The Arabic Design Archive is thrilled to announce a new alley joining the the Archival Alliances Movement: Marc Rudin Archive.About Marc Rudin:
Marc Rudin – Jihad Mansour Collection
The Marc Rudin – Jihad Mansour Collection brings together a powerful body of politically engaged graphic work produced in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. Created largely in exile between Beirut and Damascus from 1979 to 1991, the collection documents a moment when graphic design functioned as a tool of struggle, internationalism, and anti-racist commitment.
Marc Rudin, who also worked under the name Jihad Mansour, was a graphic artist whose practice moved seamlessly between political posters, drawings, watercolors, illustrations, signets, and later, typeface design. His posters from the Beirut and Damascus years stand as both historical documents and visual interventions, articulating resistance through image, typography, and print at a time of intense political urgency.
After returning to Switzerland, Rudin continued his practice through an intensive engagement with type design, extending his contribution to visual culture beyond the political poster while maintaining a clear ethical and political stance. Across his work, design is treated not as neutral form-making, but as an active participant in struggles against discrimination and in support of international solidarity.
The Marc Rudin – Jihad Mansour Collection is hosted on the Arabic Design Archive as part of Archival Alliances, a global initiative dedicated to reuniting dispersed histories of Arab and Arab-connected art and design through ethical collaboration with institutions, archives, and rights holders.
Copyright for all works in this collection remains with Eleonora Zimmermann Rudin. Selected works are made available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license and may be downloaded and reproduced for solidarity-driven use without modification. Other works remain fully protected by copyright and may be made available for exhibitions or publications upon request.
This collection contributes an essential chapter to the visual history of Palestinian solidarity and affirms the role of graphic design as a site of political agency, cultural memory, and collective resistance.
The initiative was launched in 2023 and since then, since then, the movement has grown to include exceptionally important collections from great institutions, collectors, and individuals. We are currently re(hosting) the collections of:
- The Palestinian Museum Archive
- Harvard Fine Arts Library
- The Syrian Design Archive
- Collection of Parviz Tanavoli
- CentreCentre Publishing
- Marc Rudin Archive
We are currently in the process of negotiating with more institutions to expand our network of alliances. If you belong to an institution that has an Arabic graphic design related collection and would like to join the Archival Alliances movement