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This week we visit Helsinki to hear from architect Lee Marable and Finnish ceramicist Roosa Melentjeff, the people behind arts and culture magazine BUM. Immediately appealing for its physical appearance, each themed issue gives voice to young designers and critics to express themselves.

We start the week in Japan with Rachel Davies, who launched Storied magazine in the middle of the Covid lockdown. The quarterly magazine reflects the affection she has developed for her adopted home—the places, crafts, and traditions of Japan—and her dedication to digging deeper to share local stories.

Ghislain Pascal has been promoting and supporting photographers and their work since the nineties, as agent, publicist, gallerist and now magazine publisher. He answers our weekly Q&A as the third issue of his magazine Boys! Boys! Boys!, dedicated to work by queer and gay photographers, appears in shops.

Ella Paradis launched The Black Explorer in 2020 partly in response to her experience as a black woman working in the travel industry. As she starts to prepare the third issue, she discusses her working process and the origins of her magazine in the racism she faced as a Black tourist.

Data visualisation has a big role today—our digital lives are built on it, and we see ever more complex information expressed in print. Yet there’s little coverage of the form as a creative medium. An exception is Market Cafe Market, produced by a pair of data viz specialists in London and Amsterdam.

Pocket-sized mag Desired Landscapes has a unique approach to travel, exploring the visual culture of cities and asking ‘What is a city (now)?’ As founder Natassa Pappa answers our weekly Q&A, she ponders whether a regular Zoom call might be considered a city.