Alfredo G. Rostgaard, Untitled, 1969 | Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Colour offset lithograph poster depicting Richard Nixon with fangs on a multicoloured psychedelic background. The poster is double sided and can be folded so he appears without fangs on one side and with fangs on the other.

Untitled

Creator: Alfredo G. Rostgaard
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1969

Between the 1960s and 1990s, more than fifty designers worked at OSPAAAL. Based in Cuba, they made magazines and posters that were sent around the world. Their aim was to promote radical political ideas. Many of their posters celebrate socialist revolutions and liberation movements from the Global South. They also criticised the foreign policy of the U.S.A.

Alfredo Rostgaard was OSPAAAL’s creative director from 1966 to 1976. His folded poster of US president Richard Nixon unfolds to gradually transform him into a demonic figure.