Kinfolk is a quarterly slow lifestyle magazine founded in 2011 in Portland, Oregon by Nathan Williams. It explores ways to simplify life and spend more time with family and community through photo essays, recipes, and interviews. Each issue is themed around the current season. Spook is a biannual progressive culture digital magazine based in Melbourne, Australia that brings a mix of local and international content in fashion, music, art, film and politics. Cherry Bombe is a biannual indie magazine founded in 2012 in New York City by Kerry Diamond and Claudia Wu that celebrates women and food through thought-provoking stories and beautiful photography.

1. Iona Spence-Dingle
Personal Project
MEDIA UNIT 21
MAGAZINE RESEARCH

2. KINFOLK MAGAZINE
Editor-In-Chief:
Nathan Williams
Categories:
‘Slow lifestyle’
Frequency:
Quarterly
Founder:
Nathan Williams
Year Founded:
2011
First Issue:
July 2011
Headquarters:
Portland, Oregon USA

3. KINFOLK
Kinfolk is an independent slow lifestyle magazine, published by Ouur from
Oregon USA, that explores ways for readers to simplify their lives, cultivate
community and spend more time with friends and family. Kinfolk was
created by Nathan Williams, his wife Katie Searle-Williams and their friends
Doug and Paige Bischoff in July 2011. Primarily a lifestyle magazine aimed at
young professionals, it focuses on home, work, play, food and community
through photo essays, recipes, interviews, profiles, personal stories and
practical tips. The writers, photographers, designers and chefs that
contribute to Kinfolk are drawn from a largely international pool of creative
people, often featuring more than 50 individual contributors an issue.
Released quarterly, each issue is themed around a topic that is related to
the season it is being published in, with all food, entertaining and lifestyle
content geared towards that theme. Sample articles include interviews with
well-known chefs, sample themed menus with accompanying recipes,
illustrated guides to daily encounters and inspirational photo essays
encouraging readers to try new activities.

4. SPOOK MAGAZINE
Editor-In-Chief:
Jason Parham
Categories:
‘Progressive culture’
Frequency:
Biannual
Founder:
Year Founded:
2009
First Issue:
Headquarters:
Melbourne, Australia

5. SPOOK
Spook is a progressive culture digital magazine, publishing innovative
content in the realms of fashion, music, art, film and politics. Striving
to bring a cleanly curated mix of local Australian and international
content to our readers. Spook Magazine has a target readership of
young people who are seeking a stylish and modern yet intelligent
and considered publication. As well as the print publication, Spook
magazine has a strong online base to cater to its young and very
technologically aware readership.

6. CHERRY BOMBE
Editor-In-Chief:
Kerry Diamond
Categories:
‘biannual indie magazine that
celebrates women and food’
Frequency:
Biannual
Founder/s:
Kerry Diamond & Claudia Wu
Year Founded:
2012
First Issue:
Spring 2012
Headquarters:
New York City, USA

7. CHERRY BOMBE
Cherry Bombe is a visually stunning indie magazine that showcases
incredible food and women in the culinary industry that grow, make,
serve and style it. It's thought-provoking, beautiful, and showcases
inspiring stories from the industry in its exploration of the entire
food industry from every angle. The magazine is published bi-
annually and every issue features a variety of cultures, cuisines and
voices—chefs and servers, food stylists and scientists, culinary icons
and up-and-coming entrepreneurs—as documented by some of the
most interesting food and fashion writers and photographers
around.

8. COMPANYMAGAZINE
Editor-In-Chief:
Victoria White
Categories:
Tabloid (young) women’s interest
Frequency:
Monthly (online only since 2014)
Founder/s:
Maggie Goodman
Year Founded:
1978
Headquarters:
London, UK

9. COMPANY
Company magazine was launched in 1978 by Hearst, focused on
engaging young women between the ages sixteen and twenty four,
and as an alternative to Cosmopolitan magazine, which is aimed at
older women. For thirty six years Company magazine was published
on a monthly basis, featuring articles on all number of topics
including fashion, beauty and celebrity. In 2014 Company magazine
was converted to a completely online platform, in order to stay
relevant to their social media focused, youth readership. However
Company’s online-presence has retained it’s glossy magazine
qualities, through creative use of type-faces and the packed-in
arrangement of articles on the home page.