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About OSPAAAL Tricontinental

OSPAAAL — the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America — turned a Havana ink shortage into one of the twentieth century's most electric graphic languages. Silkscreen presses limited artists to two or three flat colours per run, so designers like Alfredo Rostgaard and Olivio Martínez leaned into bold silhouettes, posterized photography and shouting slab type instead of nuance. Folded into every issue of Tricontinental magazine and mailed to more than 87 countries, these posters carried anti-colonial and anti-imperialist messages on a strong black field with cyan, gold and revolutionary red overprints. The style reads as urgent, mass-produced and defiantly unpolished — propaganda built for the wall, not the gallery.

Learn more about the OSPAAAL Tricontinental style

Origin
Havana, Cuba
Era
OSPAAAL founded 1966; peak poster production 1967–1990
Key figures
Alfredo Rostgaard · Olivio Martínez · Rafael Enríquez
Movements
Third-World solidarity graphics · political silkscreen poster art

OSPAAAL Tricontinental design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

AntonHeadings
OswaldBody
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