Signal: 01: A Journal of International Poltical Graphics

Description

Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Its objective is to bring these artists and their work to a new audience, digging deep through a common history to unearth their images and stories. Signal will serve as a unique and irreplaceable resource for activist artists and academic researchers, as well as an active forum for the critique of the role of art in revolution.

Alec Dunn is an illustrator and a printer who has designed book and record covers, political graphics, and punk fliers. His work can be seen at www.blackoutprint.com. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Josh MacPhee is an artist and an activist whose work focuses on social movements, history, and public space. He is the author of Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority, and Reproduce and Revolt. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"Offering these graphics to generations far beyond their original audiences, this title is recommended for designers, activists, archivists, and scholars studying protest movements." --Library Journal "Signal reads like a magazine in that it consists of a number of smaller, independent articles but the loose continuity of subject holds it together as a book. As a series, this is going to be a great resource. Dunn and MacPhee are filling a void in terms of political graphics; there's a lot of material for them to cover and this is solid start." --Printeresting.org "Signal is dotted with stunning photography that will certainly reel in many people who are into unusual art. Clocking in at just under 140 glossy pages, Dunn and MacPhee do an impressive job of conveying not only what is new and relevant in political art, but also its history and its presence in the everyday." --Political Media Review "If you are interested in the use of graphic art and communication in political struggles, don't miss the latest issue of Signal." --Rick Poynor, Design Observer "Signal couldn't have arrived at a better time to reassure those of us using visual culture to enter a political discourse. " --Last Hours