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    Birkensnake 6 by Birkensnake

    Help seven teams of editors and artists bring a many-headed Birkensnake 6 into the world!

    Successful!
    • 104% funded
    • $3,129 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 19, 2013

    They had us at "an unholy experiment in trans-dimensional alliances of the stranger kind"

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    The People's E-Book by Hol Art Books

    A free, beautifully-simple tool to make e-books better.

    Successful!
    • 288% funded
    • $28,872 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 02, 2013

    Hol Art Books does great work, and even though Printed Matter mostly works with printed materials, we are huge fans of E-Books and are excited to see where artists can take them.

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    Say Hello To Farewell Books by Farewell Books

    A progressive bookshop and art gallery that specializes in new and used hard to find books in the city of Austin, Texas.

    Successful!
    • 110% funded
    • $16,053 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 09, 2013

    The former staff of Domy Books in Austin is trying to pick up where the store left off after it closed. Help this great team keep the Artist Book community alive in Austin

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    BEAUTY TODAY #2: SECOND BASE by BEAUTY TODAY

    BEAUTY TODAY: SECOND BASE is a printed magazine for the contemporary libertine, presenting nude photography, illustrations and writing.

    Successful!
    • 101% funded
    • $9,103 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 25, 2013

    Last year we hosted a launch for the first issue of BT and were very excited about it. The magazine is very ambitious, thoughtful, and really there is nothing else like it.

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    DUM DUM Issue No. 3: PUNKS & SCHOLARS by Taleen Kalenderian

    DUM DUM's 3rd issue comes in a box featuring experimental literature, essays, photography, and objects, in a perversion of form.

    Successful!
    • 100% funded
    • $5,045 pledged
    • Funded
      Dec 21, 2012

    Get Dum with Dum Dum, an experimental literature and photography publication from LA.

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    Bodega by Bodega

    Bodega is committed to working with artists to develop and present new projects. We are asking for your support to help us continue!

    Successful!
    • 104% funded
    • $10,421 pledged
    • Funded
      Oct 06, 2012

    Bodega does great work , we enjoy their books and exhibitions!

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    Pittsburgh Zine Fair by Andy Scott

    Back for it's second year the Pittsburgh Zine Fair is hoping to be better than ever and create an impression on our local community.

    Successful!
    • 123% funded
    • $618 pledged
    • Funded
      Oct 09, 2012

    We love a good zine fair, help this one get off the ground for it's 2nd year!

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    SHIFTER Magazine's Special Issue at the NY Art Book Fair by Shifter Magazine

    Shifter Magazine seeks your support in publishing its 19th issue, which will be launched this September at The New York Art Book Fair.

    Successful!
    • 109% funded
    • $5,487 pledged
    • Funded
      Sep 05, 2012

    Shifter Magazine seeks your support in publishing its 19th issue, which will be launched this September at The New York Art Book Fair.

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    Trade School : Learning Spaces that Run on Barter by OurGoods.org

    We want to build an open source software platform to share with local Trade School chapters around the world.

    Successful!
    • 100% funded
    • $10,000 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 05, 2012

    Great organization, makes us want to teach a class at it!

    Give them a hand!

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    Expanding Eyebeam's Public Presence in Chelsea by Eyebeam Art + Technology Center

    Eyebeam = open source & open content; to make what we do open to all, we are creating a new public space for books, exhibits & coffee.

    Successful!
    • 106% funded
    • $26,561 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 06, 2012

    Our friends at Eyebeam are have launched a Kickstarter page to raise funds to renovate their space. They do great work, give them a hand!

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    DIYinLAX by Iris Porter

    DIYinLAX is a book about how community inspires creativity and why people don't quit their daydreams; a cultural study of L.A.

    Successful!
    • 101% funded
    • $8,120 pledged
    • Funded
      May 16, 2012

    Iris Porter is adding another book to her excellent series. This book examines the diverse DIY community of Los Angeles

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    InDigest: Poetry, Stories, Podcasts, Broadsides, and more by Dustin Luke Nelson

    InDigest, an online lit mag, offers podcasts, blogs, digital broadsides, and more. It's outgrown its home, and needs a new one.

    Successful!
    • 127% funded
    • $2,543 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 30, 2012

    InDigest seems like a great project, all the content is free to the public!

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    Summer Forum for Inquiry + Exchange by Summer Forum for Inquiry + Exchange

    Summer Forum is a new text and discussion-based residency program that will take place this summer from July 21-28 in New Harmony, IN.

    Successful!
    • 108% funded
    • $9,741 pledged
    • Funded
      Apr 02, 2012

    This sounds like a great think tank residency that could prove to be very productive!

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    The Harlem Arts Festival by Harlem Arts Festival

    First annual free summer festival presenting established and emerging Harlem-based performing and visual artists.

    Successful!
    • 108% funded
    • $13,073 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 18, 2012

    This is the first year of this festival and it looks like a fantastic project - completely free to the public, just the way we like it.

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    The NWAA: 2012 + 2013 by New Wilmington Art Association (NWAA)

    The New Wilmington Art Association enables artists to work, develop, and think through its creative interventions staged in vacancies.

    Successful!
    • 104% funded
    • $3,136 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 12, 2012

    Artist Run-Centers need your help, and the The New Wilmington Art Association is looking for your help to keep their organization going.

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    Ad Hoc by Ad Hoc

    Bring music back to the community.

