Graphic Interventions is a podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In the seventh and final episode, Harriet talks to Sofia Niazi of OOMK (One of My Kind) about their project Mil Ke Chai, an artist-initiated conversation resulting in a zine. Listen to the episode on Soundcloud or on ITunes, Google Podcasts and Spotify.

The first six episodes featured poster-makers See Red Women’s Workshop, Conversations from Calais and Paris 68 Redux, artist Darren Cullen from Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives, subvertising group Protest Stencil and banner-maker Ed Hall.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

Mil Ke Chai Art Paper cover

Mil Ke Chai cover detail

Graphic Interventions is a podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In the sixth episode, Harriet meets Ben of subvertising collective Protest Stencil to discuss their campaign ‘Teach the truth about Britain’s past’. Listen to the episode on Soundcloud or on ITunes, Google Podcasts and Spotify.

Further information about Protest Stencil can be found on Twitter @protestencil, Facebook and Instagram. Freedom Press have published a booklet about Protest Stencil’s work, which is available to buy here.

The final episode in this series of Graphic Interventions will feature a zine made by the OOMK collective. The first five episodes featured poster-makers See Red Women’s Workshop, Conversations from Calais and Paris 68 Redux, artist Darren Cullen from Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives and banner-maker Ed Hall.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

The vest and key used to place posters in bus stops

Mini Daily Mail made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

Graphic Interventions is a new podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In the fourth episode, Harriet talks to artist Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives about his Mini Daily Mail. See the whole edition of Mini Daily Mail here. Listen to the episode on Soundcloud or on ITunes, Google Podcasts and Spotify.

Future episodes of the podcast feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, and a zine made by OOMK. The first three episodes featured poster-makers See Red Women’s Workshop, Conversations from Calais and Paris 68 Redux.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

Graphic Interventions is a new podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In the third episode, Harriet meets Dominic McGill and Michael Collins from poster-making collective Paris 68 Redux to discuss their work for Extinction Rebellion‘s Impossible Rebellion campaign in August 2021. Listen to the episode on Soundcloud, ITunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify.

Paris 68 Redux are part of the forthcoming show Change Everything, curated by Anthony Burrill, which runs from 4th November 2021 to 30th January 2022 at the depot_Shoreditch E2 7JQ and the depot_Old Street N1 7TA. They will be running poster workshops during the run of the show, including a special boycott Black Friday event at the end of November.

Paris 68 Redux can be found on Instagram @paris68redux and @xr_printworkshop.

Future episodes of Graphic Interventions feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, a zine made by OOMK and a Mini Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives. The first two episodes featured poster-makers See Red Women’s Workshop and Conversations from Calais.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

An example of one of the conversations captured and shared by Conversations from Calais.

Graphic Interventions is a new podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In the second episode, Harriet meets Mathilda from Conversations from Calais, a project that documents conversations between volunteers and migrants meeting in Calais; sharing them by pasting them on city walls around the world. Listen to the episode on Soundcloud, ITunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify. In the interview they discuss the ideas and motivations behind the project and the way that design offers a means for engaging with urgent issues.

Future episodes of feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, poster-makers Paris 68 Redux, a zine made by OOMK and a Mini Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives. The first episode featured See Red Women’s Workshop.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

Graphic Interventions is a new podcast series investigating political statements made through posters, banners and zines, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson. In each episode Harriet interviews one maker about one thing they’ve made. In the first episode, Harriet talks to Suzy Mackie, co-founder of feminist poster-making collective See Red Women’s Workshop. Listen to the episode on Soundcloud, ITunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify.

Focusing on the poster Right on Jane, they discuss the work of See Red including how the group started out, their motivations in working collectively, the issues they were tackling, how posters allowed them to raise important issues and to connect within and beyond the women’s movement.

The Ladybird book which inspired Right on Jane

Further information about See Red Women’s Workshop is available on their website. The book See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990, which includes full colour reproductions of all posters, is published by Four Corners Books and available at independent bookshops.

“Good good girl” – an example of the text that inspired Right on Jane

“Right on Jane” by See Red Women’s Workshop

Future episodes of Graphic Interventions feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, poster-makers Conversations from Calais and Paris 68 Redux, a zine made by OOMK and a mini-Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives.

Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri, with invaluable technical guidance from Leila Johnston. Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. With thanks to Nick Grosso for vocals. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton.

Graphic Interventions, a new podcast series investigating political interventions through the graphic form, produced and hosted by Harriet Atkinson will launch at the end of this month. In each episode Harriet interviews one maker about one thing they’ve made. Listen to the trailer here.

Episodes feature banner-maker Ed Hall, subvertising collective Protest Stencil, poster-makers Conversations from Calais, Paris 68 Redux and See Red Women’s Workshop, a zine made by OOMK and a mini-Daily Mail spoof made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives.

Graphic Interventions is hosted by Soundcloud and streamed on ITunes and Spotify.

Graphic Interventions music is composed by Brad Ellis. Logo design by Martha. Graphic Interventions is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton. Advisors to Graphic Interventions are Annebella Pollen, Jeremy Aynsley, Liz Farrelly and Zeina Maasri.

Mini Daily Mail made by Darren Cullen of Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

‘Still the Enemy Within’, banner made by Ed Hall for the South Yorkshire Community Branch of Unite union.

Posters by Paris 68 Redux for Extinction Rebellion’s Impossible Rebellion, August 2021.

Page from the zine ‘Mil Ke Chai ‘, a project co-ordinated by OOMK.

‘Right On Jane’. Poster by See Red Women’s Workshop, late 1970s.

Poster by Protest Stencil

Poster by Conversations from Calais