In 2019, we collaborated with graphic designer Juliette Bellocq and Handbuilt Studios to create the Annual Report for the Immaculate Heart Community. The publication was designed in homage to the irregular bulletin, a much loved publication of Immaculate Heart College Art Department from 1956-1963.

For the full report, please go here.

Highlights from the Report

We also created a companion video to explain the history of the irregular bulletin.

Published intermittently by the Immaculate Heart College Art Department from 1956 - 1963, the irregular bulletin was a newsletter edited by the inimitable Sister Magdalen Mary, announcing the various activities and accomplishments of the students and faculty, including Corita Kent, who succeeded Sister Magdalen Mary as head of the Art Department. So what was it, you ask? The irregular bulletin was initially comprised of a few pages of printed paper announcing departmental news, but it then quickly evolved into a longer and broader publication, with a distinct graphic style that in many ways presaged the formation of contemporary zines.

In this video, we hear from Juliette and Hermine Lees, a member of the Immaculate Heart Community, who studied under Sister Magdalen Mary and is a collector of irregular bulletins.