Radical Media Archive vol.1 maps the visual languages of counterculture, revolutionary, and mass-emancipation movements across the 1960s and 1970s — a document of graphic designers placing their talent in service of causes both righteous and deeply flawed.
About This Book
This is not a manifesto. It is an archive — and the distinction matters. Radical Media Archive vol.1 assembles the graphic design output of political and countercultural movements from the 1960s and 1970s, tracing how visual communication became inseparable from ideological struggle. Contributors range from anonymous street-level practitioners to figures of the stature of Milton Glaser, and the book refuses to flatten them into a single heroic narrative. Posters are placed in dialogue with record covers, underground comix, and advertising of the same period, revealing that visual richness transcended any single ideology. The first in a seven-volume series, this edition establishes the scope and critical framework for what promises to be a landmark survey of radical graphic design history.
Key Features
- 304 pages of archival graphic design imagery spanning political posters, record covers, underground comix, and period advertising
- Edited by R. Touhami, E. Shahidi, and T. Le Provost
- Features work ranging from anonymous designers to Milton Glaser
- Published by Permanent Files
What You'll Discover
- How graphic designers across the political spectrum subordinated aesthetic ambition to collective causes — and what that produced visually
- The cross-contamination between radical political imagery and commercial visual culture, including advertising, in the same historical moment
- The role of underground comix and record sleeve design as parallel sites of countercultural graphic production
- A comparative framework across movements — some successful, some excessive, some doomed — that resists the mythologising common to histories of this period
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9782959599903
- Publisher: Permanent Files
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Graphic designers, design historians, and visual culture researchers with an interest in political communication, countercultural movements, and the intersection of ideology and image-making.