Bruised Knees & ABCs

Issue Three is here!

Get your copy here.

Issue Three Pre-orders

Wow-ee it's been a busy month.

But, despite a million and one things going on, we've finished putting together our Issue Three of Heart & Lungs ready to be launched on 1st October. Yay!

It is full of events & projects listings, illustrations, an interview with Estelle Morris, stories & poems, zine crushes, a feature on Mr Yen and a whole heap more.

And guess what? You can pre-order your copy now, so you'll be the very first to get your hands on a copy.

Just click here, click Issue 3 & pop in the amount you'd like to pay for the zine + postage. Ta-da!

Issue Three Front Cover

Huge, huge thanks to everyone that submitted a front cover for our next issue, every month we're so delighted with the amount of talent that is out there.

I think this month may have actually been the hardest to choose our favourite so far, the entries were so diverse!

However, we LOVE William Sandford's submission & we are very happy to have it on our front cover!

You can see all our other fabulous entries over on our online gallery.

Wolf Bones

Wolf Bones have opened their Eco-Boutique in Glasgow.

You can now get your hands on copies of Heart & Lungs here too!

Wolf Bones

IronBbratz Floor 3

84 Miller Street

Glasgow

G1 1DT

I've Zine You

This time next week we'll have ourselves a stall at the I've Zine You market.

We'll be selling Issue One & Two of Heart & Lungs along with some other little zines.

So come say hello, look around and get your zine on.

Sunday 28th August, 10am - 8pm (we'll only be there till around 4pm)

Book Trust

55 High Street

Edinburgh

EH1 1SR

Ok folks, time to start doodling for our Issue Three front cover!

Our next theme will be 'Bruised Knees & ABCs'.

Feel free to interpret the theme any way you please, but if you're stuck, think childhood/typography/innocence & follow these super simple guidelines:

• Entries must be A5 and in black & white
• Entries must be submitted by 15th September

Our favourite submission will be featured on our front cover, runners up will be included inside the zine & all entries will be displayed in our online gallery.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's work!

If you haven't already got your copy of Issue One or Two, you can do so here.

New address.

We have a new address.

Our creators/publishers Wolf Bones have a lovely new studio/shop/workshop space (read more about it here) and we'll be editing/printing Heart & Lungs there too.

So if you're sending anything to us (we do hope you will) send it to:

Heart & Lungs

Ironbbratz Floor 3

84 Miller Street

Glasgow

G1 1DT

Exciting times ahead!

Made In The Shade Maisonette.

We're extremely pleased to say that our zines are now available to buy from the adorable Made In The Shade Maisonette!

The rule of paying what you choose still applies; just jump up to the Maisonette, find our zines and pop your chosen amount of pennies into the little envelope provided!

So head on over to the Made In The Shade Maisonette, De Courcy's Arcade, 21 Cresswell Lane, Glasgow & get yourself a copy!

Nice words.

It really is lovely when we get nice feedback about our little zine.

On of the main aims of Heart & Lungs is to inspire people, so when we got a tweet saying...

'Your zine is so inspirational :) really want to create my own little zine now :)'

...it put a massive smile on our faces.

Any more feedback you'd like to give? Leave us a comment & let us know what you think of our zine, or things we could improve, we'd love to hear from you.

Issue Two Launch!

Issue two has now officially launched!

With a theme of 'Stories from the Sea' throughout, it includes an interview with Michael C. Hsiung, your Wise Words, project & events listings, stories from Nadine Hylton-King, Tracey Gaughan adn Thula Kumalo, our favourite products, a zine crush feature & artwork from Jamie Mitchell, Freddy Thorn, Marina Elina, Michael Lomax, Michael Lacey and Jo Cheung.

Ooft.

Have a peep...

You can buy your own copy here.
And remember, you get to choose how much to pay for it!

Today we've been busy printing, folding & sewing all our Issue Two pre-orders...

...and they are all ready for posting out tomorrow!

You can order your copy here.

Issue Two Preview!

Printing has commenced & here's a wee video preview of our next issue...

