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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Our friends at Certain Days, who have been producing an amazing calendar with—and as a benefit for—political prisoners for 23 years (!) are collecting art and writing for their 2025…
Interference Archive and Common Notions need your help to publish a new, expanded, and amazing edition of Armed by Design, the most comprehensive book on the publication program of Cuba’s…
Justseeds friend Vic Speedwell recently sent over these photos from the streets of Amman. It’s nice to see the diversity of pro-Palestine street art in various sites around the globe.
I’m very excited to announce my new book, Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements, which is being shipped from the printed this week! I’ve been slowly and quietly at…
A mix for Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative This mix features mostly local Montreal artists, particularly musicians, who have been involved in the intersections of social movements and the arts. I have…
Chris recently sent over a link for a free download of his great stencil how-to book he’s used for multiple workshops and art courses. It’s got a nice overview of…
After many years of people asking if I had any shirts of many of my graphics, I’ve finally launched a new shirt store! I’m testing things out on Bonfire, starting…
Over the past six weeks my Graphic Liberation! exhibition has been housed at the Opalka Gallery at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY. A set of interchangeable and interactive projects…
This just in! One of the key community print shops in the US—Mission Gráfica in San Francisco—is putting together a book documenting its 40-year history. Written by Art Hazelwood, a…
Last week I posted a collective playlist compiled from Justseeds member favorite spins this summer. Today I’m posting the full lists ten folks sent me, so you can dive deeper…
Music has always been important to us over here (there? everywhere?) at Justseeds. Many members are in or have spent considerable time with bands and other musical projects, others have…
A couple years back I was contacted by Amanda Maciuba, a printmaking professor at Mt. Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts. For a number of years she has been using my…