Projects tagged "Print & Design"

Guerilla Girls
Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls
Date:
Feb 13 1985
The Guerilla Girls are masked art activists who seek to bring attention to women in the art world and expose the unfair dominance of white males in the field. Their research into the racial and gender inequality in the art world is exposed through ironically worded public posters and billboards.
Homeworkers
Practitioner:
Margaret F. Harrison
Date:
Jan 1 1977
Homeworkers 1977 is the central piece of a multidisciplinary project that comprised photographs, interviews, news clippings and a large canvas documenting the situation of non-unionised women doing manual work at home.
Ms. Marvel Bus Ad Defacement
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jan 30 2015
Racist adverts promoting hatred against Muslims are currently being run on buses in San Francisco - but someone has started covering them up with anti-hatred messages from Marvel's première Muslim superhero, Ms. Marvel.
I’ve just received an honorary doctorate at 18 – but that doesn’t matter
Practitioner:
Scarlett Westbrook
Date:
Dec 3 2022
This week, I got to make history. At 18 years of age, I received an honorary doctorate from the University of London for my work in climate justice, making me the current youngest holder of the award globally.
Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest
Practitioner:
Barnard
Date:
Mar 25 2018
“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest, welcoming approximately 40 zine-makers eager to share their work.
I shop therefore I am
Practitioner:
Barbara Kruger
Date:
Jan 1 1987
I Shop Therefore I Am (1987) is the work of Barbara Kruger . It became an iconic artwork, being reproduced on items such as shopping bags and other consumer products such as t-shirts. Kruger has often derived images from the mass media and pasted the words over them, particularly in Futura Bold . She then uses advertising to design her works.
Kissing Doesn’t Kill and other projects
Practitioner:
Gran Fury
Date:
Jan 1 1989
Gran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members, all artists - but action, not art, was the aim of the collective. Gran Fury member Loring McAlpin described the collective's mass-market ambition to “...fight for attention as hard as Coca-Cola fights for attention.”
Silence = Death
Practitioner:
Avram Finkelstein, Brian Howard, Oliver Johnston, Charles Kreloff, Chris Lione and Jorge Socarrás
Date:
Apr 3 1987
This is a prime example of the marriage of art and activism. The Silence = Death poster is simple but extremely powerful representation of the obstacles the AIDS movement was facing (suppression of gay people + their problems, lack of awareness surrounding the pandemic).
Ticketing Jessica Lappin
Practitioner:
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Date:
Jun 16 2010
The initiators collaborated with the Street Vendor Project (SVP) of the Urban Justice Center to campaign against New York City Council Member Jessica Lappin’s 2010 law project. The bill, intended to revoke permits issued to street vendor trucks if they got parking tickets, was so restrictive that it threatened to put most food trucks out of business.
When Verbal Abuse Becomes Real Weapon...
Practitioner:
Institute of psychology, Shenyang
Date:
Apr 1 2014
Institute of psychology in Shenyang, a major city of China, recently reveals 6 most frequently used utterances in verbal abuse of children among local parents: “Garbage”, “You know nothing but eating”, “Pig head”, “Shame on you”, “Why don’t you die”, “No one else is lamer than you”.
Inside Out Project
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Jan 28 2010
JR called for the creation of a global art project - the Inside Out Project - inspired by his large‐format street “pastings.” The concept of the project is to give everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and a statement of what they stand for, with the world. IOP provides individuals and groups from all corners of the globe with a vehicle to make a statement.
Chile's protest street art
Practitioner:
Mr Owl
Date:
Mar 1 2020
"The walls of the streets of downtown Santiago are covered with stickers, art, words and posters. The messages are varied and range from "Feminist power" to "All cops are bastards". They have taken over the walls of Zona Cero (Ground Zero), the name given to the area around Plaza de la Dignidad, where anti-government protests have been held - and at times brutally repressed by police - since 18 October.
'I am not your scapegoat': See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hate
Practitioner:
Kezia Gabriella, Andrew Kung, Kathleen Namgung, Cindy Trinh, Christine Fang, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Date:
Dec 27 2021
In mid-November, the nonprofit group Asian American Federation released 10 travel posters designed to subvert a question that can instantly get under the skin of any person of Asian descent in the United States: “Where are you really from?”
