Top 3 Independent Magazine You Should Know

Cereal

Cereal is an independent biannual travel and style magazine based in Bath, United Kingdom. Each issue focuses on a select few destinations, with stories and interviews on design, art and style.Cereal was founded by Rosa Park (editor-in-chief) and Rich Stapleton (creative director) in 2012 as a quarterly publication. With Volume 9 (2015), Cereal changed to a biannual release schedule, publishing in March and September every year.Alongside the magazine, Cereal publishes regular digital stories on their website, update online city guides, publish physical city guide books, and publish a number of other books.

Kinfolk

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 who 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.

Another Escape

Another Escape is an outdoor lifestyle, creative culture and sustainable living publication that explores the stories of passionate people, alluring landscapes and intriguing ideas. We cover a disparate selection of subject matter all deep-rooted in exploration, creativity, innovation and discovery, and aim to be a source of inspiration for those who seek an active and considered lifestyle by encouraging an optimistic, forward-thinking and responsible mindset. The publication is a high quality journal: Another Escape is 160 pages on beautiful, quality 120gsm uncoated paper stock (FSC approved & Euro Ecolabel) with 300gsm matte laminate cover, printed in vegetable inks with a local printer.

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Reference:

Mountain & Co: https://medium.com/mountain-and-co/interview-with-another-escape-magazine-c8fe6d516043

https://www.creativeboom.com/features/20-independent-magazines-that-every-creative-should-have-on-their-coffee-table/

https://gawker.com/wood-citrus-lattes-feet-twine-repeat-the-kinfolk-1693115156

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinfolk_(magazine)

https://www.racked.com/2016/3/14/11173148/kinfolk-lifestyle-magazines

https://www.anglepoise.com/news/in-conversation-with-cereal-magazine

Another Escape

Another Escape is an outdoor lifestyle, creative culture and sustainable living publication that explores the stories of passionate people, alluring landscapes and intriguing ideas. We cover a disparate selection of subject matter all deep-rooted in exploration, creativity, innovation and discovery, and aim to be a source of inspiration for those who seek an active and considered lifestyle by encouraging an optimistic, forward-thinking and responsible mindset. The publication is a high quality journal: Another Escape is 160 pages on beautiful, quality 120gsm uncoated paper stock (FSC approved & Euro Ecolabel) with 300gsm matte laminate cover, printed in vegetable inks with a local printer.

Another Escape is made by a small but highly dedicated team in Bristol, UK, who work with a network of contributors from around the globe. We work closely with our printers to ensure that our product is of the highest quality and produced through sustainable methods.

Another Escape is an outdoor lifestyle and creative culture publication that explores the stories of passionate people and the motivations behind their inspirational lifestyles. The editorial team covers a disparate selection of subject matter all deep-rooted in exploration, creativity, innovation and discovery. They are “gentle and humble in tone with an investigative nature and look for interesting practices in which people can be exploratory or creative in unusual and extraordinary ways”. The magazine aims to be a source of inspiration for those seeking a fulfilling lifestyle.

I like this magazine because its elegant editorial design allows both text and image to work in tandem to create strong narratives, which is similar with the magazine:”Kinfolk”. (The independent magazine you should know: Kinfolk)

The calm and thought provoking pace created by the design aesthetic reflects approach to slow journalism and allows for an immersive reading experience. Timeless content ensures that our product has the longevity to be enjoyed time and time again and to be passed from reader to reader. Storytelling is at the heart of what we do. Their words are insightful, informative with a warming and uplifting tone.

Another Escape was always intended to be a print publication. People interact with printed matter differently to digital: digital is largely about quick reads and short attention spans. Whereas, our publication invites and encourages people to step away from the screen, slow down, read lengthier pieces and interact with something tactile. I think there’s a place for print and a place for digital, and they can complement one another.

Co-founders of Another Escape

Reference:

Mountain & Co: https://medium.com/mountain-and-co/interview-with-another-escape-magazine-c8fe6d516043

https://www.creativeboom.com/features/20-independent-magazines-that-every-creative-should-have-on-their-coffee-table/

http://anotherescape.com/

https://www.magazinestacks.com/magazines/another-escape-21.html

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Magazine

B IS AN AD-LESS MONTHLY PUBLICATION THAT INTRODUCES
ONE WELL-BALANCED BRAND UNEARTHED FROM AROUND
THE GLOBE IN EACH ISSUE. BETWEEN ITS COVERS,
B NOT ONLY SHARES UNTOLD STORIES BEHIND THE BRAND
BUT ALSO ITS SENTIMENT AND CULTURE THAT ANY READERS
INTERESTED IN BRAND MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT CAN
LEAF THROUGH WITH EASE.

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B is an independent, ad-free publication produced in South Korea. In each issue, it offers insightful stories on a specific brand, but it abides by a strict editorial policy and receives no financial compensation in return.

B dedicates each issue to the story of one specific brand, which is one of the well-balanced brands that JOH. discovers from around the world based on four standards: beauty, practicality, price, and philosophy. And each issue is packed with B’s unique insights and in-depth analysis. B will continue to search brands that it pursues to introduce cover-to-cover, such as Swiss recycled bag manufacturer Freitag and Japanese camping gear maker Snow Peak.

B attempts to discover truly good brands from today’s market where countless brand-named products are overflowing. B pursues its quest for true value of a printed medium by becoming a magazine that would be worth possessing, not affected by advertisements since it receives no financial support from the brand, and maintains a unique and independent perspective which is increasingly disappearing due to overflowing information mingled among different media outlets.

