Millemila Zero Covers

Studio Folp Vs Paperplane used a photocopier to obtain graphic distortion effects in a completely analogous way, while Smog photographed a diorama with an atmosphere that is both circus- and dream-like. There are also tributes to the Triennale building, like the proposal by Walter Wilhelm, who reworked the façade with scraps of paper and leaves. Luca Pozzi proposes a maintenance handbook for De Chirico's bagni misteriosi that populate the Trienniale's garden, while Elsa Jenna creates a kind of playful ink-drawn map of the installation.

Online, however, most of the proposals come from the graphic designers who create flyers for parties and evening events, sharing the aesthetic code of the world fuelled by Zero with other artists.

The sessions closed on 31 May. Around 150 of guest-create covers and a selection of proposals from the website were produced with printers, copiers and laser-cut from the "personal factory" made available at the Triennale by Vectorealism.

And so, in the long wing of the museum, an exhibition was born: more than a thousand copies of the magazine attached to a wall with plasto-ferrite magnets patented by the publisher to form a large mosaic. The impact is impressive. All the artworks are printed in black and white as jackets and the name of each artist appears on an acid green band on every magazine. And, in keeping with Zero's style, the guides are there both to show themselves off and dialogue with the larger show in the next room — TDM5: Grafica Italiana — as well as to be detached and freely taken home by anyone who wants to.

The project shows a way to design and conceive a free press that reworks the concept of display, while simultaneously ennobling its artistic dimension. The initiative's success can be attributed to a fruitful collaboration between Zero, the Trienniale and Vodafone. Millemila Zero covers closes the Vodafone Open event — a laboratory open to the development of apps which, in 60 meetings from February through May, investigated the effect of technology on art, food, sports, family, design, music, ideas, producing a guest-curated document for each theme.

Millemila Zero covers is a combination of art, publishing, technology, territory and gratuitousness that goes far beyond the A6 format, creating a network of new faces and established professionals with an approach that is always playful, but never frivolous. We amusedly await their next cool move.