Signal Sale at PM Press
October 16, 2018
The publisher of our Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, PM Press, is having a big sale this month, where you can get 40% off all issues…
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Appalachian Movement Press: an excerpt from Signal:06
February 23, 2018
Update (summer 2020): this research has grown to become a book! So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969–1979 will be available on West Virginia University…
Signal:06 Editors Round-Up
February 19, 2018
Fresh from the printers is the sixth and latest issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture. Signal is edited by Josh MacPhee and I and it…
Signal:05 Out Now!
August 2, 2016
Alec and I are very excited that our latest issue of Signal is back from the printer and available here on Justseeds! We made a little promotional animation/video, and hope…
Signal:04 Editors’ Round Up
June 7, 2015
Signal is journal of international political graphics and culture and is edited by Josh MacPhee and myself (Alec Dunn). We produce Signal because we believe that art and culture…
Signal:03 review on Dubdog
March 15, 2015
Signal:03 got a really nice review a couple weeks back on Dubdog.com. Check it out HERE. And you can always pick up a copy of Signal from us HERE. And…
Signal Fire: Lost Marbles
July 18, 2014
I just got back from a week in the Marble Mountains wilderness of Northern California with the wildlands education and residency organization Signal Fire. Ten artists and activists, from a…
Signal:03 Editor’s Roundup
May 7, 2014
Signal:03 Editor’s Round Up We start this issue with a reproduction of a silkscreened portfolio, titled Jeu de Massacre, which was produced in 1930 by an anti-fascist/anarchist/surrealist printmaker by the name…
Signal:03 Out Now!
January 13, 2014
The brand new issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture was just printed, and is now available on Justseeds. We’re really excited about it, and think…
Signal Reviewed in the Design Observer
September 11, 2012
From the Design Observer: I can’t think of any other design or visual arts publication quite like Signal in form and content. “Journal” is exactly the right word here because Signal,…
Signal 02: Editor’s Round Up
July 18, 2012
After a tough two years (and many gentle reminders from the PM crew) Signal 02 is finally finished. Signal is ongoing project between Josh MacPhee and me, with the aim…
Bat Signals and Floating Tents
November 18, 2011
Two great creative actions from NYC to the Bay on the two-month mark of the Occupy Wall Street Movement: From NYC: The “bat signal project”
Signal Slideshow (PDX)
May 10, 2011
Josh and I are giving a talk tomorrow night at Microcosm in Portland, 636 SE 11th, 7PM! Hope to see you there!
Signal:01 Editor’s Round Up
August 7, 2010
Signal 01 is out! The first issue of Signal is out now! Signal is a full color, 140 page book about international political art, graphics, and culture. This issue contains interviews with the Taller Tupac…
Signal 01 is out!
August 6, 2010
The first issue of Signal is out now published by PM Press. Signal is a full color, 140 page book about international political art, graphics, and culture. The first issue…
The Witch in the Smoke
September 14, 2020
David Graeber died last week, and in mourning his loss and considering his contributions, I read, at a friend’s suggestion, his 2011 summary of Occupy on the Al Jazeera website….
Our Emphasis Is On Getting Out the Vote
September 7, 2020
Call to action / authored by Nicolas Lampert and Dan S. Wang We are facing the most important election of our lives, one that will have consequences for generations to…
Fifty Three Days of Protest in Portland, Oregon.
July 20, 2020
It’s been 53 days of protest in Portland. Tonight at the Justice Center a line of mothers in yellow is pressed against the new fence that the Federal forces have…
Reflecting on the Let Our People Go: Week of Action
May 6, 2020
From April 13th to 17th the Illinois Coalition for Higher Education in Prison (IL-CHEP) hosted the Let Our People Go: Week of Action. One of the IL-CHEP coalition partners is…
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…
What to Pick Up After You Put Down the Gun
May 18, 2019
I’ve just returned from a 6-week residency (along with my partner Erica Thomas) in Medellín, Colombia, as a guest of Casa Tres Patios; an arts organization affiliated with the University…
Appalachian Movement Press on Audio Interference #53
June 25, 2018
“They saw this region as affected by a colonial influence from the larger urban areas, extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not giving anything…
Solidarity with Oak Flat
March 9, 2018
I recently returned from about three and a half weeks of travel through the southwest and beyond, including three days spent at the 4th annual March to Save Oak Flat….
256: Little New World (compiled)
January 22, 2018
From the early 20th century through the early 1960s, one of the largest Left organizations in the US (if not the largest) was the Communist Party USA. The propaganda wing…
read the writing on the wall – 58
January 17, 2018
Live by the phone Die by the phone Somewhere, NYC. June 25, 2016 In 2011, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified radiofrequency (RF) radiation like…
253: Willeford’s Miami
December 11, 2017
The TV show Miami Vice ran from 1984–1990, closing out the decade with a slick, fashionable, multi-racial crime fighting duo that got to play it both ways—creating a sexy, alluring…
1970s Activist Publishing in West Virginia: Researching Appalachian Movement Press
July 21, 2017
Update (summer 2020): since writing this post in July of 2017, this research has grown to become a book! So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY…
American Domain
June 30, 2017
Humanist and documentary photographer Dan Budnik is best known for his black and white photography from the civil rights era. It was Dan’s photo of Dr. King that appeared on…
Help send Pangrok Sulap to Spain!
