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Made in reaction to having A-level exam results down-graded.
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A sideways look at activism.
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A collaborative print edition made especially for Reverting to Type 2020.

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A collaborative print edition made especially for Reverting to Type 2020.

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A collaborative print edition made especially for Reverting to Type 2020.

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A collaborative print edition made especially for Reverting to Type 2020.

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There is a time and place for ‘Keep calm and carry on’ – but I propose a new line that stirs people into action: ‘Yes, panic’. A deadline in design often helps spur you on to find a solution, so a healthy sense of urgency can hopefully also work in terms of global issues and inspire people to act and help steer the world in a better direction.

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I am indebted to Gill Scott Heron an aspiring poet and performer. He has lead the way in stirring the spirits of many of us who seek radical change.
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This was inspired by the school strikes for climate, which made me think about children’s rights and who has the most to lose.
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No truth is absolute.
No fact faced without friction.
Replace all that is fake
with authenticity and integrity
... for fuck’s sake.

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A soundbite from a cassette course in Neuro Linguistic Programming or a description of the social political loops we find ourselves locked in?

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Letterpress and pigment print on Kozuke archival paper. Unique.

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Letterpress and pigment print on Kozuke archival paper. Unique.

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Letterpress and pigment print on Kozuke archival paper. Unique.

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A three-dimensional language. Using British Sign Language the poster spells out the words Silent and Protest.

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The poster is about stigma and discrimination due to menstruation. 50% of the population menstruate at some point. In many countries, the life of women become limited when they start to menstruate. For many girls this means loosing access to schooling, lack of sufficient hygiene measures and also puts them in danger of being married of without consent. In the western world tampons and pads are marketed as "luxury products", illustrated by blue fluid. Menstruation is still strongly linked to shame, something that should be hid away, which some women in fact are when they have their periods. Even so menstruation is fundamental for human life to exist, something that should be celebrated. I have attempted to make the message nearly hidden by printing red on red - the color of blood - and also symbolize anger, love, passion and revolution. But you need to come close, as the message is partly hidden in plain sight, like a secret being whispered from one girl to another.

This quote was taken from Mary Wollstonecraft's crucial piece of work: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, written in 1792 and even more than 200 years later, is still particularly relevant. A writer and philosopher far ahead of her time, her short book blisteringly argues for the education of women, increased female participation in everyday society and social order founded on reason.

We are all immigrants from somewhere, some more recently than others. This one's for those of us who wouldn't be here without our predecessors' paving the way, making new homes on foreign soil, mixing cultures, languages, traditions, genes. Celebrate the diaspora that made you!

We released this print to celebrate the creation of the Nation Health Service in the UK. Launched in 1948 by Aneurin Bevan, the health secretary, at Park Hospital in Manchester it was the climax of a hugely ambitious plan to bring good healthcare to all. This quote comes from his later book, In Place of Fear, published in 1952, and encapsulates the guiding principles of the NHS on it’s 70th anniversary

A typographic letterpress poster influenced by the global equality protests... it is 'time for change'.

From our place of residence, where this year the most risky migratory route to reach Europe has been reactivated, we talk about the incongruity between our values ?? that define us as humanity and the harsh reality in the migration process. The dreams and hopes that are left behind when they collide with the borders that humans have built between us.

This poster is printed in three colours on a 1950s Soldan proofing press, directly from hand-typeset wooden type and lasercut hardboard.

This poster is printed in three colours on a 1950s Soldan proofing press, directly from hand-typeset wooden typefaces, perspex-faced border units and P22-Blox modular ornaments

This poster is printed in three colours on a 1950s Soldan proofing press, directly from hand-typeset wooden type, P22-Blox and lasercut geometric ornaments.

In 2018 Mary Plunkett was invited to make a response print to the National Print Museum's exhibition, "Print, Protest and The Polls: The Irish women’s suffrage campaign and the power of print media”. The Irish Women’s Franchise League was founded in 1908 as an organization for women’s suffrage. Its paper was ‘The Irish Citizen’, published from 1912 to 1920. To mark the centenary of the first female vote in Ireland and the impact of print, Mary chose to commemorate this radical newspaper and one of its founders, the Irish feminist, educator and journalist, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. This letterpress print makes use of the Irish colours as the Irish suffragettes wore traditional dress to stand out from the other nationalities at the major rallies in Britain and is based on a quote from Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and the motto of the Irish Citizen, ‘For Men and Women Equally The Rights of Citizenship; For Men and Women Equally The Duties of Citizenship’.

