A-S-C (Anti-Subscription Catalogue) 2024

Creative workers are tired, and our subscriptions have expired.

In response, the Anti-Subscription Catalogue is a community-sourced project with 108 non-subscription, free, open-source, and one-time fee software — organized in 15 categories — which can provide relief from monopolized and financialized platforms.

Why? The subscription cost can rise at any time, implement region-based barriers, even train proprietary algorithms for private gain off our own labour, and use deceptive design interactions to entice from 'freemium' to tiered features. Your access to the tools you depend upon for sustenance and fulfillment erodes. You end up paying more over time.

A-S-C seeks to grow regionally and globally in third spaces, schools, libraries, archives, tables, booths, parks, and websites — in the form of workshops or ways of self-learning together. A-S-C advocates for a creative diversity of tools, software, websites, and sovereign ad-hoc strategies. Like, share, and… tell all your friends. Say no to creative rent! Just A-S-C instead.

Details:

• Length: 24 pages
• Size: 127x203.2mm
• Typeface: Canister by Jonathon Yule
• Binding: Staddle-stitched booklet
• Printing: 2-colour (green on yellow) with Risograph
• Printer: Colour Code
• Ink: Soy-based
• Paper: Cream
• Location: Toronto, Canada
• 3rd edition.

All sales go back into the project, towards future print-runs, and project maintenance.
Thank you for your support!