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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). 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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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: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School, Imaging Apartheid, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Pound the Pavement, Cut and Paint, Graphic Liberation!: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements
No Silence zine

No Silence zine

April 10, 2025

A new zine from Justseeds ally Stefan Christoff in Montreal: This zine accompanies a compilation of original music created for broadcast on Radio AlHara in Bethlehem, Palestine. The broadcast mixtapes…

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