B’s keywords are brand, balance, and perspective. It receives no advertising profits or financial support from the brands it introduces. B is published in Korean and English and released both at home in Korea and overseas.

B attempts to look from the consumers’ perspective as it features a whole story in one book of how they first learn about a brand and then grow deeply attached to it. To this end, the magazine has adopted a documentary format to deliver its idea that the genuine way of gaining insights in branding and marketing is not reading jargon-ridden textbooks on brand marketing, but directly seeing and feeling what is going on in the field.

we believe a good brand can’t rely only a single factor, whether that’s its price point, its usefulness, its design, or its ethos. All these factors must combine to form a balance that fits the brand. What we want to convey is that each brand has its own way of achieving that balance—just as every beautiful person has their own balance of different charms.

editor-in-chief Eunsung Park

Reference:

https://maekan.com/article/magazine-b-a-laser-focused-independent-magazine-from-korea/

http://magazine-b.com/en/about/magazineb/

Kinfolk

Kinfolk is an independent slow lifestyle magazine, published by Ouur. It is based in Portland.

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 who contribute to Kinfolk are drawn from a largely international pool of creative people, often featuring more than 50 individual contributors an issue.

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 who 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.

In addition to its print publication, Kinfolk organizes monthly “community gathering” events that take place around the world, each based on a seasonal theme such as flower potlucks, butcher’s block parties and campfire cooking. These events take place concurrently and aim to unite the global community of Kinfolk readers while also offering practical advice and lessons. The company also produces international food-based workshops, cookbooks and a short film series.

In addition to its American readership, Kinfolk also has a growing international following. The magazine is published in Chinese and Korean, and the company launched a Japanese edition in 2013

On the one hand, Kinfolk is a lifestyle magazine founded by a small circle of friends that is designed to help you live your best life, full of warm pie and soft colors. On the other hand, Kinfolk is a constipated manual for minimalist try-hards and mushroom foragers, full of photographs of obsessively staged gatherings and didactic articles on “simple living.”

Unlike reading a newspaper, reading a lifestyle magazine is more an aesthetic than functional choice, a way of pursuing higher, or at least less immediate, interests like art, fashion, food, and good manners. A magazine’s editors lead this aspirational pursuit and the readers never quite catch up. Even the image of a grand castle, Cave’s home, on the cover of The Gentleman’s Magazine seemed to hint at the rarified knowledge contained within. If you read this, you could live here.

The Last Lifestyle Magazine

Reference:

https://gawker.com/wood-citrus-lattes-feet-twine-repeat-the-kinfolk-1693115156

https://www.racked.com/2016/3/14/11173148/kinfolk-lifestyle-magazines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinfolk_(magazine)

CEREAL Magazine

CEREAL

Cereal is an independent biannual travel and style magazine based in Bath, United Kingdom. Each issue focuses on a select few destinations, with stories and interviews on design, art and style.

Cereal was founded by Rosa Park (editor-in-chief) and Rich Stapleton (creative director) in 2012 as a quarterly publication. With Volume 9 (2015), Cereal changed to a biannual release schedule, publishing in March and September every year.

Alongside the magazine, Cereal publishes regular digital stories on their website, update online city guides, publish physical city guide books, and publish a number of other books.

Cereal is a travel and style magazine aimed primarily at a global audience of design conscious professionals. Each destination the magazine features is visited and personally vetted by the founders Rosa and Rich. All photography and writing is commissioned exclusively by them from a pool of freelance writers and photographers. Alongside destination features, interviews and conversations with designers, architects, artists, and chefs are printed, as well as original essays, short stories and poems.

Cereal is more like a beautifully curated book than a magazine, and I’m sure it will not be founded in recycling bin anytime soon. It’s a magazine to keep, share and refer back to.

Volume 10 introduced a series of essays, short stories and poems as a pull-out literary supplement called Weekend, which published writing around a theme, such as Ego or Taste. Since Volume 13, the essays and poems were incorporated into the magazine itself.

Volume 15 (Spring Summer 2018) introduced the format of presenting a unifying theme for the issue as a whole, which, in this instance, was sustainability. This angle ran through many of the interviews, as well as the choice of features and essays. For Volume 16, the theme was collecting. Designers were interviewed on their personal collections, and essays discussed collecting stones, memories and stories.

There have been numerous alterations to the design and layout of the magazine volume to volume, the most conspicuous perhaps being the adoption of the grey front cover from Volume 13 onward. The most recent change was a full redesign of the layout of the magazine by Vancouver-based Studio Faculty for Volume 16.

In 2016 Cereal launched their City Guide series, with physical guide book editions for London, Paris, New York, Los Angelas, and Copenhagen. Each guide features a selection of places to stay, eat, drink and visit within the city, illustrated by original photography.

In October 2018, new editions for London, Paris and New York were published by Abrams with an expanded 200 page format and new design. An extended selection of recommendations, essays, interviews with notable locals of the city, a weekend itinerary, and souvenir suggestions were also included.

Digital city guides are also available on their website

Reference

https://www.anglepoise.com/news/in-conversation-with-cereal-magazine

Cereal magazine steps up

https://www.folkclothing.com/blogs/journal/77177283-folk-interviews-rosa-park-rich-stapleton-of-cereal-magazine

Redesigning Cereal Magazine

Cereal Magazine: brimming with poetically curated content

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