About

Signs of Revolt was organised by Noel Douglas and Tony Credland and the hard work of all the participants:

Space Hijackers/Ultimate Holding Company/Reel News/kennardphillipps/
Cactus Network/Jonathan Barnbrook/Pedro Inhoue/Noel Douglas/
David Gentlemen/Guy Smallman/Camp for Climate Action/
Movement of the Imagination/Rebel Clown Army/Jess Hurd/
Indymedia London/Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination/
Creative Resistance Research Network/
Turbulence/War Boutique.

We’d also like to thank the various people who helped invigilate the show to keep it open so long!

Noel Douglas is an artist, designer and activist whose practice is concerned with the relationship between aesthetics and politics, anti-capitalist uses of graphic communication and the privatisation and  commodification of space and popular culture. As well as producing graphic work that is an active participant in the demonstrations themselves he has worked in a range of media including the best-selling satirical packet of playing cards Regime Change begins at Home, book design and adverts for the Stop the War Coalition in the UK, identity work for anti-capitalist activist group Globalise Resistance and the design for Spanish ‘Adbusters’ magazine ‘Malababa’ in 2006 and 2008. He has been active in social movements for over a decade and helped co-organise the cultural programme of the European Social Forum in London in 2004. He is currently the Programme Leader for Graphic Design and Illustration at the University of Bedfordshire.
www.noeldouglas.net

Tony Credland is a Designer, Activist and Lectures in Graphic Design.
Along with Glenn Orton he started the Cactus Network that started out as a Mail Art project in 1989 and over the years morphed into producing agitprop and running workshops, often creating autonomous space and frameworks for others to experiment within. Working along side activist groups like Reclaim the Streets and Indymedia London.
www.cactunetwork.org.uk

Signs of Revolt has been made possible by funding from:

The anti-capitalist activist group Globalise Resistance, active from 2000 to 2007 and mobilised thousands of people for demonstrations across the world

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The Publication has been made possible with funding from Research institute for Media, Art and Design at the University of Bedfordshire.

Email: show[at]signsofrevolt.net