    Successful!
    • 112% funded
    • $37,626 pledged
    • Funded
      Mar 05, 2012

    From the same editors that brought you Altered Zones comes a brand new independent music journalism project.

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    booklyn.org 2.0 by The Booklyn Artists Alliance

    You want BOOK ARTS? Booklyn is putting it all online.

    Successful!
    • 122% funded
    • $14,666 pledged
    • Funded
      Jan 16, 2012

    Sounds like a great project! Very inline with our own mission, so we have to support it. Non-Profits helping each other!

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    In The Image by emmy scharlatt & judith montell

    Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank who use video cameras as a means of non violent activism.

    Successful!
    • 107% funded
    • $21,562 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 10, 2012

    IN THE IMAGE is a documentary about Palestinian women who film human rights abuses throughout the occupied West Bank.

    They are looking for funds to finish the documentary and share this empowering and inspiring story.

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    Can't Grow Up! by Luke Pelletier

    "Can't Grow Up!" is a zine that showcases a handful of artists that are involved in skate culture. The zine will be FREE!

    Successful!
    • 100% funded
    • $3,003 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 11, 2012

    Skate or Zine! Skateboarding has cultivated some amazing artists and collectives, including plenty of book artists that we work with regularly.

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    American Ecstasy Photo Book by Barbara Nitke

    A memoir in pictures and words of the twelve years I spent working as a still photographer on porn movie sets in New York in the 1980's

    Successful!
    • 129% funded
    • $32,268 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 24, 2012

    A memoir in pictures and words of the twelve years Barbara Nitke spent working as a still photographer on porn movie sets in New York in the 1980's.

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    Authors, Publishers and Readers of Independent Literature by Willie Fitzgerald

    A festival of independent literature.

    Successful!
    • 277% funded
    • $5,557 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 15, 2012

    Besides Artists' Books and Publications we support independent literature!

    Help this organization get its' festival up and running.

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    L.A. Zine Fest 2012 by Team False Start

    Break out those umbrellas because we are going to make it rain zines, Los Angeles.

    Successful!
    • 122% funded
    • $3,066 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 19, 2012

    Who doesn't love a Zine Fest! There are plenty of great zine makers in Southern California, let's help this crew get their project off the ground!

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    The Luminary Moves to Cherokee Street by The Luminary Center for the Arts

    The Luminary is purchasing a former variety store on Cherokee Street that will become a unique incubator for the arts.

    Successful!
    • 111% funded
    • $22,244 pledged
    • Funded
      Feb 12, 2012

    The Luminary Center for the Arts supports emerging artists and now they are looking for help to purchase a permanent location.

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    Occupied Oakland Tribune Issues 3 & 4 by Occupied Oakland Tribune

    Help fund issues 3 & 4 of the Occupied Oakland Tribune!

    Successful!
    • 110% funded
    • $660 pledged
    • Funded
      Jan 27, 2012

    The Oakland Tribune has been Occupied, we saw the NY Times get occupied here in NYC and it was a very informative and positive publication to explain the movement to the public who might not be able to attend protests.

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    The Thing by Rhys Ernst

    A woman, a transgendered man, and their cat travel towards a mysterious roadside attraction known as "The Thing".

    Successful!
    • 108% funded
    • $5,408 pledged
    • Funded
      Jan 19, 2012

    Set to premiere in a few weeks at Sundance, Rhys Ernst's The Thing is a short film shot on 16mm film following a woman, a transgendered man and their cat as they make their way toward a mysterious road side attraction.

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    155 Freeman: Triple Canopy, Light Industry, Public School by Triple Canopy

    This fall, Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School will launch 155 Freeman, a new arts-and-culture center in Brooklyn.

    Successful!
    • 177% funded
    • $35,465 pledged
    • Funded
      Jul 10, 2011

    This project has already been funded ... but we love what Triple Canopy does.

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    The Starlite Project: Starlite (We Came to Sweat) by Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel

    Starlite is a film about Brooklyn's legendary black-owned non-discriminating and LGBTQ-friendly bar est. in 1959.

    Successful!
    • 105% funded
    • $26,304 pledged
    • Funded
      Dec 05, 2011

    This project has been funded!

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    Primary Information 2012 Artists Writing Program by primaryinformation

    Primary Information is inaugurating a new artists writings program in 2012 featuring four new publications by contemporary artists.

    Successful!
    • 103% funded
    • $15,527 pledged
    • Funded
      Dec 23, 2011

    This project has already been funded ... but we love what Primary Information produces.

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    Swoon VI--The Techno/logy Issue by Kelly McKay

    Swoon Magazine is a NY/LA-based independent music, fashion, philosophy, art & culture media project.

    Successful!
    • 109% funded
    • $4,375 pledged
    • Funded
      Jan 23, 2012

    This magazine covers a lot of material that we enjoy.

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    teenVAG Issue #2 by teenVAG

    A self-published zine and creative platform used to promote the work of female artists.

    Successful!
    • 100% funded
    • $5,000 pledged
    • Funded
      Nov 10, 2011

    This project has already been funded ... but we love this zine.

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    STUPOR: UNFIXABLE with artist Jessica Frelinghuysen by Steve Hughes

    A collaboration between zine-writer Steve Hughes and visual artist Jessica Frelinghuysen.

    Successful!
    • 135% funded
    • $1,355 pledged
    • Funded
      Oct 16, 2012

    We've carried Stupor for ages. Good readin'