Controversy in the Wild Kingdom of Couture
Practitioner:
Kylie Jenner
Date:
Jan 25 2023
PARIS — Ten a.m. on a frigid Monday morning, the first day of the couture shows, and Kylie Jenner was strutting through the marble halls of the Petit Palais trying to find her seat for Schiaparelli, shoehorned into spiky stilettos and a black velvet one-arm gown, a full-size tawny lion’s head jutting from the side. It was as if Aslan had taken a break from Narnia and stuck his muzzle through a time-space continuum under her armpit.
Harris Reed is building a fantasy world for gender-fluid fashion
Practitioner:
Harris Reed
Date:
Feb 18 2021
Last June, Harris Reed became a member of the “Class of 2020” -- the crop of young fashion talent who graduated into an industry on rocky ground due to the pandemic. Over the eight months that have passed since earning his cap and gown at Central Saint Martins, Harris seems to have done a good job of finding his feet.
Activism by Duplication: "Untitled" (Death by Gun) (1990)
Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date:
Jan 1 1991
Activism through print media is often done through duplication: posters, flyers, magazines, manifestos. But with these media, each individual duplicate holds the same, political message. In Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" (Death by Gun) (1990), a stack of posters are placed in the gallery space for people to take with them. As the pile is depleted, more posters are printed.
Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Practitioner:
fnnch
Date:
Jan 29 2018
Local artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America--appeared all over SoMa late Sunday night, from the Embarcadero to Fifth Street.
GULF Protest at the Guggenheim
Practitioner:
GULF, Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction
Date:
Feb 22 2014
Last night, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night’s pay-what-you-wish admission hours.
Subversive Coloring Books
Practitioner:
various
Date:
Jan 1 1961
While adult coloring books are hitting a high note right now in 2016, this isn't the first time this has happened. Back in the 1960s, coloring books were so popular that one of them even made it to the New York Times bestseller list. However, while modern adult coloring books are very geometric and abstract, intended to help adults destress and relax, adult coloring books from the 1960s were much more political.
Politics, activism and cool cats by artist Meredith Stern at AS220 Project Space
Practitioner:
Meredith Stern
Date:
Feb 1 2020
“I really wanted to highlight the strength of the human condition. When we work together we’re stronger,” Meredith Stern says of her exhibition “Cooperation Cats: 10 years, 20 prints” at AS220’s Project Space, 93 Mathewson St., Providence, from Feb. 1 to 29.
Say No To Body Shame
Practitioner:
Mounica Tata
Date:
Aug 18 2020
Mounica Tata launched Doodleodrama as an online journal to improve representation for her body type in mainstream media. “I’ve always been an overweight person and bullied and shamed for the same. Only fairly recently I’ve learned to make my peace with my body. My own journey with my body inspired/continues to inspire me to talk about it.”
#MuslimVDay
Practitioner:
Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed
Date:
Feb 14 2018
“In these apocalyptic Islamophobic times, laughing in the face of the resistance can sometimes be the best medicine.” That may sound like the trailer to a good-bad movie, but that’s how Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed describes her awesome Muslim Valentine’s Day cards.
Street Art Project Uses Building Facades to Spread the Word About 314 Endangered Bird Species
Practitioner:
Audonon Mural Project
Date:
Jan 1 2016
In a visually captivating public art venture, the Audonon Mural Project seeks to raise awareness for species of birds threatened by climate change in a rather unconventional way—street art. A collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery, scatterings of stunning avian themed murals are cropping up throughout John James Audubon’s old Manhattan neighbourhood.
Do Not Talk About Climate Change
Practitioner:
Franke James
Date:
Oct 15 2013
Franke James put up "Do Not Talk about Climate Change" posters around cities to raise people's awareness on climate change issues.
Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality
Practitioner:
Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim
Date:
Mar 5 2013
“I want to show the people how bad the troubles were," says artist Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim of Mogadishu, Somalia. "That’s the message we’re going to send to people.” (Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times)

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