Directions Magazine – Issue 17

Directions Magazine Issue 17 (Odyssey) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. This issue is all about the joy, creativity and solace to be found in the simple act of walking. Walking is an act and culture older than humanity itself, one that binds us to the land, and lets our imaginations take flight. With the whole world feeling out of step, it seemed natural to take walking as our anchor for this year’s issue. In an extraordinary time for travel, with a great deal of care and hope, our global and diverse team of writers, artists and photographers set out to investigate how the steady beat of putting one foot in front of the other has the power to ground us, connect us, and carry us forward into change.

Directions Magazine is an annual publication that looks at movements underway in art, design, food, wellness and fashion, and how they affect the way we live and travel. Featuring leading writers, photographers, illustrators, and designers. The magazine explores a different theme in each issue, culling the insights of various thought leaders and industry innovators into a vividly illustrated, boundary-pushing travel and lifestyle magazine. Directions Magazine is a publication by Design Hotels™. Go there now with Directions magazine, an annual publication that looks at movements underway in art, design, food, wellness and fashion, and how they affect the way we live and travel. Featuring leading writers, photographers, illustrators, and designers, Directions explores a different theme in each issue, culling the insights of various thought leaders and industry innovators into a vividXly illustrated, boundary-pushing travel and lifestyle magazine.

Features: Directions Magazine – Issue 17

Travel Stripped Bare
Travel author and avid wayfarer Jini Reddy walks us through the impact and significance of walking and reminds us just how empowering, inclusive, and inspiring it can be.

My Own Private Odyssey
For this collective odyssey, we asked a range of artists, writers, and designers from around the world to develop creative expressions resulting from walking near their home base—in whatever medium they chose.

Pachamama’s Land
An extraordinary local journey through vertical archipelagos of high-altitude ecosystems, discovering ancient plant lore in Peru’s Sacred Valley.

The Beautiful Art of Getting Lost
Walking is a way to come home, to connect with the world. There is no map with the best route for that.

The Good Traveler
Ten principles that are ten steps towards promadic traveling with a lighter, more careful footprint.

So Far Away, So Near
An invitation to a nomadic settlement in Gansu province, comprising 230 families, 6,000 yak, and 20,000 sheep.

The Making of Patina Maldives
In the fragile tropical ecology of the Fari islands, Brazilian architects MK27 are seeking to connect inside to outside and nature to experience, with architecture and art.

Design Hotels Walks
We asked our hotels to share their most picturesque, challenging, and inspiring walks, and turned it into an interactive series