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I’ve added a new page (reachable under Distros > Redistro), where I’ll host select zines and related resources by other people. When a zine/resource has a strong social justice and/or tech+culture focus (or otherwise fits my interest), I’ll provide web hosting to help with redistribution. These tend to be tutorials... [Read More]
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New Bakeshop (collaborative) zine publication on preserving the things on the Web you care about
Full title: 'DIY Web Archiving'
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New Biscuit (minizine) zine publication on local immigration rights & safety
Full title: 'Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too'
By Amanda Wyatt Visconti“Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too” (Zine Bakery Biscuit #2) is an 8-page, black-and-white minizine explaining how immigration rules and rhetoric impact Charottesville folks even though we’re in the middle of a state, far away from federal borders—and resources for supporting us and our neighbors vs. racist rhetoric and... [Read More] -
New Bakeshop (collaborative) zine publication of UVA librarian pet photos & pet stories
Full title: 'The Good Pets of UVA Library'
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiThe Good Pets of UVA Library is a whopping 36-page standard-size, full-color zine created by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti) with text and photos of pets contributed by UVA Library colleagues: [Read More] -
Global Digital Humanities Symposium conference talk about Zine Bakery
My research talk on my Zine Bakery project was accepted to Global DH 2025
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiMy presentation on “Zine Bakery: borderless DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication via zines” was accepted to the Spring Global DH 2025 conference. My talk abstract is below: [Read More] -
New Hand Pie (quarter-size) zine publication on unusual letterpress blocks
Full title: 'Look!! Here's your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine'
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiI created and published a new zine: Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine. It’s an 8-page, quarter-size collage zine of odd letterpress blocks (illustrations/text mounted on a block of wood, to be inked & pressed into paper using a printing press) that I encountered... [Read More] -
Wizard Zines! at Zine Bakery @ Scholars' Lab
We now offer print copies of Julia Evans' Wizard Zines on our public zine rack.
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiZine author Julia Evans has generously granted us a license to reprint and distribute print copies of all her zines for free from our public Scholars’ Lab zine rack distro! A huge thanks to Evans, whose very friendly, fun tech tutorial zines got Visconti started collecting, and whose work we... [Read More] -
New zine publication, in a new zine series: 'Speedweve for Mending'
#DHmakes Methodz Zines #1 is part of series zine-ifying public maker talks I've organized.
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiI co-created a zine with Sam Blickhan: Speedweve for Mending (#DHMakes Methodz Zines #1). It’s a 16-page standard-size, full-color zine that introduces you to speedweve-style mending looms for fixing small holes in socks and other fabric: What are they? What’s cool about them? Why might you want to try one?... [Read More] -
Zine rack design
Practical design plans to make a better Zine Bakery zine display for Scholars' Lab's public space.
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiThis is a very practical post describing how I’m trying to improve a public space zine display! My current zine rack in the Scholars’ Lab Common Room currently looks okay—the metal rack allows you to see there are zines hanging on the other two of its three sides, and the... [Read More] -
Indicating zine-making effort? quality? format? type
Thinking through how to indicate the level of effort, precision, reading experience to expect from a zine I make, without using terms suggesting these are on some linear scale.
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiI’d like to develop some kind of scale to show what a reader can expect from a zine I author, in terms of their reading experience and perception of the effort and care that went into a given zine. For example, was it hand-lettered in one sitting with a few... [Read More] -
5 things learned making my first complete zine
I remain very pleased to have finally published a zine—here's a couple things I learned about zinemaking, in the process.
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiI recently published my first zine! I actually fully drafted another zine just beforehand (on letterpress printing!), but for whatever reason I finished this lasercutter cheatsheet zine draft first. [Read More] -
New Zine Bakery page: Zine Dataset!
Lots of photos illustrating how my zine collection is a dataset fueling coding, viz, and makerspace scholarship.
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiA catalog is also a dataset, which means because of my Zine Bakery project’s zine catalog, I’ve got a hand built, richly described, tidily organized dataset I know well. Seeing my zine catalog as a dataset opens it to my data science and digital humanities skillset, including data viz, coding,... [Read More] -
New zine publication: 'Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case'
I published my first zine!
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiI published my first zine: Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case. It’s an 8-page mini-zine cheatsheet taking you through the steps of designing and lasercutting an acrylic oval with frosted text, using the Scholars’ Lab’s Makerspace and its lasercutter “Vader”. Thanks to Ammon Shepherd, who gave me... [Read More] -
Zine Bakery: research roadmap
Plans include an ethical practices project charter, collecting rationale, crosswalk to xZINECOREx metadata, and more.
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiSome future work I’m planning for my Zine Bakery project researching, collecting, and amplifying zines at the intersections of tech, social justice, and culture. [Read More] -
Zine Bakery: topical zine collections
Jump to just zines about specific cool topics/themes!
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiThe Zine Bakery catalog is a public view of a subset of the Zine Bakery dataset. It includes most/all of the zines in my personal catalogue, but only a subset of the metadata fields—leaving out fields irrelevant to the public like how many copies of a zine do I have... [Read More] -
Digital humanities makerspace research (including zines)
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiMy DH 2024 conference talk on my recent book-adjacent data physicalizations and makerspace research, as part of co-facilitating the #DHmakes mini-conference. What is #DHmakes? Briefly: anyone (you?) DH-adjacent sharing their (DH or not) crafty or making work with the #DHmakes hashtag, getting supportive community feedback. Resulting collaborations have included conference... [Read More] -
Themed (zine) reading lists as neat card decks! A tutorial and design discussion
Time for a card deck of zine info & reading links you can keep in your pocket
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiI’ve got several in-progress makerspace experiments exploring inclusion of non-book “reads”/scholarship into the same visibility, amplification, browsability, and community building efforts as print book collections/displays. [Read More] -
Metadata for Zine Collecting
Figuring out what information I need to record per zine, to be able to do cool things with that data later on
By Amanda Wyatt ViscontiI’ve been focused on internal-facing zine work the last couple years, due in part to Scholars’ Lab lacking public zine space due to our building’s renovation (but we’re open in a renovated new location as of earlier this year—come hang out!). I’ve added zines to my zine catalogue, both from... [Read More]