April 28, 2017
Pangrok Sulap is an activist print-arts collective based out of Sabah, Malaysia. They are an amazing group that does movement based art works with local communities, particularly on issues of…
The Sunflower Seed
April 27, 2017
A guest post by colleague Amy Harwood, of Signal Fire and the Gloo Factory. I think I might have the most interesting comment thread going on Facebook today. No, really….
Screenprinting at the Art Tent at Standing Rock: Viktor Ortix interviewed by Nicolas Lampert
January 26, 2017
Dallas-based printmaker Viktor Ortix traveled to Standing Rock in September and then in early November where he stayed at the Oceti Sakowin camp for six weeks. He spent the majority…
Protests in Print at NYPL
August 15, 2016
Many Justseeds-related publications are included in the current “flash exhibition” Protests in Print at the New York Public Library. Signal, the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine zine, and some Interference…
234: Ben Shahn, part III
April 11, 2016
This week is the third installment of my Judging Books by Their Covers posts on the design work of Ben Shahn. For more on Shahn, and to see the other…
230: Small Press Africa, part VI
February 22, 2016
This week I’m going to close out my sub-series on Small Press Africa with sixteen books from Southern Africa. I hope people have enjoyed checking these books out as much…
168:01 Poetic, Political, & Useful
January 27, 2016
Wafaa Bilal’s new project 168:01 is one of the most poetic, political, and useful artworks of the last decade. Through the project he highlights and acknowledges the destruction of the…
DIYDPW #33: DIY-to-Official
November 10, 2015
Back in 2011, DIYDPW #4 highlighted an unauthorized sign installed at an egregious Pittsburgh intersection (above). That sign was intended to alert drivers that traffic patterns had been changed, even…
209: Images of a Revolution
January 12, 2015
One of my favorite art books is Images of a Revolution, a oversized if slim volume on the murals of revolutionary Mozambique. It was published in 1983 by the Zimbabwe…
192: Curbstone Press, part IV
September 8, 2014
Sometime in the late 1970s the editors at Curbstone must have crossed paths with a figure involved in political culture in Denmark. A series of poetry chapbooks by Danish authors…
189: Curbstone Press, part I
August 18, 2014
I was in a used bookshop in Denver in 1995 and I was looking in the poetry section for some reason. I have no memory as to why, I had…
172: Amilcar Cabral, part III
February 3, 2014
Although much respected, Amilcar Cabral didn’t actually write that much beyond speeches and lectures. But there is a large body of literature about Cabral, and the struggle in Portuguese Guinea….
167: Pluto Workers’ Handbooks
December 30, 2013
Back in 1974, someone smart at the British radical, socialist press Pluto decided to publish the first of a series of Workers’ Handbooks. The Hazards of Work: How to Fight…
162: DDR Mini Poster Books, part I
November 18, 2013
When I first traveled to Berlin back in 2007, doing research for Signal with Alec Dunn, we spent a lot of time haunting bookstores. Being a book junkie, there’s little…
159: Bogle L’Ouverture, part II
October 28, 2013
After Walter Rodney and Andrew Salkey, the most important author Bogle-L’Overture published was the Jamaican-born but London-based street poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. Kwesi Johnson become a popular voice of the…
Justseeds schedule of presentations at SGCI in Milwaukee
March 22, 2013
Close to 20 of us from Justseeds are taking part in the SGCI print conference in Milwaukee this weekend. We created a “print factory” installation, creating new work on the…
Process: The logo for the Rebellious Nursing Conference
February 2, 2013
I recently had the opportunity to design logos for two great organizations, Fight Back Pittsburgh and the Rebellious Nursing Conference. The creation of a logo is really difficult process!…
128: Anarchy (2nd Series), part V
December 10, 2012
This week we’ve got some great covers! To the right is Anarchy #21. I actually should have included this issue—and the next one, #22—with last weeks entry, as it fits…
124: Anarchy (2nd Series), Part I
November 12, 2012
In Signal:01, Alec Dunn and I ran an interview with Rufus Segar, the graphic designer who did the vast majority of the covers for the British monthly journal Anarchy. Not…
Sewing Freedom
October 14, 2012
Jared Davidson (from Garage Collective, and designer of the Red Feds Celebrate People’s History poster) just put out a great looking new book on anarchism in NZ called Sewing Freedom….