Socio-critical poster printed from laser-cut and hand-torn MDF, hand-cut linoleum and metal type. 2017, edition of 1500.

This poster for a club was fighting agains an old law, that would prohibit to dance on certain holidays. Like for example it was allowed to have a party on Christmas evening, you were allowed to dring and everything. But just not to dance! I made this poster for the club season when there was a vote – the law got killed. 

Is it a protest? It sure is!

One of three posters in a series that uses type dating back to the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution (celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2020) granting women the right to vote. The subject matter is a sarcastic call out, renaming the pro-life movement for what it is and what it in reality does to women once a child is born. Each poster also reminds men they have the luxury to not have to take any action on the issue.

One of three posters in a series that uses type dating back to the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution (celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2020) granting women the right to vote. The subject matter is a sarcastic call out, renaming the pro-life movement for what it is and what it in reality does to women once a child is born. Each poster also reminds men they have the luxury to not have to take any action on the issue.

One of three posters in a series that uses type dating back to the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution (celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2020) granting women the right to vote. The subject matter is a sarcastic call out, renaming the pro-life movement for what it is and what it in reality does to women once a child is born. Each poster also reminds men they have the luxury to not have to take any action on the issue.

Two colour letterpress poster on the theme of climate change using the chemical formulae of the greenhouse gases Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide to form the copy.

Letterpress poster printed using recycled bicycle sprockets to reinforce the 'Recycle the Roads' message

A red Handmaiden formed by an inverted exclamation mark is trapped within a block of text 'Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum' which has been overprinted multiple times to create a barely legible block.

Conmenmorative Print [typo intentional]. Printed onto 250gsm 100% cotton paper with vintage letterpress type.

Giulio Regeni was killed in Egypt in 2016 and his body found along a road, in terrible conditions. Silence by the Egyptian government is a big deal in this case. Giulio's family is still waiting for the truth.

The last verse of PB Shelley's Mask of Anarchy set in wood and metal type.

A quote from Tony Benn's farewell speech in the House of Commons overprinted on a photograph of him. Printed from metal type and photopolymer plate.

Printed in wood and metal type on yellow paper. The proceeds of any sales will be sent in full to the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign.

Inspired by the covid-19 lockdown measures in The Netherlands. I saw so many people still getting together, not keeping safe distance, while at the same time doctors and nurses were working overtime to save lives. So I printed a poster to hang in the window to urge people to really stay the fuck home. Letterpress printed with wooden letters and linocut shapes.

Printed for Letterpress Workers 2019. Inspiration: resist your computer-, smartphone-, laptop-, iPad-screen and do more offline! Printed with wood type, hand-cut wood hashtags, lasercut plywood shapes.

'Ik heb geen talent voor ondergeschiktheid' ('I have no talent for subordination') is a quote by 18th century Dutch female writer and composer Belle van Zuylen. It is a quote close to my heart. Printed with wood type, hand-inked, in cooperation with Crisje van Leest (Atelier Letterpret).

Handset letterpress on plastic Yupo. Collaboration with artist Peter Lyssiotis towards a folio for Extraction: Overburden 2021, inspired by newsagent splash banners and projecting a Murdoch-style voice. This is a special Reverting to Type edition of 4. WARNING: this is not fine printing. This is not careful or neat. This is a deliberately variable edition fueled by rage and frustration.

Handset letterpress on plastic Yupo. Collaboration with artist Peter Lyssiotis towards a folio for Extraction: Overburden 2021, inspired by newsagent splash banners and projecting a Murdoch-style voice. This is a special Reverting to Type edition of 4. WARNING: this is not fine printing. This is not careful or neat. This is a deliberately variable edition fueled by rage and frustration.

Handset letterpress on plastic Yupo. Collaboration with artist Peter Lyssiotis towards a folio for Extraction: Overburden 2021, inspired by newsagent splash banners and projecting a Murdoch-style voice. This is a special Reverting to Type edition of 4. WARNING: this is not fine printing. This is not careful or neat. This is a deliberately variable edition fueled by rage and frustration.

Protect our Winters. We must all be more aware of the warming of our world. A simple and impactful poster representing this fact.

Climate change, I feel, is the biggest issue facing humanity on this planet. Not enough is being done to combat the earths decline. This print was inspired by the well known recruitment poster from the Great War, 1915.

A sister piece to the Daddy what did you do to fight climate change? This print is an adaption of a well known graffiti; A nation of sheep, led by wolves, owned by pigs.

