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John Phillips co-founder of Paddington Printshop discusses the origins and development of the printshop and the posters and campaigns associated with it in the talk The Anarchist Next Door, londonprintstudio, May 2018

Film by Jack Grossman, 1988/89, documenting Jouvert a project in which Paddington Printshop moved away from poster making to invite visual artists and carnival designers to create and co-publish limited editioned prints and participate in a national touring exhibition on the theme of carnival.

Paddington Printshop was set up by John Phillips and Pippa Smith immediately following their participation in the Artists’ for Democracy (AFD) Festival for Chile held at the Royal College of Art 1974.

Lynn MacRitchie has posted four Videos from the Festival on Vimeo one of which includes extracts from a workshop on political poster making run by John and Pippa in which Martin Walker discusses his own designs and the contexts in which they were made. (Video 1 from 15 min)

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