Whistling for Macho B: an Interview w/ Janay Brun (pt.1)
May 8, 2012
In March 2009, headlines told us that “the last jaguar in the United States” had died in the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona after being snared in the wild during a…
102: Frantz Fanon, part II
April 2, 2012
Let’s start off part two of the covers of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth (read part one HERE) with this beautiful cover from the 1961 Portuguese edition published by Editora…
Justseeds Pittsburgh Interview in Nor’easter
March 15, 2012
I was digging around in my archives and found this interview that Shaun Slifer and I did last year with our buddy Hannah Dobbz for the Nor’easter: Official Quarterly of…
98: Black Power
February 27, 2012
Working on the Angela Davis covers has got me thinking about representations of Black liberation. In particular, I’ve been trying to sort out and understand the surprisingly successful cover to…
San Juan Copala: Autonomous Triquis want to go home!
February 10, 2012
My friend Carolina just sent me this awesome article she wrote on the on-going battle of the Triqui people for their Autonomy and self determination. San Juan Copala: Autonomous Triquis…
93: Kronstadt, part IV
January 16, 2012
My friend R. Marut in London has come through again with some more books I had missed, so here are the last three Kronstadt covers. First is this handsome Freedom…
Bunker Mentality
October 17, 2011
I just returned from Europe, having followed up the epic Justseeds Slovenia Install with some travel in Croatia and the UK. During my excursion to Croatia, I stayed on the…
62: Shortfuse Press
June 13, 2011
In January 1994 I made my first visit to the UK and to London. At the time there were two functional anarchist spaces in town that were open to the…
49: Kropotkin, part IV
March 14, 2011
Over the next couple weeks I’m going to dig through the rest of the Peter Kropotkin covers I’ve found. Most are beardless, and many are banal at best, but there…
In the News & New Reviews
January 14, 2011
My books and projects have gotten a nice batch of press lately: 1) Chloe Eudaley of Reading Frenzy in Portland, OR chose Celebrate People’s History! as one of her top…
37: Homage to Catalonia, part II
December 20, 2010
Orwell was lucky to be published in the UK by Penguin, one of the publishers with the best record of concern for, and investment, in their book covers. The cover…
Press Roundup, December 2010
December 18, 2010
Some great recent press: 1) Peter Linebaugh does a duel review of Signs of Change and Celebrate People’s History for Counterpunch HERE. It’s a great long-format review, and well worth…
In the Blogosphere…
September 7, 2010
Signal has gotten a couple nice mentions on the web (don’t forget to pick up a copy HERE.): —A review at Dotrad, which calls Signal “a beautiful chronicle of political…
4: Liberation Support Movement, Part III
May 3, 2010
Part 3 (and final part for now) of the covers of the Liberation Support Movement. This Sowing the First Harvest cover is quite nice, a striking block print (attributed to…
Mix-A-Day
January 11, 2010
I’ve been creating a mix of music & other auditory ephemera every day for the month of January 2010. They’re all posted here in downloadable form. This project is a…
Hotel Workers Stike in SF
November 11, 2009
David Bacon just sent out a nice set of photos and a short text on the hotel worker’s strike going on right now in San Francisco. One of the things…
LISTS: Twenty Poster Books of Note
September 16, 2009
I was making out a list of books for a friend, and realized I could share it with all our blog readers. For those that don’t know, I’m both a…
Mary Mack Zine Interview on Paper Trail Site
September 13, 2009
ally reeves and me—this is very zine-y, right? Ciara Xyerra, the proprietress behind Learning to Leave a Paper Trail zine distro, did an interview with me a few weeks ago,…
¡Vivan las Guerreras de Oaxaca!
June 1, 2009
A look behind Tim Simon’s new Celebrate People’s History Poster (taken from his blog Some News, Mostly Propaganda): I recently completed a two color poster for the awesome Celebrate People’s…
Incite! Journal online
January 4, 2009
My friend Brett Kashmere has recently released the first online issue of Incite! journal of experimental media & radical aesthetics. The theme of the first issue is “Manifest,” and there’s…
Call for Submissions – THE END OF TELEVISION
December 9, 2008
The End of Television is a video program beginning when analog television ends. On February 17th, 2009 the U.S. television broadcast signal will change over from analog to digital. No…
Counter-Recruitment Comics
March 1, 2006
We recieved news about this amazing project from comic artist Sabrina Jones, contributer to World War 3 Illustrated and Wobblies! : “Mixed Signals” – a counter-recruitment tool in comic book…
Can’t tell the cops from the robbers
October 6, 2005
Will from UntitledName.com has photos of police officers stealing bicycles locked to street signs in Williamsburg. He writes: Around 7 pm on October 5, 2005 the NYPD removed bicycles locked…
A good week for public art
April 29, 2005
Last weekend, Los Angeles art collective Heavy Trash installed giant orange “viewing platforms” near the entrances to gated communities: On April 24, 2005, Heavy Trash volunteers deposited bright orange viewing…
