Plazm Magazine: Documenting Creative Culture Since 1991

Founded by artists as a creative resource, Plazm publishes an eclectic design and culture magazine with worldwide distribution. The entire catalog is now part of the permanent collection at SFMoMA. Order Plazm 29 Now.

 


Timeline of Dissent

The twentieth century saw nearly constant war and nearly constant protest of war. The self-published handbills and underground newsletters of World War I gave way to the guerrilla theater of the Vietnam era; more recently, new forms of activist communications spread graphics rapidly and globally online. In the following pages, Plazm assembles a timeline of dissent.

The last ten images in this timeline are a sampling of images available for free download on www.anti-war.us.

Anti-war.us is a Plazm project conceived of and curated by Joshua Berger with site design by Jon Steinhorst and interface design by Anthony Ramos.


 

Patrick Long - Cop Love

Plazm is proud to feature the first printed publication of Patrick's series "Cop Love." The drawings met with protest at their first exhibition in New York. Some of the work featured here is not in the printed issue of the magazine, and some of the work featured in the magazine is not found on the web site.
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Timeline of Dissent

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