Post on 19-Jul-2015
Iona Spence-Dingle
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MEDIA UNIT 21 MAGAZINE RESEARCH
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
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.
SPOOK MAGAZINE
Editor-In-Chief:Jason Parham
Categories:‘Progressive culture’
Frequency:Biannual
Founder:
Year Founded:2009
First Issue:
Headquarters:Melbourne, Australia
SPOOKSpook 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.
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
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.
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
COMPANYCompany 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.