May Day: Youth Prepare from Betty Bastidas on Vimeo. In preparation for May 1st Immigrant Rights mobilization in Oakland youth gathered for a banner making party to paint graffiti banners,…
Inkworks, one of our favorite worker-owned print shops, has just release issue #3 of their Hot Off the Presses newsletter. And this issue’s artists of the month are Justseeds own…
Lincoln Cushing’s new book on American labor posters is finally out!: Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher $24.95, Cornell University Press, 2009 East Bay…
This week saw the culmination of a project I’ve been working on the last couple of months alongside Mary Tremonte (also of Justseeds), Pittsburgh artist (and beekeeper) Ashley Brickman, and…
Here’s a really nice write up on Favianna’s recent trip to Toronto, from the Rabble website. Click here.
I created this image in the last few hours of the Justseeds installation, at UW-Milwaukee. I’m kind of obsessed with current economic events. So I decided to make a poster…
Back in December the Paper Politics exhibition I curated was hung at the Red House in Syracuse. I got a bunch of photos from the show, but realized I had…
Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex America has more than 2 million people in prison, more than any other country in the world. Prison Nation addresses many critical…
Inkworks Press has just put up a nice write-up on Bay Area artist Hugh D’Andre, with a number of nice images of his work, including a half dozen posters he…
Chris from 56A Infoshop in London just sent me a hilarious conversation going on over at UK Indymedia regarding a poster which re-purposes my Durruti Column Celebrate People’s History poster….
I’m sure there are more political graphics nerds like me out there, as well as people smart enough to know that the history of our images gives us great insight…
Jared Davidson, the artist behind the Garage Collective in Christchurch, New Zealand, has designed the latest Celebrate People’s History Poster. His poster, Red Feds, is a celebration of early labor…
I wanted to announce the release of a new Celebrate People’s History poster! The Cherokee Writing System was designed by Frank Brannon, Jr., who runs his own letterpress studio SpeakEasy…
Roman from InCUBATE recently turned me on to a really cool project that recently came out of Cuba. Cuba since the Revolution has had an amazing culture of poster production,…
MasterPeaces: High Art for Higher Purpose June 6 – 27, 2009 Da Vinci Gallery Los Angeles City College 855 N. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California 90029 323.953.4000 In conjunction with…
In doing research for Signs of Change my friend Sabu Khoso sent me a great link to the Ohara Institute for Social Research, which has an amazing web page of…
Political graphics historian Lincoln Cushing has a new book coming out in the Spring called Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters. It’s a giant collection of over 250 labor posters…
I just finished this poster for my friend Pepe Urquijo for a documentary film he is working on about RC Tomilson, a reggae artist from Jamaica. He has been working…
Lincoln Cushing has written a great article on posters produced in the 30s and 40s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and how they are being “borrowed” by designers and…
Jared Davidson from the Garage Collective in New Zealand has created a poster for a local protest in Christchurch, NZ. He’s also been blogging about the NZ response to Gaza…