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About Oaxaca Indigenous-Modern

Oaxaca Indigenous-Modern is a contemporary graphic fusion grown from ASARO — the Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca — whose woodblock and stencil printing carries the calavera heritage of José Guadalupe Posada into present-day street activism. Color is anchored on grana cochinilla, the historic cochineal dye that runs carmine to fuchsia to magenta and turns purple when iron is added.

The system prints bold black relief marks on a dark inked woodblock field. Heavy carved outlines, rough stencil edges, calavera and Indigenous motifs, and alebrije color accents give every surface the texture of a hand-pulled print rather than a clean vector.

Learn more about the Oaxaca Indigenous-Modern style

Origin
Oaxaca, Mexico (Latin America) — ASARO / Espacio Zapata
Era
2010–now (contemporary); rooted in the 2006 Oaxaca uprising and the Posada calavera lineage
Key figures
ASARO collective · Shinzaburo Takeda · José Guadalupe Posada
Movements
Revolutionary woodblock & stencil printmaking · Mexican muralism legacy · Indigenous-motif graphic activism

Oaxaca Indigenous-Modern design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

Rozha OneHeadings
Noto SerifBody
OswaldMono
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