Armed By Design
Posters and Publications of Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL)

Edited by Josh MacPhee,Interference Archive,Sarah Seidman,Jen Hoyer,Lani Hanna,Vero Ordez

ISBN13: 9781945335143

Imprint: Common Notions

Publisher: Common Notions

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Published: 27/02/2025

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Description
Graphic design and political solidarity work in revolutionary Cuba through the lens of OPSAAAL (Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America) and its cultural production. Armed by Design reflects on the intersection of graphic design and political solidarity work in revolutionary Cuba through the lens of the production of OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. 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).
Introduction Lani Hanna, Jen Hoyer, Josh MacPhee, Vero Ordaz, Sarah Seidman PART ONE On Tricontinentalism Sarah Seidman Third World Struggle in Motion: Alfredo Rostgaard’s Design for the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America Josh MacPhee Introduction to the Visual Index of the Tricontinental Lani Hanna and Rob McBride PART TWO As Big as the World: An Interview with Jane Norling Lani Hanna, Vero Ordaz, and Jane Norling Cuba and the Revolutionary Option in the Arab World Nate George The Winged Horse of Global Solidarity: OSPAAAL Posters and the North Korean-Cuban Alliance Sohl Lee Influences Between U.S. and Cuban Poster Art Lincoln Cushing PART THREE The Carlos Vega Collection of OSPAAAL Posters Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey Hero Genesis in OSPAAAL Posters and Cuban Comics Javier Gaston-Greenberg Los carteles de la OSPAAAL y el efecto de halo Ernesto Menendez-Conde Passafronteras: Notes on Archives, Tricontinental Graphic Action, and Solidarity André Mesquita Between Two Worlds: A Conversation with Joseph Orzal Joseph Orzal
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