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The recent repackaging of The Guardian’s Saturday sections into a single new publication—titled Saturday—has seen the design team introduce an entirely new visual direction. Deputy cretaive director Chris Clarke explains the thinking behind the change as he shares his working week.

Artist, graphic designer and writer Scott King published The Debrist Manifesto this summer, a personal treatise about embracing failure. ‘I did the bulk of it in two days… but then, of course, fiddled around with phrases and footnotes for two months,’ he explains as he shares his inspirations and his week ahead.

When writer/editor Zena Alkayat couldn’t find the gardening inspiration she was looking for, she launched her own magazine, Bloom. With its tenth issue recently published, Zena tells us about her magazine, her week ahead, and how her two worlds—magazine and books—are coming together with a new series of Bloom spin-offs.

We start the week with Matteo Clossu, editor of football magazine Uno-Due, as their third issue goes on sale. The publication looks at society through the lens of football, with a wide range of stories presented with great design and visual flair. Matteo shares his week ahead and advice for wannebe publishers.

London indie The Fence has quietly developed a keen audience for its mix of satire, exposé and fiction, all presented in vivid black and red. Here, editor Charles Baker describes his working week and reveals the origins of the magazine’s name and their inspirations.

This week we head to Hong Kong to hear from Kenny X Li, who has just published the first issue of YeP YeP, an image-only magazine showcasing the city’s creative community and challenging our expectations of life under the political turmoil there over the last two years.