Journal tagged by At work with

Sometimes a new magazine just hits a sweet spot, and that’s certainly the case with ROAM, a new launch aiming to make the growing folk artistic movement more inclusive, accessible and forward-thinking. It’s flown off our shelves this past week, so we asked founder Henry Rayment-Pickard to give us the lowdown.

Launched earlier this year, hube is a heavyweight biannual magazine of art, culture and tchnology, offering ‘The cultural context of tomorrow’, according to its founder, Ukrainian art/culture producer Sasha Kovaleva. She explains more as she shares her working week with us.

Each issue—or ‘archive’, as founder Kara Zwaanstra prefers it—of Ø8-12 promises a detailed look at a different niche topic, starting with Japanese dagashi sweets. Kara explains more, and reveals the subject of issue two, as she describes her working week and shares her inspirations.

Birthe Steinbeck art directs German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung’s weekly magazine, managing a team of designers and collaborating with creative contributors from across the world to create its award-winning pages. She tells us about her week as a special fashion issue of the magazine is published.

We missed the original 13 issue run of New Escapologist, but on its return to print after a ‘five year nap’ we immediately fell for its idiosyncratic mix of gentle humour and more serious stories. Editor Robert  Wringham discusses the return of his magazine as he shares his influences and week ahead.

Over the past ten years Hamburg’s Indiecon has established itself as the premier festival of indie publishing, with a huge public fair and three days of talks and roundtables. Co-curator Nina Prader looks forward to this year’s anniversary edition as she shares her work routine, inspirations and week ahead.