A zine that you have to print yourself!
Print-it, ARTZINES Adventures!, the final piece from ARTZINES project, is using the CSS Print technique to offer a unique and personalized experience to the audience. After answering the computer’s* questions about your own tastes in fanzines and cultural scene, it will generate a whole coded book by taking content from the complete database of ARTZINES magazine. Then you will have to print**, fold and bind*** your copy of a book which is different every time.

*Link provided with purchase
** Home printing requires a simple black Recto Verso desktop printer
***Hardware provided with purchase

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After completing a PhD about publishing as an alternative artistic practice in 2014, Lefebvre met a mystery man who encouraged him to follow a lead discovered in his dissertation. Seizing this opportunity, Lefebvre started traveling to art book fairs across the globe looking for zines and interviewing the artists who make them. As the project went on, he came to think that artists are not the only ones who have something to say about zines and that other people care for zines and organize their conditions of existence. They are the bookshop owners, the zine fest and art book fair organizers, the zine study researchers, the collectors and librarians, when they are not doing all of that at the same time pushed by a Do It Yourself ethos inherited from punks.

After a decade of research upheavals, Lefebvre had amassed an enormous quantity of data and was looking for a way to turn it into a book that would be as captivating as a mystery novel, both in content and form. He worked with the collective Objet Papier to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience, a Choose Your Adventure research publication that embarks the reader on his adventures, creating a tailored experience unique for each reader.

This third issue once again uses the CSS print technique which consist in creating a printed layout using web languages and tools in the same way as for a web page. For Print-it, ARTZINES adventures!, they explored the possibilities of this technique even further to create a publication whose content, as well as graphics, vary each time it is generated to be printed. Objet Papier has teamed up with Antoine Lefebvre to produce an ARTZINES anthology, in which each copy  is different from the other.