Travel Archives - STACK magazines

Troublemakers issue 2

Steve Watson — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:04:49 +0000

Quiet and calming, Troublemakers paints an affectionate but carefully critical picture of life in contemporary Japan. Its strapline is ’embracing misfits’, and it shines a light on people who have chosen to live in unconventional ways, appreciating their individuality in a strictly ordered, hierarchical society.

In this issue:

Literary scholar Fukuko Kobayashi reflects on a lifetime of radical feminism
Genders slip under pressure from social media in Female Degeneracy, Li Kotomi’s surreal short story
A Cambodian American woman tells the unconventional love story that brought her to Japan
A British man encounters Kurdish workers on a Japanese building site
And step inside Kabe to Tamago, the Tokyo neighbourhood cafe and beloved haven for misfits

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No One issue 2

Steve Watson — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:20:54 +0000

Each issue of No One sets out for a different city and reports on the queer nightlife it finds there. For this second issue the magazine travelled to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to create a richly detailed picture of the overlapping scenes that have grown up within and between Vietnam’s most populous cities.

In this issue:

How Lô Tô brought trans artistry to Vietnam’s mainstream
Inside Vietnam’s burgeoning ballroom scene
The queer artist who dances with a motorcycle on her head
Club nights, cave raves, ballroom functions, villa gatherings, beach parties, and more
And lots of photography from the cities’ clubs, streets and queer spaces

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Surprise Pack issue 5

Steve Watson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:58:14 +0000

Have you ever wanted to try Stack without fully committing to joining the club? This limited-edition Surprise Pack is the perfect way to do exactly that, providing a one-off delivery of five previous subscriber magazines for just £20. As always, there are only 100 of these Surprise Packs available and we’re not re-stocking, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The magazines in this pack are worth a total of £84 and just like with our monthly magazine club, you won’t know what they are until they arrive at your door. They cover a range of subjects, from design to travel, and from dancing to the environment, and they have all been enjoyed by our subscribers at some point in the last year or so.

Numbers are always strictly limited for these special offers, so grab yours while you can. And at the risk of stating the obvious, please don’t buy this Surprise Pack if you have been a Stack subscriber in the last year, because you will already own these magazines!

Our artwork for this fifth edition of the Surprise Pack was created by art director, graphic designer and illustrator Ant Gardner. We love his weird little characters and lovely lettering – see more at antgardner.com.

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Desired Landscapes 7

Steve Watson — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:41:36 +0000

Small and compact, Desired Landscapes is modelled on a pocket travel guide, and its contributors set out to explore the streets of far-flung cities. But this is no straightforward travel tool, and instead readers are invited to go on journeys of the mind; slowing down, escaping the everyday, and discovering their own ‘desired landscapes’.

In this issue:

Discovering new truths in ancient maps
Getting lost in Vienna
A typographic tour of the old shopfronts in Athens
Improvised ways to occupy Hong Kong’s streets
Uncovering Tbilisi’s architecture archive

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Surprise Pack issue 3

Steve Watson — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:40:19 +0000

The third edition of our Surprise Pack is the ideal way to get a taste of our monthly magazine club experience, but without subscribing. Buy this Surprise Pack and you’ll get a one-off delivery of five previous subscriber magazines for just £20. But there are only 100 of these Surprise Packs available and we’re not re-stocking, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The magazines in this pack are worth a total of £72 and just like with our monthly magazine club, you won’t know exactly what they are until they arrive at your door. (Don’t be fooled by the illustration above – these are not magazines about coffee! Though we thoroughly recommend reading them with a drink by your side.) They cover a range of subjects, from art and design, to literature and the environment, and they have all been enjoyed by our subscribers at some point in the last year.

Numbers will always be strictly limited for these special offers, so grab yours while you can. And at the risk of stating the obvious, please don’t buy this Surprise Pack if you have been a Stack subscriber in the last year, because you will already own these magazines!

Our artwork for this third edition is by Brazilian artist Daniel Batista. We love his bright, wobbly illustrations – to see more of his work, go to instagram.com/freshprincipee.

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OFF issue 1

Heval Okcuoglu — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:17:12 +0000

Published by sportswear brand On Running, OFF focuses on stories at the intersection of movement, design, and sustainability. This first issue is themed ‘Disconnection’, logging off from the digital world and reconnecting with both the natural world and local communities.

In this issue:

Inside NYC’s underground race scene
The people working to protect Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
The future of psychedelics — could they make you fitter, happier and healthier?
Trail running through the Himalayas

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Fare issue 10

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:04:29 +0000

Fare magazine is a biannual print publication exploring city culture through the intersections of food, history, and community. Each issue is guided by local writers, photographers, and illustrators, who give a taste of their home city.

This issue explores Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital and one of its spiritual centres.

In this issue:

The history of kaiseki cuisine in a centuries-old, three Michelin star tea house
The workshop of a fourth-generation lacquer maker and activist who applies ancient techniques to wooden skateboards and bikes
Handcrafted jōgashi sweets inspired by changing seasons and the city’s imperial past
A look inside daily life at the student-run Yoshida ryo, the oldest wooden dormitory in Japan

Issue nine and Issue five of Fare are also available in the Stack shop.

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Desired Landscapes issue 5

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:42:01 +0000

Made in Athens, Desired Landscapes is an experimental travel journal disguised as an unassuming city guide.

In this issue:

Discussing Lance Wyman’s visual navigation systems and the sense of place in cities
What if we could end the arbitrary binary between what is nature and what is not?
Approaching Seoul through eight iconic locations that appear in Korean Wave films
Hyperlocal tourism as an antidote to forced confinement

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Cartography issue 9

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:02:18 +0000

Cartography is a large-format travel magazine that presents a series of itineraries across different cities, regions and even entire countries. Whimsical and spiritual, they specialise in communicating the unique feeling of a place, rather than simply recommending places to eat or stay

This ninth issue covers Georgia in nine days; the Galápagos Islands in nine days, and Swedish Lapland in three days.

In this issue:

The extraordinary Galápagos islands
Georgia’s rugged geography and its tormented history
Can we still travel?

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Hamam issue 5

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:56:25 +0000

Hamam is a quarterly print publication that celebrates the art and culture of bathing. The theme of this issue is ‘Strange’, created by digging into the ordinary and turning up something unexpected.

In this issue:

On Mudpool, Rabyn Blake’s revolutionary video artwork
Strange bathers — photographer Ruth Kaplan’s images from saunas, springs and public baths around the world
Everything is connected — a tour of bathing customs in Japanese bathhouses
Common occurrences: photographer Yushi Li’s prosaic fantasies

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