Communication Arts Sep/Oct 1994

The design journal Communication Arts featured an article by Philip Krayna entitled The Cuban Poster crisis. It focuses on the work of Daniel Walsh and Lincoln Cushing, co-founders of the Cuba Poster Project and their efforts to document Cuba's posters. Following a successful legal action against the US Treasury department to allow the import of printed materials from Cuba the duo spent time with designers and poster agencies in Cuba.

The Cuba Poster Project aims to document and preserve Cuban poster art. The article examines the remit of each of the poster producing agencies and talks about Cushing and Walsh's visits to the archives of the ICAIC and other agencies. The pair express their concern about the Cubans' poor archiving conditions and highlight the lack of materials as a barrier to further production.

This is a very comprehensive article, covering the work of one of the highest profile Cuban poster archivers. The high quality images are a speciality of Lincoln Cushing, who takes the utmost care in photographing and digitally restoring these images.