And so, the already familiar attention that art director Stefano Temporin and editor-in-chief and design editor Marco Sammicheli pay to the project, published with a different graphic concept every fifteen days, has become an opportunity to generate a sudden swarm of visual imagination.
Last 16 May, Zero was published without a cover but with an invitation — open to anyone on the website — to propose new covers using any technique. The project is named Millemila Zero covers, and in the two following weeks, more than 10,000 people downloaded and used the template.
Meanwhile, at the Triennale Design Museum , a series of live drawing sessions was held, during which 60 prominent Italian illustrators, designers, graphic designers and art directors were invited to produce their covers on site. The techniques used were varied and, surprisingly, only a small percentage of the artists used digital graphics.
There are many collages, such as the one by illustrator Claude Marzotto reconstructing the small mythology of the signs in a long-gone Milan, or another by Vogue Italia art director Luca Stoppini, who cut out typefaces from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to reconstruct the title of the free press journal, signing it with his fingerprint to render it inimitable.

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.

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 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

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.



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