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

Poster depicting a solider holding a gun. He has vampire teeth and the top of his head is removed to expose a small man with spectacles sitting at a steering wheel, in place of his brain. The soldier's right shoulder is on fire and behind him are psychedelic patterns.

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.

Alfredo Rostgaard was OSPAAAL’s creative director from 1966 to 1976. His began his career as a caricaturist for socialist children’s comic Mella. Rostgaard’s vampire-like US Air Force soldier is being driven like a machine. His design was used by OSPAAAL to criticise US military action.