Explore the zine collection at Glasgow School of Art Library
Crumble is an award-winning bi-annual collaborative magazine run by architecture students based at the Universty of Edinburgh. But, as it states in the introduction to issue 1, ‘this is not a magazine about architecture.’ Instead, Crumble provides a platform for students and practitioners to explore wider cultural and political contexts through the lens of contemporary architectural practice, encouraging a critical and socially-engaged approach to the field. Issue no. 1, ‘What is Urgent?’ features articles on sustainable architecture in Iran, feminist approaches to architecture and the future of Edinburgh’s built landscape alongside beautiful risograph prints. Find it here.
Junk Jet is a collaborative semi-irregular magazine of speculative works on art, architecture and electronic media edited and designed by Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest (m-a-u-s-e-r). In their own words, it is ‘about wild forms and found objects, about weird theories and (small) narratives, anti-fashions and non-styles, about exploring do-it-yourself works, accidental outcomes, deviant and normal aesthetic forms that result from jammed common practices, misused media, and subverted customary tools.’
Issue no. 2, the speculative architecture issue, focuses on unpredictable and volatile spaces (both digital and real), from the photo booth to the skip to the cleaned-off graffiti. Find it in the catalogue here, or try issue no. 4, the statistics-of-mystics-issue
An illustrated ABC of cliches and stereotypes, Jacob V Joyce’s The alphabetical anthology of white liberal proverbs is a poetic deconstruction of and challenge to contemporary discourse surrounding race. Learn more about the zine and Joyce’s collective, Sorry You Feel Uncomfortable, by watching their Ted Talk. Follow up with another of their zines, Fear brown queers, which also features in our collection.
Call out: we need your zines!
The GSA Zine Library is constantly growing, and we’re always looking for new zines by students.
Submissions can be on any subjects and in any style, including poetry, prose, collage, illustration and printmaking. The Collection aims to promote the zine as a cheap and easily produced art form that can be used in a wide variety of ways: a space to experiment with mediums or express your passion for a topic.
Submitting your zine to the GSA Library allows you preserve it for posterity while sharing your artwork and ideas with the wider student community. Donated zines allow us to radically broaden our holdings by maintaining a collection that covers a vast range of themes, styles and forms. As an inexpensive, accessible art form zines are a democratising force, enabling the Library to reflect a multiplicity of voices and positions. The collection lets us represent and share works by non-canonical writers, emerging artists and small presses.
You can submit your own zines anonymously to the collection via our three postboxes, situated respectively by our main Service Desk, next to the Zine Library itself, and in the Vic bar. If you’d like the Library to buy your zine (up to the cost of £10) please include your contact details and we will send you an invoice template to fill in and return.
‘All I ever wanted was to form a band that mattered enough to people that someone would make a fanzine about us.’ - Dorian Cox, The Long Blondes
Meet me on the dual carriageway: a Long Blondes fanzine is a recent addition to our growing collection of music fanzines. It’s full of archival articles, essays and artworks providing a retrospective on indie darlings The Long Blondes.
Find it on the catalogue here.
Another great donation! This zine of monthly top tens was produced by our resident music aficionado, so it contains great track recommendations. The top tens also include places to visit, food to eat, and even clothes. Find it up on the mezzanine floor of the library.
Arts Organisation People United sent us this fantastic zine called ‘Be Kind’, a celebration of their ten year anniversary.
“We worked day and night to collect and make stories, poems, pictures, messages and objects of kindness from across Canterbury and beyond. WHY? We all believe that to live well in the world together, we need to increase our capacity for empathy, compassion, friendliness and neighbourliness.“
Find it in our catalogue here, or come up to the Zine Collection on the mezzanine floor of the library to take a look for yourself.
Very unfit: things donald trump has said & done was produced by Glasgow Zine Fest. Find it on the mezzanine floor of the library.
Find this music fanzine & more on the mezzanine floor of the library