Local councils banned surfing and ocean swimming whilst we were all social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic. Though walking, jogging and cycling were still allowed. Being in the water is critical for many Bondi locals for mental wellbeing. Inspiration from Apocalypse Now's General Kilgore's remarks about Charlie's Point. Footnote: The ban was overturned and we are now back in the water.

Words: Howard Zinn. Made in the time of Covid-19 after ten years of austerity and Brexit using traditional letterpress processes.

Words: Howard Zinn. Made in the time of Covid-19 after ten years of austerity and Brexit using traditional letterpress processes.

Fragment from a speech of Harry Bridges

Quote from Dario Fiori

Sending Smoke Signals is printed with 24pt Square Border. The smoke signal is an ancient form of long distance communication; a signal of danger or distress. This print is based on media images of the police clashing with innocent protestors. The smoke is of flares and tear gas; familiar images seen across the world. A cry for help.

This print commemorates the working people who formed an uprising to protest the rejection of a reform bill in the House of Lords which would have enabled working men to have a vote. The Queen Square riot, with other protests, led to the formation of the Chartist and Suffragette movements.

Lino cut by artist Luke Carter. Printed letterpress in three colours on Somerset Buff. Printed on the FAG Swiss Proof 40 and Albion Press. Hand-set type and wooden decorative rules. The text has been printed on the Albion Press that was made one year after the Riots in 1832.

Letterpress-printed poster to mark the publication of Richard King’s book The Lark Ascending. Water illustration by Jon McNaught. Printed four colours on a FAG Swissproof press. The second image relates to some graffiti scratched onto a sign forbidding entry on the banks of the River Wye.

Printed on Meta Paper Rough Warm White 160 gsm in Black and Red Day-Glo ink. From original 40 cic Artz wood type on our Korrex Berlin Special Kraft.

TRUCK FUMP! as a postcard, printed letterpress in a very limited edition by hand on a Boston Platen Press in Red Day-Glo ink, set in 72 point Block metal type.

Printed on MetaPaper Rough Warm White 160 gsm in Black and Pantone Warm Red ink. From original wood and metal type on our Korrex Frankfurt.

Leave oil in the ground

The NAIDOC 2020 theme – Always Was, Always Will Be – recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. This poster invites all Australians to embrace and acknowledge the true history of this country – a history which dates back thousands of generations.

I AM MY SISTER'S/ BROTHER'S KEEPER is strictly letterpress printed. Inspired by the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers and lack of accountability for the murder of Breonna Taylor. These are two, but there are so many more. Now is a time when people are speaking out and are demanding justice for the injustices, demanding justice for those who cannot speak for themselves. I AM MY SISTER'S KEEPER means we watch out, protect, show up, love, and care for one another. When we become our sister and brother's keeper, positive changes can happen. The printing of these protest posters are intentionally kept clean, a solid background to signify solidarity and handset wood type printed in black that embodies strength on a heavy bristol paper.

Screen-printed poster using charcoal from the Australian bush fires as a printing medium.

Screen-print poster sold to raise funds for War Child charity

Screen-print poster sold to raise funds for 'The Black Curriculum'

Letterpress poster from a limited edition of 10. Hand-pulled. Two-color.

Letterpress print from wood and metal type. A plea to UK citizens to find common ground in the aftermath of the UK 'Brexit' referendum and subsequent UK departure from the EU at the end of January 2020.

We created this poster with our design partner from @clearlyrecords in response to the Black Lives Matter protests in the US. We printed several versions on a Vandercook Universal 1 and sold the posters to support a local organization that works with young people to increase opportunities in education and the arts. We can't think of anything more important in the arts right now than giving voice to people around the world fighting for justice.

While doing some information gathering and research in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing at the hands of the police, I came across the documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," on American poet, writer and civil rights activist, James Baldwin. This quote from the film resonated with me: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." Not only does it speak to the social and racial unrest going on in America--and worldwide--but I think it also pertains to so many other facets of life.

Riffing off of the often seen sign in stores, "No shoes, no shirt, no service," I made a new version as a sign of these times, inserting the mask.

It's actually true, that whenI am printing I am practicing social distancing--naturally, and during normal times as well as during the Covid pandemic.

We all obey different people, ideals & instructions in the multiple facets of our lives. Sometimes we feel self-determining, other times we squirm under perceived & actual authority. Life is rich and varied, the best we can do is keep our minds open & our wits about us. This print explores the uncomfortable duality of power via the lyrics of Inoculated City by The Clash.

Printed using 6 line woodtype, 30pt Univers, 10pt baskerville italic and the woodwormed hand of oppression/revolt. Edition of 20.

