From sweatshops to suburbia...

All of these early designs in this post and prior posts were printed between 2005 and 2007.

We have had great results using Seatthole.com as our sticker printer.

They even carried some of these early designs in their sister site / web store Merchbot.com .

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JUST DONT design is a straight activist message. Popular among gutter punk zines of the early 90s, the image of a 'trash sign guy' throwing something away like a swastika or a McDonalds logo. Sweat-Shop labor is a human rights issue that should not be ignored.

An earlier version of this design was printed as far back as early 2002 long before Psychological Industries was even developed as a company name.

Despite NIKE's hi-jacking of skateboard culture, including the acquisition of Chuck Taylor, and the rise of the 'sneakerhead' phenomenon, Oppression is never cool. Wearing shoes made in oppressive conditions with prison labor paychecks will never be punk rock.

LIGHT WAGES HEAVY TANKS a modern remake of an old classic.

The Situationist of Paris in the 1960s inspired global strikes against the Society of Spectacle much in the same way Occupy has caught the worlds attention today. The original poster was in French and the design is basically unchanged.

Developed anonymously during worker strikes and student uprising which numbered in the millions a university press was occupied and utilized to produce street posters such as this one. It felt a fitting and needed statement in the time it was released during the second Bush term during Gulf War II.

WOMEN TAKE OVER is a design found on a cheap paper sticker, on the streets of Austin Tx in the early 00's .

It was touched up and reprinted for fun and proved to be one of the most popular sticker designs adopted and nurtured by Psychological Industries.

It has been re-printed more than once since 2005.

YUPPIE is another design 'adopted' by Psychological Industries developed by someone else.

Sometime in the early 00's a website was discovered hosting the YUPPIE campaign. Unfortunately locating it again has proven difficult as the name of the site and the original artist escape memory.

What is memorable was the explicit intent of the artist for others to print the design and spread it around.

YUPPIE has been spotted on shirts and other products across the internet including eBay and Etsy.com

CHE by Alberto Korda Photographer was developed for the sole purpose of  reminding people that the image once belonged to someone who never seemed to get the credit he deserved for it.

Being the most widespread and well known and heavily co-opted photograph in history an attempt was made to blur the image even further with a halftone effect to emphasise the degration of the image as time goes on, in stak contrast to the name of the photographer himself .

Of course this image was developed prior to the huge coffee table retrospective CUBA: By Korda that hit bookstores across the world with the original photo blown up on the cover back in 2006.