from my email: Common Notions Press

The Best Looking Book(s) of the Year IN STORES NOW Armed by Design—The Interference Archive The Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) began in January of 1966 in Havana. Delegates from over 82 countries came together to unite their individual struggles for liberation. At the time, they were deemed “the most dangerous threat that international communism has yet made against the inter-American system,” by Armed by Design is stunning full-color, multilingual exploration of the profound graphic and intellectual legacy of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) for internationalism, solidarity, communication, and art among movements today The book 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.