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). His most recent book is An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production. He can be contacted via josh (at) justseeds.org
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A small glimmer of hope and enjoyment arrived in the mail a little while back, a copy of the new political poster book by Jo Rippon and Amnesty International, The…
In early March I started posting daily political songs from records I have onto a new Instagram TV Channel. It’s called Polit-Groove, and I’m up to almost 50 songs at…
Covid-19 has made its way into prisons and jails throughout the country, there already stories emerging about sick guards bringing the virus in and bureaucrats covering it up. Jails and…
A Generation of Support Through the Bars – the 20th edition of the Certain Days calendar (more info HERE) The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective will be…
I’ve been involved in one capacity or another with the Screenprint Biennial since it’s inception in 2014, and encourage all screenprinters to respond to the call and participate in this…
I’m very excited that Laura Raicovich and Hyperallergic chose my new book, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, as one of their Top 25 Books of 2019! Here’s what they…
A new project has been launched by the international pan-Arab collective Jamaa al-Yad: “This project is based on a call for artwork from the Institut du Monde Arabe. The question…
I’m heading out on book tour for the first time in years! I’m so excited about my new book I wanted to get back in gear and travel and talk…
I was recently interviewed by design historian Steven Heller about my new book, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels. It’s been published on Design Observer, and is a quick and…
This has already made the rounds a bit, but in case you haven’t seen it, Dean Spade and the Big Door Brigade made this really neat animation about mutual aid….
PM Press is collecting pre-orders via Kickstarter to help print the new edition of the killer adbusting book Advertising Shits In Your Head (originally published in the UK by Dog…
A number of the collaborations that Justseeds members work on with social justice organizations get a fair amount of recognition, whether it’s the art builds that have been happening with…
These seem to be boom times for independent science fiction publishing. Never in my lifetime have I seen such an explosion in the efforts of small publishers printing and distribution…
I’m so excited that my new book An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is gathering steam. This book has been 4 years in the making, with two earlier editions self-published…
While in Houston this past weekend for a series of amazing gatherings of teachers from the National Education Association, I got to meet Gabrielle and Warren from the US Dept….
I’m excited to announce that the new, 3rd edition of An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is done, and about to head out to the printers! If you didn’t catch…
Freedom Highway is a radio show produced by Nick Panken for Radio Kingston. Earlier this year Nick traveled down to Interference Archive for a number of visits, and interviewed both…
Dean Spade has recently posted an amazing website of resources for queer and trans people (and their accomplices) to make sense of the thorny issues around the US military trans…
Check out this great new short film about adhacking and subvertising in London, just put out by Dog Section Press! Also, I’ll be moderating a panel next week with three…
For about 6 months the Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution has been out of stock, but the Feminist Press has reprinted (the 3rd printing!) and…