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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Justseeds’ good friend Stefan Christoff, who started both Free City Radio and the Imaging Apartheid Project, has just launched a new initiative, a weekly Free City Radio TV show on…
Friends at the Centre de Documentació de l’Esquerra Independentista are putting together a fabulous book of the history of stickers as agit prop in the struggle for Catalan independence. They’re…
A great article about the life and work of protest singer Barbara Dane came out today, written by Jenn Pelly and published by the New York Times. Here’s the first…
This post is written by Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, a social justice activist and lay Buddhist teacher in the Burmese tradition who travels to Myanmar at least once a year. Unfortunately…
I’m very excited to present the 2021 Graphic Liberation Lecture Series! I was invited by the Art and Art History Department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation at Colgate University…
First things first, I’ve launched a small Spoonflower shop of some of my political fabric patterns. You can check it out and buy fabric HERE. Because I don’t have the…
We want to welcome Kevin Yuen Kit Lo as part of the Justseeds class of 2020! Kevin lives and works in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. He is the principal and creative director of…
We’re very excited to welcome Zola into the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. Zola is based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, and over the past decade has become one of the city’s most prolific and…
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…