Appropriating a children's verse to highlight the environmental emergency of loss of marine life and diversity. The large woodtype 5 in this print becomes a net with the last little fishy escaping from its negative space, to a hopefully better future...or perhaps contained within the bowl as a symbol of loss. Which interpretation will prove to be our grandchildren's reality as we teach them this rhyme?

Printed using woodtype number orphans and Bodoni Ultra metal type. Edition of 20

In chaos theory butterflies are powerful metaphors for insignificant tiny actions and their ultimate unintended massive consequences. This couplet from Blake’s Auguries of Innocence written in the 1800’s intertwines with the words of Greta Thunberg from the 2020’s. Together they emphasise the disgrace of our human history of reckless disregard for our precious home, the Earth.

Printed in 5 passes using 1 butterfly block, 8-Line woodtype and 10pt Univers. Edition of 20

If not us then who. If not now when. Letterpress printed poster using wood and metal type.

Typeset from wood & metal type and printed on FAG Standard 510.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Like Sea Level We Rise, there has never been a more critical time to harness collective momentum for positive change. Letterpress and Linocut.

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, My body, my words
My thoughts, my doubts
My hope, my pain
My fears, my tears
My voice, my choice
My body, my choice

Letterpress and polymer

Politics: Our systems are broken! With a dick in change expect cock-ups / when our leaders are dicks a whole lot of fucking is what we can expect. This poster was in part inspired by the grafitti on political billboards that litter our landscape in the lead up to our elections. Also in a form of self-plagiarism this print builds on the language of my 2017 red white and blue Trump protest prints and previous political prints created for pissed modernism and the future is female but is non specific to location (or dick) as the political failures are much broader than in the US.

Letterpress and Polymer

Historically, the printing press is meant to elevate voices; the printing press is freedom protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Upon the murder of George Floyd, amidst a global pandemic, I felt that the best thing to do was to react through my press. I wanted to make something that could be as loud or as passive as the person holding/hanging it preferred it to be. Because I am a white woman, I felt strongly about staying in my lane and only speaking on behalf of myself and other white allies. I set out to create something for those who are not ready to step outside their comfort zones by taking to the streets but wish to communicate their support for equality. It is my only hope that these prints provide some sense of solidarity for every set of eyes who view them.

Handset wood and lead type printed on coated stock in black ink. Two-sided print.

BUY BYE is a response to our times and the mess we are in. It is hopefully the starting point for a larger series of works entitled the writing is on the wall. It was printed on a Farley Proofing Press which was rescued from Chelsea School of Art in the early 90s.

Metro Standard was printed on the Wharfedale Reliance at Robert Smail's Printing Works and is inspired by Wonk Unit's We are the England. Profits from the sale of this print will go to a local group supporting vulnerable children in Lothian and the Scottish Borders.

At the end of the 1930s, the artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) joined the team of Otto Neurath, director of the Society and Economy Museum of Vienna, in a project that ended in 1934 with the creation of ISOTYPE, in The Hague (Holland). The project was about a graphic system in which the world could be described throughout synthetic images representing different fields ranging from industry or demography to politics or economics. Almost a century later the project “Spain … is different” participates, not only in the language of Arntz, but also in its critical spirit, portraying a (spanish) society resigned and submissive to the inequalities and abuses of the elites and their leaders, showing a system in which these wealthy classes are perpetuated while the differences between the first and second class citizens are magnified.

THERE IS NO PLANet B

I*M standing ON what I STAND FOR

USE LESS PApeR

A catchy little number that i increasingly find circulating round my subconscious whenever i see or read the news now a days...

Fuck those fucking tories

Edition of 15. Printed in Hawthorn Mid Blue on Canson Yellow stock. 1 colour letterpress print, printers block and 14pt, 18pt, 24pt and 36pt Times Metal Type.

I do not accept the idea that the murder and brutalisation of people of colour by police officers around the world as the actions of ‘a few bad cops’. Responding to the death of innocent civilians at the hands of a racist police force by saying ‘but it’s not all cops’ or ‘my relative is a cop and they’re not racist’ just isn’t gonna cut it. The actions of every officer of the law reflect the collective ideology of the justice system. Where murder and racism are actions that are protected and defended as opposed to met with outrage and imprisonment. Where officers resign in protest after their colleagues are disciplined for brutality and protect their buddies houses’ after they’ve killed an innocent human being. Where police officers claim victimisation for the treatment they receive for the choices they make, all whilst propping up a system that literally allows others to get away with murder in full view of the world without repercussions. Until there is a justice system that holds its enforcers accountable it must be regarded with suspicion and distrust, for it does not serve to protect the people. Can be exhibited one way up or the other, i'll leave it you to decide. Edition of 10. 3 colour letterpress print, print in 4, 6, 10 and 12 line Grotesque in Hawthorne Mid Blue, Vermillion and Jobbing Black

A letterpress poster printed for display on the walls of Cambridge University's Senate House to stop phone calls, recordings and pictures being taken during confidential or 'sensitive' University gatherings. The University Proctors

Linoleum carving with wood type - created for the Women's March in Washington D.C., United States.

