you’ve found yourself at the levers of a small, even tiny, community project or non-profit, you’ve probably had to confront the uncomfortable reality of needing to pump people...

Tré Seals is a designer who is working to create fonts out of the letters on Civil Rights era protest signs. I interviewed him via email. How did you get...

The painful reality of this political moment is personal for many of us. As Kavanaugh becomes our new Supreme Court justice, let the survivors of the world know that not...

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...

GO OUT SIDE —- PLAY Williamsburg, NY July 21, 2018