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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 Visconti
Posted on October 30, 2024

I 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]
Tags:
- zine-making
Zine rack design

Practical design plans to make a better Zine Bakery zine display for Scholars' Lab's public space.
By Amanda Wyatt Visconti
Posted on October 18, 2024

This 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]
Tags:
- zine-librarian
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 Visconti
Posted on September 23, 2024

I’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]
Tags:
- zine-making
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 Visconti
Posted on September 19, 2024

I 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]
Tags:
- zine-making
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 Visconti
Posted on September 16, 2024

A 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]
Tags:
- zine-research
- zine-metadata
New zine publication: 'Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case'

I published my first zine!
By Amanda Wyatt Visconti
Posted on September 9, 2024

I 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]
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- zine-making
Zine Bakery: research roadmap

Plans include an ethical practices project charter, collecting rationale, crosswalk to xZINECOREx metadata, and more.
By Amanda Wyatt Visconti
Posted on August 18, 2024

Some 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]
Tags:
- zine-research
- zine-metadata
Zine Bakery: topical zine collections

Jump to just zines about specific cool topics/themes!
By Amanda Wyatt Visconti
Posted on August 16, 2024

The 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]
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- zine-research
- zine-metadata
Digital humanities makerspace research (including zines)
By Amanda Wyatt Visconti
Posted on August 6, 2024

My 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]
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- zine-research
- zine-metadata
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 Visconti
Posted on July 20, 2024

I’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]
Tags:
- zine-research
- zine-related-making
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 Visconti
Posted on April 10, 2024

I’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]
Tags:
- zine-research
- zine-metadata

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.

Zine rack design

Practical design plans to make a better Zine Bakery zine display for Scholars' Lab's public space.

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.

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.

New Zine Bakery page: Zine Dataset!

Lots of photos illustrating how my zine collection is a dataset fueling coding, viz, and makerspace scholarship.

New zine publication: 'Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case'

I published my first zine!

Zine Bakery: research roadmap

Plans include an ethical practices project charter, collecting rationale, crosswalk to xZINECOREx metadata, and more.

Zine Bakery: topical zine collections

Jump to just zines about specific cool topics/themes!

Digital humanities makerspace research (including zines)

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

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