Linoleum carving with wood type. Created for immigration detention center protest rally in Seattle, WA, United States.

The large letters are hand made colographs and were part of a community led Alphabet installation September 2019 in Stroud. Titled 'R is for revolution' The question posed to the general public was ' What does revolution mean to you personally? The people of Stroud replied and contributed to the installation with letterpress streamers, the installation then became a venue for poetry, music and DJ events. I am now using the collagraphed alphabet together with letterpress to create an activist series of posters with my prime inspiration being climate change, green economics and the environment.

The large letters are hand made colographs and were part of a community led Alphabet installation September 2019 in Stroud. Titled 'R is for revolution' The question posed to the general public was ' What does revolution mean to you personally? The people of Stroud replied and contributed to the installation with letterpress streamers, the installation then became a venue for poetry, music and DJ events. I am now using the collagraphed alphabet together with letterpress to create an activist series of posters with my prime inspiration being climate change, green economics and the environment.

The large letters are hand made colographs and were part of a community led Alphabet installation September 2019 in Stroud. Titled 'R is for revolution' The question posed to the general public was ' What does revolution mean to you personally? The people of Stroud replied and contributed to the installation with letterpress streamers, the installation then became a venue for poetry, music and DJ events. I am now using the collagraphed alphabet together with letterpress to create an activist series of posters with my prime inspiration being climate change, green economics and the environment.

A call to end the privatisation of British Industry, and to Save the NHS. Sold industries are shown as items on a receipt, with the dates they were sold as prices. Letterpressed using polymer plates in 2 layers on rich Adiron Blue 270g paper stock.

My children and their future are the inspiration behind the protest poster. Mediums are Woodblock and digital.

Letterpress printing with furniture and wood type.

Printed metallic silver on cotton rag paper. This print was made with the sad realisation that all the positive changes I had expected as a teenager have not materialised. The oppression and systemic abuse and murder of black people has continued as it has for centuries.

Printed metallic silver on cotton rag paper. This print was made with the sad realisation that all the positive changes I had expected as a teenager have not materialised. The oppression and systemic abuse and murder of black people has continued as it has for centuries.

Letterpress Triptych 1/3. A comment on social housing by collaborative project p_e_a_k_a_y_, which is Paul Wardski and Klara Vith. Edition of 10.

Letterpress Triptych 2/3. A comment on social housing by collaborative project p_e_a_k_a_y_, which is Paul Wardski and Klara Vith. Edition of 10.

Letterpress Triptych 3/3. A comment on social housing by collaborative project p_e_a_k_a_y_, which is Paul Wardski and Klara Vith. Edition of 10.

Inspired by and created to take part in the city and nationwide protests for racial equality. Black Lives Matter. Handset wood and metal type, printed on a Vandercook Universal II, on French Paper.

Celebrating the 5th and 6th Anniversaries of Marriage Equality in the state of Indiana and the United States. Handset wood and metal type, printed on a Vandercook Universal II, on French Paper.

Celebrating the life of John Lewis and his important work for racial equality in the United States. His words are as important now as when he first said them. Handset wood and metal type, printed on a Vandercook Universal II, on French Paper.

Woodletter transferred to lithographic stone with letterpress.

Letterpress with relief print

One colour letterpress print. Created by transferring a reversed linocut of the word LIES onto an inker brayer, before then rolling the brayer across the paper to create the positive printed background. Wood type was then overprinted on top.

Four Colour Linocut and Letterpress Print

Two Colour Letterpress Print

I printed this poster on Neenah Enviro100 cover stock using hand-set wood type. The oblique typeface I used creates a cool double-angled motion that was an idea I've carried for a while in my head that was re-ignited by your 'Protest Posters' wordmark: using the opposite angles to play on in idea. This idea grew out of my own process of breaking down my culturally-taught binary gender system to allow room for diversity in my mind, and in my life. It's hard work, but we need to fight to change this so that kids, teens, and adults have the opportunity to be their authentic selves and be accepted, and welcomed.

