Between the 1960s and the 1980s, when creatives wanted to express themselves graphically, they didn't launch brands, or fashion magazines, they started political magazines. There was a raw, vibrant porosity between artists and activists and it gave rise to the golden age of radical visual culture. From Re Nudo to The Black Panther, from underground weed zines to feminist, queer, ecological, or anti-war publications, everyone had something to say, and they said it with urgency, with style, with ink.

That pre-internet world of print, protest, and typography-as-revolt has fascinated Ramdane Touhami since the 1990s. Today, this fascination gives birth to a foundation: The Radical Media Archive.
A project dedicated to preserving and sharing alternative press, graphic publications, revolutionary art, and utopian design. For this initiative, Ramdane partnered with Émile Shahidi, a kindred spirit obsessed with visual culture and movements of collective emancipation. Together, they have spent years tracking down rare and often one-of-a-kind printed matter: militant posters, underground zines, and political ephemera artifacts that still burn with belief.

Through this project, we celebrate the work of those who chronicled the good fights, utopias and rebellion, wars and liberation, and the art of those who created the visual language of the revolution through typography, collage, illustration and photography to intrigue, interest and involve others in their causes. we also pay tribute to graphic designers who wanted to draw a more beautiful world, and architects who dared to design a better one. Their blueprints were bold, their visions communal, modular, mobile, ecological. They imagined cities without masters, buildings that breathed, homes for all. These utopian plans, often lost or overlooked, now take their rightful place among the provocative literature and manifestos… proof that revolution isn't only shouted in the streets, but also sketched in studios.

The Radical Media Archive is not a nostalgia trip. This is visual memory as resistance: magazines, newspapers, records, posters, books. They all shout in collages, bold letters, wild comic strips and smuggled photographs. They ask us to learn from them, and to carry the torch.

The fruit of years of travels, passions and purchases all around the world, this collection will be shown in many ways, including exhibitions and books, free consultation at our bookstore, but also this online archive, digitised with love and care, so that these treasures can be shared with everyone, and read from everywhere.

Finally, a proprietary search engine developed by our team allows online visitors to browse millions of illustrations from the pages of these rare or fragile documents.

This is collection as community.