This is our second published collection with Active Distribution, hand-picked by the collective members, to give a flavour of the posters that were produced during the 1968 uprising in Paris.
During the uprising workers and students would come to the Atelier Populaire in the occupied School of Fine Arts with ideas for poster designs – they would be discussed in the context of the day’s events in a General Assembly before deciding whether to print them.
The posters, alongside a wave of radical graffiti, flooded the streets with their trademark simplicity.
Quick and easy to produce, the posters perfectly captured the zeitgeist with messages of hope and resistance. They have stood the test of time.
Book details:
Title: Radical Poster Pocketbooks: Paris May ’68 Worker and Student Uprising
Authors: Radical Poster Collective
Publiser: Active Distribution
Published: September 2025
ISBN: 9781914567681
Format: A6 pocketbook
Pages: 48