Two colour letterpress print - responding to the inability of government to empathise with the day-today experiences of the electorate.

Single colour letterpress print

Single colour letterpress print

Poster printed with handset wood and metal type on a Provisional Press using Revere Suede paper with white and red ink encouraging people to vote smart, in opposition to the current president that is anything but.

Woodcut print on paper. Do you speak my language? loudly celebrates the many languages spoken everyday across the UK. It was conceived as a protest print against a racist sign titled ’Happy Brexit Day’ that was put up in communal hallways on 31st January 2020. The inward-looking, disheartening and polarising sign demanded that all residents speak the ‘Queen’s English’ or leave.

Inequalities are systemic. Therefore, the system that produced the inequality is broken. Therefore, a new system is required.

The artist's portion of any sales will be donated to Manchester-based charity RECLAIM: "RECLAIM is a youth leadership and social change organisation. We exist to create a society in which being from a working-class background no longer presents barriers to achievement, success, or influence."

This work explores semantics and the speed with which seemingly neutral language can move sequentially into a clear judgement. It started with imagery created from a collagraph matrix and Monoblox shapes. That imagery generated a simple phrase - "symbols trapped in repeat motion" - which was printed and overprinted repeatedly. That phrase was then put through online translation software from English into five different languages (chosen at random) and then back into English. This process was repeated four times in sequence using each new phrase. The result is the four different phrases that are overlaid onto the original: "caught in repeated movements", "symptoms of imbalance appear", "signs of prejudice", "signs of inequality".

Three colour linocut letterpress print. Inspired by one of the most famous exchanges in Rock 'n' Roll history. In 1966, in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, a disgruntled fan shouts 'Judas', and after some back-and-forth Dylan turns to his band and tells them to 'PLAY IT FUCKIN' LOUD' - before launching into a blistering version of 'Like a Rolling Stone'. So, in a sense, it's Dylan protesting a fan's protest about Dylan not playing protest songs... protest x3.

One Strong Arm teamed up with GCN and Evgeny Shtorn to create a print to celebrate Pride and support Ireland’s LGBT+ press. Printed in 5 colour split fountain, with wood and metal type.

This print was produced in response to the The National Print Museum's show entitled “Print, Protest and The Polls: The Irish women’s suffrage campaign and the power of print”. Inspired by the protest posters from 1918, and exploring the parallels with contemporary issues connected to women's rights. Created at a pivotal time in Irish history, as Ireland attempted to come to grips with national feelings about reproductive rights.

Without nature we are condemned to perish, therefore ecocide is a crime against humanity.

Fortunately, nature will rise again from our ashes, as has happened in Hiroshima (Hibakujumoku Trees) and in Chernobyl (exclusion zone's new biodiversity).

Laser letters wood

Etching paper, van Son ink, font: Falstaff, mask

I wanted an opportunity to give my 66-line pica large Clarendon Condensed an outing: `say it in TYPE' was already set up and proofed when I heard Ben Comeau's masterly 6-part Baroque fugue `Boris Johnson is a lying shit'. The fugue's repeated text suggested my border setting in the very condensed 10-line pica sans-serif - also called Grotesque!

A triptych featuring a sarcastic take on 'To Protect and to Serve', the motto of the American police.

Letterpress printed with woodtype on a grafix

Wooden Poster Type, 120gsm pulp paper. The printing press directly led to a large scale increase in literacy and the widespread dissemination of information after Gutenberg, also the promotion of democratic ideas through revolutionaries such as Tom Paine. In this age, where we are increasingly monitored through digital communication, I feel the traditionally printed political broadside and pamphlet are due a revival. This work is not valuable in itself and the materials used are not of high quality, however it can easily be destroyed by burning, once the message has been received. Letterpress also has very little impact on the environment, unlike many other reprographic processes.

Inspired on a conversation about the malaises inherited by colonisation, pointing the sheer fear of sometimes standing up to slurs, stereotypes, insults or abuse on behalf of others that are in a more fragile standing than us at that particular moment. We are both foreigners on our countries of choice, but also non-black people of colour, one of us is a woman, one of us is Jewish.

We are not Afraid is printed in bold dynamic letters, yet printed on a fragile 100gsm Conqueror Air that conveys that sense of fragility.

This trio of posters were designed as a collaboration with the artist Victoria Maria Bee from Lubbock Texas as a conjoint effort to support the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. as part of 'Printmaking As Resistance' during the Spring of 2020.

