Vintage Political Posters

Nevertheless, They Persisted: How a London Women's Collective Turned Anger Into Art
By Hunter Oatman-Stanford — Self-proclaimed "nasty women" are everywhere these days: testifying in court against their rapists and abusers, marching in the streets to protest assault and objectification, and shouting #MeToo and #TimesUp across all forms of social media. Thousands of women have shared their stories of sexism and sexual assault over the last few years, continuing a centuries-long push for greater equality across the gender divide. Many of these women are driven by anger at the systemic structures that...

David Lance Goines Discusses Perfect Poster Design
By Maribeth Keane — I don’t collect posters. I don’t collect anything. I started making posters one at a time by hand in high school just for specific events, basically got going when I was a freshman. I still make them today, but they’re printed on a printing press now. I’ve made 221 posters, not including the ones I did in high school. Fundamentally, I believe that in order to be effective as opposed to artsy and not really effective at all, a poster has to be extremely simple. The Shepard Fairey posters...