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Fran Méndez is a designer, art director and lecturer working in London. After over eight years in senior brand consultancy roles, he recently co-founded Hondo Studio with María Vioque Nguyen, and one of their first projects has been Anima, an exciting new magazine covering all aspects of design.

On a mission to bring true Indonesian food to the world, Rahel Stephanie runs London’s sell-out supper club Spoons and has just launched a zine, Pedas. A mix of recipes and musings about Rahel’s Jakarta roots, it has been vividly designed to express the spice of the cuisine. She tells us more as she shares her week ahead.

 

We feature plenty of bright new magazines here, but this week we hear from the editor of one that has just marked its 50th anniversary. Rory Boland is editor of Which? Travel, the holiday advice magazine published by UK consumer campaign group Which? Rory has plenty of sound advice to offer as he shares its history.

British magazine Eleven uses the guitar as a springboard for themes of music, creativity and storytelling. We hear from founder Eleanor Jane, a music photographer who saw an opportunity in the lack of adventure shown by traditional music magazines. Find out more as she shares her week and her influences.

Roughcast is a new magazine published to centre freelancers and ‘entertain people who realise it’s worth paying to cosume art’. Two of its founders, editor Simon Doherty and art director Erin Rimmer, share the origins of their magazine the second issue arrives in shops.

Launched in 2005 as a streetwear blog, Highsnobiety has grown into a global media brand specialising in music, the arts, fashion and culture. Its flagship print magazine reports from the cutting edge of culture. Editor-in-chief Willa Bennett shares her working week as issue 34 of the quarterly appears in shops.