DEPARTMENT

The Propaganda Department is a ministry that does not exist. I grew up in socialist Serbia, was a Yugoslav pioneer, and visited Moscow as a child in 1987. The Department speaks the language I learned there. Since 2009 I have issued its posters, stickers, prints and murals from Novi Sad to the streets of Berlin, Copenhagen and San Francisco, after Orwell's ministries, Russian propaganda posters, constructivism and Shepard Fairey. Every work praises authority so faithfully that the praise turns against it. Read the message twice.

Miroslav Kostić

PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT · 2026

Propaganda Department

A curious and provocative enterprise, finds its genesis in the shadowy ink of George Orwell's prophetic tales.

This artistic endeavor melds the art of persuasion with the threads of streetwear, weaving a narrative that probes the boundaries of control, manipulation, and rebellion. Within its arsenal, one discovers tattered tees, sprawling murals, enigmatic pins, cryptic stickers, and glitched visuals, all bearing the mark of this unrelenting concept.

Inspired by the stark aesthetics of Russian propaganda, the artistic fervor of Shepard Fairey, and the constructivist undercurrents of a bygone era, Propaganda Department beckons its patrons to question the narratives imposed upon them by the hand of authority.

This cryptic realm also unveils a "Conspiracy Theory Set," a Pandora's box of themes such as "Chemtrails," "Flat Earth," and "Illuminati Control," inviting the curious to venture into uncharted territories of thought.

Berlin, Germany

The Propaganda Department sticker in Paris, France

The Propaganda Department sticker in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Propaganda Department sticker in San Francisco, USA

The round red Propaganda Department sticker on a red Copenhagen post box, with the City Hall tower behind.

The Propaganda Department sticker in Los Angeles, USA

The Propaganda Department sticker in New York, USA

The Propaganda Department sticker in Budapest, Hungary