Strikethrough! : typographic messages of protest / Silas Munro ; cocurated by Stephen Coles ; introduction by Colette Gaiter.

San Francisco, CA : Letterform Archive, [2022]
New York, NY : ARTBOOK / D.A.P.
©2022

280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

"Organized into chapters that explore the many ways to express dissent (RESIST!, VOTE!, STRIKE!, TEACH! and LOVE!), Strikethrough presents more than 120 signs, posters, publications and ephemera in vivid imagery and incisive prose. From the colorful affiches of the Paris '68 uprising to Memphis strike workers' placards to the Black Panthers' newspaper, this generously illustrated volume showcases the role of graphic design in a wide range of protest movements in the United States and abroad. Including selections from artists and art collectives such as Jenny Holzer, the Guerrilla Girls and Fierce Pussy, this book provides a broad and critical survey of the typographics of activism. Strikethrough also features 10 profiles on the designers behind the graphics--including Corita Kent, Emory Douglas and Ben Shahn--and a custom display typeface based on historical protest graphics by Tré Seals, plus an introduction by activist and design scholar Colette Gaiter and an essay on type by Stephen Coles. Charting a typographic chant of resistance that spans more than 150 years, Strikethrough curators Silas Munro and Stephen Coles reveal how the message makes its way to the masses via marker, screen print, spray paint, collage and both physical and digital type, and how it calls on us all to craft our own demands for social change. Exhibition: Letterform Archive, San Francisco, USA (23.07.2022 - 14.01.2023)." --Provided by publisher.

Silas Munro is a partner of the design studio Polymode. Collaborations include works with the City of Los Angeles Mayor's Office; the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; the Getty Museum; MoMA; and MOCA. Munro's writing appears in W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America, Smithsonian Magazine, the New Yorker, and Black Perspectives. He is a coauthor of the first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design. He is founding faculty and cochair of the MFA in Graphic Design program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

9781736863305 (hardback)
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Graphic arts Social aspects Exhibitions.
Graphic arts Political aspects Exhibitions.
Graphic design (Typography) Social aspects Exhibitions.
Visual communication Political aspects Exhibitions.
Social movements History.
Arts graphiques Aspect social Expositions.
Arts graphiques Aspect politique Expositions.
Mouvements sociaux Histoire.
Contestation Ouvrages illustrés.
Communication visuelle Aspect politique Expositions.
Visual communication Political aspects
Graphic arts Social aspects

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Munro, Silas, 1981- curator.
Coles, Stephen, curator.
Gaiter, Colette, 1955- writer of introduction.
Letterform Archive, host institution, issuing body.

Strike through!

Location: Library main 317168
Call No.: 317168
Copy: 1
Status: Available