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
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