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Josh MacPhee
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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AnarchismAnti-capitalismAnti-warCulture & MediaGlobal SolidarityHistoryHousing & CitiesLaborPolice & PrisonsRacial JusticeSocial Movements Associated Projects
Interference Archive, Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, Street Art Workers, Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, Inaugurating Resistance, Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas, Imaging Apartheid
We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
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No More
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Organize!
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Beware of Buyouts
$10
Tierra y Libertad
$20
Build Communities
$12
Agitate! Educate! Organize!
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
$15
Armed Love
Ben Morea & Josh MacPhee
$20
Social Movement Symbols
$30
Smile, You’re On Camera
$25
All Rise
$15
No Sides in Climate
$25
Close Rikers/No New Jails
$10
The Cops Are In Your Head…
$8
Daddy, what did YOU do in the Climate War?
$30
Lick Your Elbow
$5
Boycott/Divest/Sanction
$10
You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take
$20
Poor People’s Campaign Portfolio
Give Graffiti the Thumbs Up
Daniel Tucker & Josh MacPhee
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Paper Politics Poster
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Eradicate Fascist Vermin
$25
Signal:06
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Flags (Black)
$15
Paper Politics (1st ed.)
$20
Red Wedge & Black Wedge Beat the Whites
$6
Counter-Signals #2
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
$15
Healthcare for All
$10
Commonwealth: Water for All
Justseeds Collaboration
$120
Capture the Flag 7
$25
An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
$10
Security/Fear
$40
Québec Biennial poster set
Justseeds Collaboration
$50
Mini Prints
$15
Capture the Flag 4
$25
Three Steps
$12
Plant Seeds
$5
Counter-Signals #1
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
$15
Capture the Flag 19
$25
Capture the Flag 1
$25
Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements
$20
Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements
edited by Anthony Romero & Josh MacPhee
$20
Security
$20
Lonely Books
$10
Liberation Support Movement
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
$6
Wellspring
Beyond Prisons
$6
Signal:05
$13
Producing the City
$25
Fuck Work
$10
Armed by Design/El Diseño a las Armas
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
$20
People’s Climate March!
$10
All Together Now!
Drew Cameron/Combat Paper & Josh MacPhee
$75
March
$10
Trois Doigts
$25
Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War Broadsheet
Justseeds Collaboration
$12
Realizing the Impossible
$24
DS128.4
$25
Kropotkin 1892
$20
_____ Manifesto Diptych
$175
We’ve Got Nothing to Lose But Our _____
$100
____ of the World, Unite!
$100
Signal:03
$14.95
Imaging Apartheid: Toward Freedom—Palestine
$15
Even the Worms…
$20
General Strike!
$40
Feet on the Ground 2
$50
We’re All In This Together
$100
Toward Freedom (Palestine)
$15
Toward Freedom (Egypt)
$20
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
$24.95
Signs of Change
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
$28
Signal:01
$14.95
US Military Interventions Since WWII
$10
Sacco and Vanzetti
$5
Celebrando 15 Años de Lucha Zapatista
Grow Tall
$10
How Many Dead?
$30
Ghost of the Liberty Street Church
$20
2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair
$25
Trashing the Neoliberal City
$10
Cut and Paint #2
$4
Winter In America
Signal Sale at PM Press
October 16, 2018
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…
Utopian Flag Making
October 2, 2018
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…
Free Sue Coe Print!
October 2, 2018
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!…
266: The New Soldier
August 13, 2018
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…
265: Health and Safety in Printmaking
July 23, 2018
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…
264: African Writers Series in Lapham’s Quarterly
July 18, 2018
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…
263: Big Red Diary 1974
July 16, 2018
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…
262: Deutschland Deutschland Uber Alles
July 9, 2018
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,…
261: A Soviet Journey
July 2, 2018
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…
260: No Pasaran!
June 25, 2018
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…
259: John Reed’s Mexiko in Aufruhr
June 18, 2018
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….
l’Humanité Poster Project
June 13, 2018
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…
258: Leonard Baskin (compiled)
June 4, 2018
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…
257: Dover Science and Math
May 21, 2018
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…
Posters for Change
April 11, 2018
Last month Princeton Architectural Press published Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest, a timely collection of political posters responding to today’s issues and struggles. It’s a beautifully produced book, and…
257.5: Book Table at Moon Palace Books
April 9, 2018
I recently was invited by the rad Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis to decorate one of the tables they’ve set up in their new cafe and restaurant over-looking the bookstore….
257: Penguin Crime
March 12, 2018
There are a couple really sweet spots (for me) where book cover design starts to feel sublime, and one of these is the “Green Period” of the Penguin crime series…
Sister Serpents at Interference Archive
February 22, 2018
On Thursday, March 1st from 7-9pm, Jeramy Turner and Mary Ellen Croteau will be presenting the secret history of the 1990s feminist art collective the Sister Serpents at Interference Archive…
Korean Edition of Celebrate People’s History poster book
February 21, 2018
I just got a copy in the mail of the Korean edition of my Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution! It has been in the works…
CPH Posters and the Sidewall Mural Project
February 20, 2018
It’s been really exciting to work the past year with the Sidewall Mural Project in Pittsburgh to produce a series of six Celebrate People’s History posters as 8 ft tall…
University As Factory? No!
Hands Off Assata
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
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Format: PDF
Occupy Poster Download: Dancing Dollars
Education Costs Way Less Than Prison
Melt Ice
Which Side Are You On?
There Are Too Many People in Prison
Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
There Is Nothing More Urgent Than Freedom
We Used to Employ People, Now We Warehouse Them
Mountain Top Removal
The Cops Are In Your Head…
Beware of Buyouts
You only get what you’re organized to take.
Exhausted by Capitalism
Street Stencils #2
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No to the University as Factory
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Bricks
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Voices From Outside: Critical Resistance
Malcolm X
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The Readers
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Pound the Pavement #11
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Grow
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Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
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Zapatista
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Free Expression
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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Great Soft Power
Justseeds Collaboration
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Young Americans
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The City is Ours
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We Want (Everything)
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – sticker
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To Each According to Need
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Labor Creates All Wealth
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Stars and Bars
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Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
Justseeds Collaboration
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DS128.4
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Three Steps
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Autonomy Sticker
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Pound the Pavement #9
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Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
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Build Communities
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Liberating Learning
Migration Now!
All Borders Are Temporary
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The Occupation of Alcatraz
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – patch
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John Brown
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2018 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Organizer (Small)
Justseeds Collaboration
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2018 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Organizer (Large)
Justseeds Collaboration
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History (Redux)
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Resourced Forest
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Now!
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Exhausted
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Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
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