Kunstau­to­mat

The museum square in Vienna has repur­posed a lot of these old vend­ing machines to sell comics, zines, art prints, folded posters and other small gifts. The contents change regu­larly.

You insert a coin, and choose one door to open. Some­times each door has the same thing, and some­times each is differ­ent. Origin­ally these would have had paper plates with sand­wiches. They are still common in the Neth­er­lands, selling late night deep-fried food.

I got one of these astro­nomy zines for my friend Melanie.

And one of these typo­graphy posters for myself.