“Don’t Let Racism Divide Us.” ‘So Long as Women Are Not Free, the People Are Not Free.” And, simply, “Protest.” Poster slogans from the women’s marches in January? Actually, they’re slogans from a ...

Carol A. Wells is the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles, the largest archive of post-World War II political posters in the U.S.

Dozens of protests have erupted around the U.S. since the bombshell leak signaling the end of Roe v. Wade. If you’re thinking of joining the crowd, here’s what you can do to make your poster stand out ...

Stephen Somerstein, “Two mothers with children watching marchers on porch” (1965) (courtesy the photographer and the New-York Historical Society) Three uptown cultural institutions in New York City ...

From the Black Panthers and LGBTQ+ movement, to the Summer of Love and punk music, counterculture has long defined the Bay Area — and posters, buttons, zines and newspapers have always been a means ...

You can tear out any of the book’s 50 posters and use them to protest. [Image: courtesy Princeton Architectural Press] A new book called Posters for Change from the Princeton Architectural Press ...

In May 1970, students at the University of California, Berkeley, came together to form the Berkeley Political Poster Workshop, which produced hundreds of silkscreen designs. In May 1970, students at ...

Art Hazelwood and Logan, artists of the San Francisco Poster Syndicate, pose for a portrait at the Valencia Street art wall. Photo by Junyao Yang on Dec. 15, 2025. They gather in the back of the crowd ...

This post was originally published in Chinese on the Stand News on February 25, 2021. The English version is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement with the Stand News. A ...

To occupy Wall Street, a graphic designer named Will Brown crowned a statue of a bull with a ballerina. This simple visual juxtaposition, first published in Adbusters in the summer of 2011, became the ...

Two gray posters depict the October 13, 2022, protest at Sitong Bridge. The top poster shows a lone protester, dressed in an orange jumpsuit and yellow hard hat, standing on a bridge with his red and ...