Portland, OR, United States
Alec is a printer and illustrator living in Portland, OR. He is a nurse who works in critical care and harm reduction. He co-edits Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture along with Josh MacPhee.
Other Media
An overview of the latest issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture.
This is an update on changes with the Justseeds Open Type Project and news on a couple of related projects.
“Thirty-five years ago today, 28-year-old Mulugeta Seraw was a beloved son, nephew, brother, father, and community member when his friends dropped him off at his house after a party. His…
There’s a lovely remembrance of the political artist Peg Averill written by Chloe Buergenthal, over on the War Resisters League blog, as part of the 100 year anniversary/celebration of this…
Way back in the summer of 2019 Josh MacPhee and I started putting together the new issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture, our seventh in…
I’ve been working in both medicine and harm reduction for a decade now and have been trying to bridge my art/design background and my practices in street medicine and harm…
It Did Happen Here is an independently produced podcast that documents the organizing and unapologetic street battles against racist white skinheads as various anti-fascist activists in Portland, Oregon struggled to defend…
Two UCLA grad students in information studies have assembled an online archive of struggles around justice and prison abolition in California, called Rebel Archives in Golden Gulag (a nod to…
It’s been hard to know to make graphics and art that responds to the terrible and evolving situation that we are in. Our realities shift so quickly that an idea…
Erin Yanke and I recently finished up a recent edition of our newest podcast about harm reduction. In this episode we interviewed Michael Gilbert- a public health technologist and harm…
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…
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…