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). 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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Other Media
Artist Interests
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, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Pound the Pavement, Cut and Paint
Wash Your Hands
$12
Let’s Save the Post Office
The Portland Stamp Company & Josh MacPhee
$10
The Seven Principles of Cooperation
$15
Together
$15
Time To Connect
$15
Like the Waters, We Rise
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
$10
The Day Before the Revolution
$16
Reproduce & Revolt
$50
Got Oil?
Street.Rec & Josh MacPhee
$20
Pound the Pavement #22
$8
24-Hour Armed Security
$60
An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
Labor Creates All Wealth
$15
Soon We’ll All Be Gone.
$8
Many Hands For Human Need
$15
Nuclear Warning
$1.5
History
$1.5
The Cure for Disorder…
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
$15
Now!
$15
Hudson Mohawk Mayday
$1.5
Somebody is Watching You.
$15
Build Communities
$12
Liberation Support Movement (2nd Edition)
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
$7
No New Jails
$15
Build Communities embroidered patches
$6
Malcolm X
$5
Total Control?
$6
We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
$15
No More
$10
Beware of Buyouts
$10
Tierra y Libertad
$20
Agitate! Educate! Organize!
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
$15
Armed Love
Ben Morea & Josh MacPhee
$20
Build Communities (Red and Green)
$12
Smile, You’re On Camera
$25
All Rise
$15
No Sides in Climate
$25
The Cops Are In Your Head…
$8
Daddy, what did YOU do in the Climate War?
$30
No to the University as Factory
$12
Lick Your Elbow
$5
Boycott/Divest/Sanction
$10
Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Give Graffiti the Thumbs Up
Daniel Tucker & Josh MacPhee
$6
Paper Politics (1st ed.)
$20
Red Wedge & Black Wedge Beat the Whites
$6
Commonwealth: Water for All
Justseeds Collaboration
$120
Capture the Flag 7
$25
Capture the Flag 12
$25
Capture the Flag 13
$25
Security/Fear
$40
Québec Biennial poster set
Justseeds Collaboration
$50
Capture the Flag 2
$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
Producing the City
$25
Fuck Work
$10
Armed by Design/El Diseño a las Armas
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
$20
Mint
$30
Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War Broadsheet
Justseeds Collaboration
$12
DS128.4
$25
Kropotkin 1892
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_____ 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
Exhausted by Capitalism
$25
Far From Afghanistan
$75
For A Society Without Prisons
$5
Signal:02
$14.95
Money Talks Too Much
$50
We’re All In This Together
$100
Toward Freedom (Palestine)
$15
Signal:01
$14.95
US Military Interventions Since WWII
$10
Sacco and Vanzetti
$5
Apartheid IsReal
$25
Kold Krush
Resourced
To Each According to Need
$50
Make Art Not War Postcard
$1.50
Noam Chomsky: Crisis & Hope
How Many Dead?
$30
Ghost of the Liberty Street Church
$20
2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair
$25
Trashing the Neoliberal City
$10
The Art of Protest
May 5, 2020
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…
Polit-Groove IGTV Channel
May 4, 2020
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…
Close Rikers/Free Them Now!
March 26, 2020
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…
Certain Days Call for Art
March 9, 2020
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…
Open Call for the 2020 Screenprint Biennial
February 16, 2020
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…
An Encyclopedia one of Hyperallergic’s Top 25 Books of 2019
January 16, 2020
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…
Jamaa al-Yad: Revolution Until Victory
October 30, 2019
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…
On Tour with An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
September 27, 2019
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…
Steven Heller Interviews Josh MacPhee
September 26, 2019
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…
Mutual Aid Animation
August 22, 2019
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….
Advertising Shits In Your Head
July 31, 2019
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…
Street Sheet Collaboration
July 11, 2019
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…
Radix’ Futures Series
July 10, 2019
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…
An Encyclopedia featured on Pop Matters
July 8, 2019
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…
Honor Native Land with USDAC
July 2, 2019
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….
Pre-Sale for An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
May 13, 2019
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
May 11, 2019
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…
Queer Trans War Ban
May 10, 2019
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…
Subvertisers for London
April 25, 2019
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…
Celebrate People’s History Poster book back in stock!
April 25, 2019
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…
Smash
Shut Them Down
Wellspring Portfolio
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 53.41 MB
Format: JPG
Fist-Aid Kit
Prisons Don’t Work
Build Communities
Tax Cuts for the Rich
We Used to Employ People, Now We Warehouse Them
Soon They’ll All Be Gone…
Under the Burning Cop Cars, the Beach
Beware of Buyouts
No Sides In Science
There Is Nothing More Urgent Than Freedom
Defend/Defund
PTSD (Captain America)
IVAW Field Organizing Team
#PeopleNotPolluters
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 35.03 MB
Format: Various
Hands Off Assata
Free Them Now!
Strike! Dignity!
Rebirth
Operation Recovery
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 9.90 MB
Format: PDF zine
Agua Para Todos
Bars 1
You only get what you’re organized to take.
Resourced Portolio
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 39.01 MB
Format: PDF
Melt Ice
Flag/Prison
Fuck Work Animation 1
Global Climate Strike 2019 Graphics
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 257.83 MB
Format: PDF
Forest
Organize!
University As Factory? No!
Care Package #1
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 128.96 MB
Format: mixed
The Police Talk to You…
All Borders Are Temporary
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 4.50 MB
Format: PDF
Healthcare for All
Exhausted by Capitalism
Agitate-Educate-Organize
The City is Ours
Out of Stock
Voices From Outside: Critical Resistance
Counter-Signals #2
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
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Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
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All Together Now!
Drew Cameron/Combat Paper & Josh MacPhee
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Young Americans
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Social Movement Symbols
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Untitled
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History (Redux)
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Capture the Flag 15
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Build Communities
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Free Expression
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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Pound the Pavement #8
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Now!
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – patch
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Philly Graphics: Street Art Against the Republican National Convention 2000
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You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take
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STOP
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Zapatista
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Prisons are a Black Hole
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Organize!
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Autonomy Sticker
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Counter-Signals #1
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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Eighteen Street Stencils
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10 Street Stencils
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Plant Seeds
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Three Steps
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Liberating Learning
Under Water States of America
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Great Soft Power
Justseeds Collaboration
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Agua Para Todos
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John Brown
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Healthcare for All
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Realizing the Impossible
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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
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The Readers
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Labor Creates All Wealth
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Migration Now!
Malcolm X
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Stencil Four
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Advertising Shits In Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
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Healthcare for All
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DS128.4
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Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
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Pound the Pavement #11
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Resourced Forest
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We Want (Everything)
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Flags (Black)
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Feet on the Ground 2
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Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
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Stencil Pirates
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Three Steps
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Signs of Change
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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All Borders Are Temporary
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Melt Ice
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No One Is Illegal Diptych
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Security
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Exhausted
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Liberation Support Movement
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Free the Land
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Pilot TV
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – sticker
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Close Rikers/No New Jails
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Pound the Pavement #12
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Seventeen Street Stencils
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Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
Justseeds Collaboration
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Toward Freedom (Egypt)
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Pound the Pavement #9
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John Brown
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Rebirth
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Street Stencils #2
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Melt Ice
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Grow
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Eradicate Fascist Vermin
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