We offer a zine design service for organisations and individuals creating positive social impact. We can help you document your project and share your work with a wider audeince.
Are you a educational organisation, campaign or community group? Our zine-making workshops create space for creative expression, idea exploration and storytelling.
What do we do?
We work with campaign groups, schools, archives, libraries, youth programmes, community groups and individuals running social impact projects. We collaborate to:
Design powerful, accessible zines
Create custom zine workshop kits
Run zine-making sessions
Co-create projects rooted in lived experience and collective imagination, documented in a zine
We're interested in expanding what zines can be. Working across audio, performance, visual art and digital media zines become shared, multi-sensory tools for world-making, extending beyond static pages.
Whether you need a bespoke zine for a project or support running a community workshop, we bring creativity and care to all the projects we work on.
Shelby X
The X in Shelby X Studios represents collaboration. We’ve worked with grassroots groups, archives, campaigners, schools, universities, community organisations and artists.
ZINE DESIGN
Legacy documents:
Capturing projects so their stories and learning can be shared beyond it.
The Power of Voice Zine 2026
Shelby x NLT x Audible
Working across print and interactive digital formats our zines can be used in lots of different ways:
Impact reports:
A creative and accessible way to share learning, stories and impact.
100 Agents of Change
Shelby x In Place of War
Campaign tools:
Amplify campaigns, share ideas and make activism more accessible.
Hackney Art Activism Festival
Shelby x Reel Rebels Radio
Resources + Guides
Practical, accessible ways of sharing knowledge and ideas.
Bristol 650
Shelby x Bristol Ideas
From prison justice campaigns to refugee solidarity, from youth creativity to building better cities we use zine-making as a way to share stories, explore ideas, document movements and imagine better futures.
Our projects create space for radical imagination - dreaming up new possibilities and exploring the worlds we want to see. We also offer accessibility PDFs and large format versions.
ZINE WORKSHOPS
We run zine-making sessions working with our network of artists to create sessions around different themes, ideas and projects.
Sessions can be based around one of the zines in our archive, using it as a starting point for learning and discussion, or can be developed around your own project.
Zine-making can help you capture the impact of a project, explore an idea, dream up a new project or embed care into your work.
what our clients have to say…
“Working with Shelby x Studios is a dream. They are able to take our ideas and bring them into something more creative than we could have ever imagined. Their wonderfully clear, iterative and care-filled process, pays real attention to issues of inclusivity, access and equity. We can’t wait to work with them again soon!”
BRISTOL IDEAS
“Shelby x Studios was a fantastic facilitator for our young people, leading a workshop on making mini zines based on topics that were important to them. They kept the young people engaged and excited, and set up a safe space in which participants felt comfortable to share their experiences and ideas.”
ART AGAINST KNIVES
“The zine brilliantly brought back the feeling of joy from all the amazing creative events held during Refugee Week. We love the colours, the design and the inclusion of so many participant comments. Thank you for all your hard work on this beautiful contribution to our Borough of Culture.”
BOROUGH OF CULTURE
Got a project in mind?
Get in touch!
OUR ZINES HELP YOU TO…
Document projects
Share information
Connect with people
Shout about what you do
Do It Yourself!
Want to make a zine yourself or bring zine-making to a group? Start your own Rebel Zine Club! Explore the zines in our archive and find resources for making zines, exploring ideas and running your own sessions.
