Review\nFinally, a book highlighting typography's role in iconic social movements throughout the nation's history. Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest is a storytelling tour de force composed of well-crafted prose married to poignant images that take us on a powerful, historical journey from the printed page into the streets. This book allows us to witness type oft-overlooked in design's history, that of diverse lay and professional designers relying on the transformative power of vernacular type to demand liberation and to galvanize action that leads to equity and justice. In doing so, it contributes heartily to decolonizing typography's canon. 
— Audrey G. Bennett, Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan\nAs much as we would like to think that the many wonderfully inventive graphics and powerful anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-imperialist messages contained within Strikethrough are just an interesting part of the past, they should instead be dusted off, studied, and reimagined for today's struggles. 
— Andrew Satake Blauvelt, Chief Curator and Director, Cranbrook Art Museum\nStrikethrough is a breakthrough on three levels: Its theme. Its context. Its author.... [Silas] Munro has injected levels of historical scholarship into Strikethrough's narrative [while] bringing significant rare materials to this study.... Savor every page and share this book with others. 
— Steven Heller, PRINT\nStrikethrough builds up the bibliography of a field that's often neglected, and will make the kind of work it covers more discoverable.... An important reference that will leave a mark. 
— Faride Mereb, The Brooklyn Rail\nA powerful new exploration of the uses of lettering, type and design to amplify resistance and inspire change―from 19th-century antislavery broadsides to the “Silence = Death” graphics of the AIDS epidemic and the handmade signs of the Black Lives Matter movement 
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. 
Artists and designers include: Atelier Populaire, See Red Women’s Workshop, Carlos Cortez, Emory Douglas, fierce pussy, Ganzeer, Milton Glaser, Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Corita Kent, Aaron Douglas, Art Workers’ Coalition, OSPAAAL, Tibor Kalman, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Herb Lubalin, Phase 2, Favianna Rodriguez, Ward Schumaker, Ben Shahn and Wes Wilson.\nFrom the Back Cover\nStrikethrough celebrates the use of letterforms to amplify and empower. In chapters exploring the many ways to voice dissent (RESIST!, VOTE!, STRIKE!, TEACH!, and LOVE!), this book charts a typographic chant of resistance across more than a century of protest graphics. 
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