2024
Research, Curation, Copy Editing, Editorial Design.
Freeness is often seen as the ideal (free speech, free love, or free beer) or the worthless (junk mail, shovelware, or rubbish) but within the idea of ‘the free’ there is a complexity and an opportunity to examine the details.
Nowt is a free magazine* about free stuff*, using the idea of 'free' as a launching point for a different topic each issue.
The first issue is about Microsoft Paint, which has been bundled free* with every version of Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985.
Nowt is produced for free*, using free paper samples* from G.F. Smith, printed with free library printing*, and bound with free staples* in the CSM Publications Workshop.
*All of these things are only free by a narrow definition:
You have to buy a Windows computer to get Paint for free, I was only able to access the printing and binding after paying thousands in tuition fees. Nowt was only freely distributed in a restricted area at a restricted time.
This is something that Nowt aims to discuss and explore in each issue.
Free copies of Nowt were distributed around London in June 2024.
Nowt was displayed between the 11th and the 17th June 2024, at the Central Saint Martins Degree Show, London.
