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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.