Basic Vision Archive : Early Traces and Development of Contemporary Zine Culture

Abstract

This digital humanities project aims to create an online resource providing access to a selection of materials from a private archive of approximately 1,200 rare, valuable publications. The out-of-print publications present in this archive explore the early entanglements of art, typography and graphic design which influenced the development of contemporary zine culture. The print items in this collection have rarely been digitized and made accessibly online through other projects and present a unique opportunity to share with a global audience a resource that will amplify connections artists and scholars can make in regard to the vital overlap between the fields of visual art and graphic design in the early 19th Century.