Brown Elbow

An Aberdeen University student newspaper which took its name from what happens when you start stirring the sh*t. It was rudimentary, hardly more than a stencil duplicated ‘rag’. But its eight A4 pages were printed on two A3 folded sheets and weren't stapled together in the top left-hand corner. Definitely a cut above! When the publishers discovered Letraset dry transfer lettering the hand lettering quickly gave way to Cooper Black - which, all things considered, was appropriate.

In a snippet on an inside page (second image) their ‘editorial committee’ took a swipe at the dubious literary quality of their printer's own fortnightly alternative newspaper, Aberdeen People's Press. Nearly fifty years on it's difficult to be sure who was kidding whom…