The challenge designing these posters was to try to understand the magnitude of the abuses that the black communities face in the U.S., as non-black person of colour I've faced racial and gender discrimination, but I am quite certain never at the level of a black person. I wanted them to be 'positive' to remove them from the media portrayal of the demonstrators that were being labelled as savages, ransackers and provocateurs. Black communities or minorities it seems always have to choose to be either 'the better man', the contained ones but at the same time 'be angry'.

Protest poster printed in March 11th 2020 after Putin was supposed to be a president more times. And that was a reason to change Constitution. This poster worked very well more times during 2020 in Russia. Printed with original Cyrillic woodtype, offset paper Impact 80 gsm, one color (red vintage Hungarian 1989), 10 copies.

Inspired by George Orwell's book, Animal Farm, which touches on ideas of freedom, rebellion and the corruption of power. Although, published in 1945, common themes of this book are very much present in todays society. What really happened to Snowball?

Whether we like it or not, politics will continue to influence and shape the society and world that we live in. It's questionable how positive or negative this influence will be. One thing I am certain about, when it comes to trumps, I will always pick mine over that one in America!

A rallying cry to people to wake up and realise their leaders lie and mislead them on a daily basis to suit their own political agendas. This print was created on a western proofing press and uses a combination of wood letter type, ornament and laser cut plates.

We really are stuck in a place we never thought we'd end up. With the crazy people in charge. Utilising the classic lyrics from Stealers Wheel to highlight the constant barrage of utter idiots we proferred as our political leaders to guide and support us. Is it any wonder the world is struggling?

Inspired by the wonderful penmanship of Nick Lowe. 'As I walk through this wicked world searching' for light in the darkness and insanity. I ask myself, is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred and misery? And each time I feel like this inside there's one thing I wanna know, what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?'

The embossed laminate paper for this print (original useage unknown) is roughly 50yrs old. Found in a now closed jobbing print shop on the border between Islington and Hackney, North London. It has lasted, in a damp basement for as long I, at the bottom of a pile of various papers almost 3 meteres high, in an almost pristine fashion. London, being my hometown, I can offer no objective opinion on it, as all hometowns form you, so does this one. The prints' history lies in the London riots in 2011, quickly forgotten and concreted over the year after, for the Olympics, except for the subsequent public flogging and vilification of persons involved. The mayor for London had been sacked for lying prior to their appointment. The trickle down promised, was more a drought. You could squat, be educated at a university for free, maybe even consider buying a property at a reasonable price as little as 50 years ago, when London was considered shit. So yes, let's make London shit again.

Disco Sucks was a movement founded by the Dj Steve Dahl in Chicago. 'Dahls' campaigning was far from unique. Dislike for disco was everywhere. The rock generation saw it as the antithesis of all that was holy: no visible musicians, no 'real' stars, no 'live' performances. It was music based wholly on consumption, music with no aesthetic purpose, indeed with no purpose at all other than making your body twitch involuntarily. Dehumanising, expressionless, content-less - the judgements were daming.' 'Disco simply underwent some cosmetic enhancements, changed its' name a couple of times, and had its' mail forwarded to a less glitzy neighbourhood.'

BE IN, BE IN, BE IN, BE IN! We must BE ACTIVE participants in our society! BEING is existing! As we enter unknown futures we must activate, we must strive to take control over the information we consume and the steps that we take. To change our society we must do more than participate in protest we must define the protest. To do this we, as a society must BE IN! We must BE - Involved, Influential, International, Inspirational, Industrious, Inquisitive, Individual, Innovative, Informed, Invincible. Buckminster Fuller said "You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.” Our new model must be created by an informed and engaged society, apathy is the enemy of our protest, the enemy of our future. BE IN, BE IN, BE IN, BE IN! Letterpress Print. Printing using Wood Type, Metal Type and Brass Rules using fluorescent orange and grey inks on Munken Lynx Rough 170gsm.

My posters are a response to the current state of the UK political environment. Referencing the empemera of the 18th century broadside and 20th century Socialist posters of the Soviet era. 'The Truth' was made in response to a personal situation but is both liberately ambiguous and a blatant simple statement to be read as the viewer takes it. 'Revolt' is not a call to action but rather a prediction of the future should we continue on the path we find ourselves. 'Pull em Off' is in support of the movement of removing offensive sculptures from elevated positions. The grinning skeleton is both comical yet mocking the viewer. It's time has come.

Wood type and collagraph print

Wood type and collagraph print

The poster is printed on a printing press in Halden, Norway. It was made by Stener Vaagland and Martin Hofseth, and was inspired by the recent protests in Norway against SIAN (Stop the islamification of Norway). It contains the word "police" printed on top of the word "racists" and illustrates the police standing in front of the racists, protecting them and giving them a platform to preach hate and burn holy books etc.

