Projects tagged
Print & Design
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Artist Wages Drone War on Thomas Kinkade
Read more: Artist Wages Drone War on Thomas KinkadeThere are few artists more innocuous, more neutered, more universally loved and reviled than Thomas Kinkade. His soft-focus images present an idyllic vision of America and of Christianity, like Norman Rockwell without the blue-collar populism, where everything is beautiful, nothing…
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JustSeeds Artists’ Cooperative
Read more: JustSeeds Artists’ CooperativeJustseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized network of 24 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a…
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MTA Posters
Read more: MTA PostersCome across a poster like the two above on your commute recently? Laid out in classic MTA style, but adorned with Orwellian imagery and an appropriately ambiguous hashtag, they warn of two possible hazards to your health: an upcoming “airborne…
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New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / Blackmail
Read more: New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / BlackmailThe prints exhibited June 2013 at Firestorm in Asheville NC, will comprise two separate bodies of work; Chelsea Ragan’s combination screen print / woodblock print / painting / drawings graphically detail police shootings of young black males from across the…
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The Poster Workshop
Read more: The Poster WorkshopBetween the late 1960s and 1970s numerous alternative printshops were set up across the UK, with the founding objective of producing, providing or facilitating the cheap and safe printing of radical materials. They were started by libertarians, aligned and non-aligned…
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John Heartfield’s Anti-Nazi Photomontages
Read more: John Heartfield’s Anti-Nazi PhotomontagesJohn Heartfield began to make photomontages as a member of the Berlin branch of international Dada around 1920. Schooled in graphic arts and having worked briefly in animated film, Heartfield (who had anglicized his given name, Helmut Herzfeld, in 1917…
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Secret Anti-Abuse Advertisement
Read more: Secret Anti-Abuse AdvertisementIn an effort to provide abused children with a safe way to reach out for help, a Spanish organization called the Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation, or ANAR for short, created an ad that displays a different…
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NYC Mock Posters Detail Police Terror Drills, Nuclear Threats
Read more: NYC Mock Posters Detail Police Terror Drills, Nuclear ThreatsIn an effort to prepare against chemical, biological and radiological attacks in the New York subway, the New York Police Department has announced plans to release harmless gases into the city’s streets and subway stations to better understand the pathways…
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Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See
Read more: Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can SeeSpanish organization the ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk) releases a campaign that takes advantage of the process of lenticular printing to send an offer of help to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re…
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YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaign
Read more: YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaignLexi Nisita from Refinery 29 writes in her article “Not A Sketch: The Most Creative Anti-ED Message We’ve Seen Yet,” “Brazilian modeling agency Star Models has recently released an eating disorder awareness campaign featuring your typical fashion sketch on the…