INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE; HANNA, Lani; HOYER, Jen; MACPHEE, Josh; ORDAZ, Vero; SEIDMAN, Sarah
El Diseñà a las Armas / Armado pelo Design / Armés à Dessein / Armed by Design: Posters and Publications of Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL)
OSPAAAL developed out of the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana, a meeting of delegates representing national liberation movements and leftist political parties almost exclusively from the Global South. Based in Havana, OSPAAAL produced nearly five hundred posters, magazines, and books beginning in the late 1960s, with most of their work ceasing by the late 1980s. Until 2019, OSPAAAL was a political organization focused on fighting US imperialism and supporting liberation movements around the world through poster production, regularly produced publications, and a series of books featuring the writings of the intellectual leadership of these movements.
Armed By Design brings together artists and thinkers from around the world whose work has been impacted by the legacy of OSPAAAL. These contributions reflect on impacts of OSPAAAL’s work on regional movements, including in the Arab world and Korea, design iconography, the evolution of tricontinentalism, our present-day relationship to OSPAAAL posters as a commodity, and authorship and reproduction.
This full-color multilingual edition includes ten international contemporary political poster-makers, artists, and designers commissioned to produce OSPAAAL-inspired prints in solidarity with today’s movements: Friends of Ibn Firnas (USA), Yuko Tonohira (Japan/USA), Ganzeer (Egypt/USA), Un Mundo Feliz (Spain), Steven Rodriguez (USA), Dignidad Rebelde, Tomie Arai (USA), Sublevarte Colectivo (Mexico), Jamaa Al-Yad (Lebanon/Worldwide), and A3CB (Japan). [publishers’ note]
Ce livre explore les liens entre graphisme et solidarité politique de l’Organisation de la solidarité des peuples d’Afrique, d’Asie et d’Amérique latine (OSPAAAL). De la fin des années 1960 à la fin des années 1980 l’OSPAAAL a produit près de 500 affiches, livres, revues (Tricontinental). Les contributions de ce livre reviennent sur l’impact de l’OSPAAL sur des mouvements de libération et d’émancipation, à travers des essais et entretiens ; des propositions de designers et collectives contemporaines montrent comment se perpétue cette approche du design au service de l’égalité et du changement social.
Tricontinental >> Quadrilingual book: Texts in English + Textes en français+ Textos en español + Textos em português !!
Published by Common Notions / tumbalacasa / sobinfluencia edições, 2025
Media Studies / Politics / Graphic Design