It launches on 1st August but you can pre-order your copy now!

Click here to choose what price you'd like to pay.

Heart & Lungs Issue Two.

Wow.

We have had an amazing amount of fantastic front cover submissions for our next issue themed 'Stories From The Sea'.

Thank you so so so so much to everyone that submitted, we appreciate it bajillions.

After much debating, we have decided on an octopus-tastic illustration by Jamie Mitchell to use on our front cover for August/September...

You can look in awe at all our other submissions too over in our Gallery, some of which will also be featured throughout the zine.

Speaking of which, you can now pre-order your copy of issue to by heading here & come the 1st of August it will pop through your letterbox.

Neat, huh?

'Stories from the Sea' front cover.

We want you to design the front cover for our August/September issue.

The theme is 'Stories from the sea.'

We want to see ships, mermaids, octopus, pirates, sand, fish, waves, storms, sailors, whales...

Send your black & white A5 submissions by 15th July 2011 to:

heartandlungs@iheartdotdotdot.co.uk

All submissions will be displayed in our online gallery, a few runners up will be featured inside the zine & one lucky pup will be published as our front cover.

Get to it!

Get involved.

Our June/July issue has been selling like hot-cakes! It's amazing to hear so many of your kind words about our zine & how many of you are interested in contributing. (pssst, if you haven't got your copy yet, click here.)

So, we want to make our August/September issue even BETTER.

How it turns out is entirely up you you talented creatures. Here is a list of ways you can contribute to our next zine...

► Our next issue will have the theme of 'Stories from the Sea'. For a chance to have your entry on our front cover, send us an A5 black & white submission that ties in with the theme to: 

heartandlungs@iheartdotdotdot.co.uk

► It's no secret how much we like getting things in the post, write us a letter!

► Tell us your Wise Words.

► If you have any artwork/handmade products that fit the theme of 'Stories from the Sea' let us know & you could be featured in our favourites page.

► New to our next issue is our 'Once upon a time...' feature, where we want you to write us a story. More info here.

► Want people to know about an event or project you've organised? Let us know about it & we'll pop it in our events/projects listings.

► To be considered for a feature, interview, blog... e-mail us.

► And of course, if there's anything else you'd like to see in the zine, let us know!

Get involved.

(All submissions must be in by 15th July 2011.)

We are back in the not so sunny Glasgow after 10 days in a similarly not so sunny Spain, most days looked like this...

However, we had an AMAZING time at the Ilu-station Fest in Barcelona.

We browsed though many an awesome zine at the zine market held at Miscelanea...

...checked out exhibitions at Fat Bottom Books, Chandal, Cream Espai Creatiu...

...and took part in the Ilu-station workshops...

A big thank you to Manu who was kind enough to take time to talk to us & show us around.

We are most definitely inspired & may even think about holding our own zine market here in Scotland sometime in the future!

Ilustation Fest.

We're off on holiday!

Tomorrow we're setting off to Barcelona for this...

...a zine festival with zine market, exhibitions & workshops.

We're excited.

This does however mean that any orders of our June/July issue won't be sent out until we get back on the 15th June. But it'll be worth the wait I'm sure.

Adios amigos!

3, 2, 1, Launch.

Our June/July issue has officially launched!

If you still need to get your hands on a copy, which is filled with an interview with Sandra Dieckmann, a feature article on Donna Wilson, blog by Carrie MacLennan, events & projects listings plus a whole lot of beard & bear-tastic bits, you can do so buy clicking here.

Aaaand, remember, YOU choose how much to pay.

If however, the postie has already brought you your June/July issue, let us know what you think! Do you love it? Is there anything you'd like to see added to our next issue? Anything else you'd like to say about it?

Leave a comment on this post & let us know!

(If you've got anything bad to say, don't worry, we won't come get you. Promise!)

Post.

After a long day of print, print, printing...

We've packed & posted all of our June/July issue pre-orders!

You can buy your copy here.

Preview!

Here's a wee preview of our June/July issue.

You can pre-order your copy here.