Recently there's been a demand from students and young adults around Norway to lower the housing rent which has increased exponentially the past decade. Not only is it nearly impossible for first time buyers to get in the housing market, but even the rent market is incredibly expensive. Additionally, the apartments/houses for rent are often in bad condition, with little space. Instead of getting your own place, you often have to settle for shared housing, despite working full time. This protest poster was made as a response to that. It was pressed three times. first with wood type in fluorescent pink. then the frame with lead type and then finally the linocut man that was hand rolled on. It was made by Hannah Ødegård and Kainat Jawaid, two graphic design students from Oslo National Academy of the Arts at Halden Print Workshop.

Edition size: 20. Courtesy of Advanced Graphics London

Courtesy of Advanced Graphics London

Courtesy of Advanced Graphics London

Letterpress on paper from wood and metal type

Letterpress on paper from wood and metal type

Letterpress on paper from wood and metal type

This broadside was produced for the National Print Museum in response to their exhibition ‘Print, Protest and the Polls: The Irish women’s suffrage campaign and the power of print media, 1908– 1918’. The piece was made in advance of the looming Irish abortion referendum. Proceeds from the sale of this work were / are split evenly between the museum and Women's Aid. Printed on the centenary of the first female vote in Ireland. The type is 24D Méridien. 100 copies were printed on 170gsm Zerkall.

Poetry excerpt by Hayden Carruth, letterpress printed from handset metal type and wood rule on a 1906 Colt's Armory Press. From Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Copper Canyon Press.

Letterpress printed from handset wood type on a 1906 Colt's Armory Press.

Poem by June Jordan, letterpress printed from handset metal and wood type on a 1906 Colt's Armory Press in collaboration with Sabina Smith. From Directed by Desire, Copper Canyon Press.

Self-management has to survive the partial eclipse that the struggle for power has imposed over vast sectors of the world. In the middle of this confusion to impose the violent power, today self-management rises as a hope towards the self-knowledge of the personal sphere and its powerful collective instance expressed in the exchange of ideas. Due to this type of techno-centrifugal speed to which we are subjected, we still can't fully appreciate the importance of realizing our identity through an independent project.

The fight is a collective poem called freedom, we are writing it

I will never be a police officer

We are the species in danger of extinguishing everything.

Violence is eating animals.

Let’s make the revolution.

A pertinent quote from American author and critic, Marya Mannes. First printed in 2014 at the Letterpress Workers conference using Italian type there, Graham has revisited this poster, resetting it in wood type from the New North Press library.

We all know that nothing divides opinion quite like Brexit, with the possible exception of the nation’s festive ‘favourite’ the humble sprout. In late November 2018 the Blast team set off for another outing to The New Typography Workshop, to create the year’s Christmas poster. Following our 2916 letterpress adventure we tried hard not to mention Brexit, but somehow it felt unavoidable, with the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement hanging over the nation. The poster is designed to be displayed either way up, expressing your opinion on Europe (or is it sprouts?).

2016 had been an awful year. Britain exited the EU and everyone responsible left us in the lurch. America simply left us wondering ‘WTF?!’ So when the Blast team set off to get our hands dirty and create a festive letterpress poster, we thought it appropriate to make our own statement – using big wooden letters and gold ink.

Consequences need to become the conversation if White people want to have the power to ally with Black and other people of color. So here's the fucking poster, put it up – and make it true. Typography: Barlow/Jeremy Tribby

Printed the week after the murder of George Floyd for Denver rallies and protests at Genghis Kern, Denver CO.

Printed using a mixture of original wood blocks from the 1960s and newly made wood blocks for the Chinese characters. This statement is now band in HK and could have you imprisoned. I stand by my HK brothers for freedom of speech and against the lies of the Chinese govenment.

Edition Printed on Milkweed 110gsm

Type that is set on the bed of a press and ‘locked in place’ is know as a ‘lockup’. We are all in ‘Lockdown’ as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic. ‘LOCKDOWN LOCKUPS’ are a series of collaborative letterpress prints inspired by and made during ‘Lockdown’ in London 2020.

All the work is made in isolation. A future souvenir of this strange and uncertain time. This is the 5th in a series of collaborations between the Printer’s Devil and invited creatives. This is 8273, based in Fukuoka in the south of Japan. 8273 is my lucky number.

Edition Printed on Milkweed 118gsm