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This website has been created to mark headway on my masters' thesis project at Georgetown University. It is a work-in-progress. I first began collecting Palestine posters when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in the mid-1970s. By 1980 I had acquired about 300 Palestine posters. A small grant awarded with the support of the late Dr. Edward Said allowed me to organize them into an educational slideshow to further the "third goal" of the Peace Corps: to promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. Over the ensuing years, while running my design company, Liberation Graphics, the number of internationally published Palestine posters I acquired steadily grew. Today the Archives numbers some 5,000 Palestine posters from myriad sources making it what many library science specialists say is the largest such archives in the world. The Palestine poster genre dates back to around 1900 and, incredibly, more Palestine posters are designed, printed and distributed today than ever before. Unlike most of the political art genres of the twentieth century such as those of revolutionary Cuba and the former Soviet Union, which have either died off, been abandoned, or become mere artifacts, the Palestine poster genre continues to evolve. Moreover, the emergence of the Internet has exponentially expanded the genre’s network of creative contributors and amplified the public conversation about contemporary Palestine.

I'm so excited about this role and the chance to carve out a new space to discuss visual trends and all the weird realities of being a designer today! As a vehement generalist, I'll of course still be maintaining my freelance design practice the other half of my time as well 😈 https://t.co/K0PVpPG1Qg— Elizabeth Goodspeed (@domesticetch) November 28, 2023

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A few of Craig McCracken's style guide pages for The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005), created by Craig McCracken, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons pic.twitter.com/9DeLlE9SuY— Animation Obsessive (@ani_obsessive) November 27, 2023

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