Making Stuff & Doing Things
A collection of DIY Guides to Just about Everything.

Kyle Bravo has assembled his HOW2 zines into a comprehensive book along with dozens of other instructional articles that tell you how to do…just about everything.

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Topics include getting active, direct action, gardening, making a woodstove, solar box cooker, egg replacer, how to make wine, homebrewing, liberated lifestyles, squats, homeschooling, fixing a toilet, audio phone patch, how to make envelopes, shoe repair, silk screening, making rubber stamps, how to juggle, magic tricks, making puppets, how to patch your clothes, putting utensils on your keychain, how to sing, bird feeders, how to play guitar, putting out records, billboard improvement, how to fix your bike, basic car maintenance, building a bike cart, how to take pride in your body, how to sexually stimulate your partner, diy birth control, how to handle an overdose, self defense, knowing your rights, how to live a more fulfilling life, unschooling, starting a fire with friction, making glue from pine sap, making rope, wild food, natural remedies, fire logs from newspapers, rubbing alcohol campstove, composting, diy toothpaste, getting rid of fruit flies, greywater systems, composting toliets, making hanging and floating tents, saving money at the post office, making posters and stencils, packing for tours, places to dumpster dive, making a tape wallet, building a cart-bike, cleaning stamps, blockprinting, fixing a harmonica, diy flowerpots, avoiding dangerous household chemicals, preventing ear infections, how women can pee standing up, menstrual massages, and a few pieces for inspiration. I’m sure you can see by now why this is essential.
Price: £9.00

Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2- A DIY Zine Resource
Alex Wrekk compiled this DIY guide that teaches how to make zines, understand zine culture, and make your own zine related crafts. The stuff you know, stuff you don’t know, stuff you didn’t know you knew.
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Just about everything with a focus on zines. Tips and tricks for photocopying, doing creative layouts, mail art, zine ettiquette, how to deal with distros, making paper, starting/working a distro, how to put out a record, how to make your own envelopes and stationary, binding ideas, advertising ideas, cures for writers block and tons more.

This is the second print edition

Price: £4.00

Make a Zine!: When Words and Graphics Collide
by Joe Biel

Ask anyone who works for a magazine — it’s a job. Ask anyone who works on their zine — it’s a passion. And this book is a starting point for launching your own zine. A virtually endless supply of hints makes this an indespensible guide and the appendices add extensive directories of stores, libraries, reviewers, and zine distributors.
Price: £5.00

Earth Writings
Author: Graham Burnett

Collected in this volume are Graham’s articles, artwork, songs and conversations spanning 3 decades of involvement in ‘Earth Right’ activities, from animal rights protest to compost toilet building. It features material that has appeared in publications as diverse as Green Anarchist and Permaculture Magazine to Attitude Problem and The Idler, as well as his own self published (and some previously unpublished) work.


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Herein Graham provides commentary, practical advice, and his own unique and often witty personal takes on issues including guerrilla gardening, permaculture, allotmenteering, forest gardening, punk and DIY culture, LETS and community economics, veganism, ecological building and rustic furniture making and low impact living, as well as his graphic visions for a post energy-descent future… MAKE COMPOST, NOT WAR!!!
Price: £7.00

Permaculture: A Beginners Guide
Author: Graham Burnett

So what exactly is ‘Permaculture’? Whether you are aged 12 or 120, this concise yet information rich graphic guide provides the answers, and more importantly will encourage you to apply it’s ethics and principles of sustainability and working with, rather than against, nature to your land (whether it’s a windowbox or a 1000 hectare farm), your community and your life.

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Do It Yourself Screenprinting
Author: John Isaacson
192 pages

A fascinating graphic novel that details the art and science of screenprinting from inception to printed t-shirts to working in a print shop to understanding line screens, to hawking your printed wares on the street! How to build a screen, burn an image, test how things are going, pull ink, wash out screens, know what screen mesh to use, and creative ideas. It’s a true joy to see the exaggerated illustrations while learning such a useful and practical craft! How to turn your home into a t-shirt factory! Essential for people who don’t know how to screenprint or those a bit rusty.

Price: £5.50
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13 Years of Good Luck
by Joe Biel (Editor), Dylan Gaylan-Wilkerson (Editor), E. Chris Lynch (Editor)
publisher: Microcosm

To celebrate their thirteenth anniversary, Microcosm put together this compilation of work from their authors and artists.
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With something from virtually everyone They’ve published before and new work from Al Burian, Liz Baillie, Keith Rosson, John Isaacson, Nate Beaty, Cristy Road, and others!
Price: £3.00
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Make Your Place
Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills by Raleigh Briggs

Raleigh Briggs teaches us how to craft a sustainable domestic life outside of consumer consciousness. And it’s not as hard as we may think! This hand-drawn book of charming tutorials is both fun and accessible. It’s full of simple skills that anyone can and should learn. From creating tinctures and salves, to concocting all-natural cleaners, to gardening basics, this book is great for anyone looking to live more simply and truly do it themselves.
Price: £4.50