I’m in denial about it being autumn; I miss the long sunny evenings of summer and Christmas is not quite near enough to get excited about yet. So when I picked up a copy of frankie, an Australian independent magazine, and found that it was infused with the down under excitement of ‘summer is just…
Author: Kirstin
Indie Mags: Ladybeard
From the moment I opened Ladybeard magazine, I knew it was a magazine I wanted to read: We platform the voices you won’t hear in women’s magazines; voices of the people who live any and every deviation from the straight, white, cis, able-bodied ‘ideal’. Working in themed issues, we open up old topics to vital…
Indie Mags: Flow Magazine
Flow magazine dedicates themselves to paper. They publish a magazine eight times a year and also create yearly calendars, diaries and special books about specific topics like mindfulness.
Weekend by the Sea
At the beginning of September, my fiancé Dan and I went to Brighton for the weekend, ostensibly to celebrate dating for 4 years, but with our eyes on a whole lot of great places to visit and eat delicious food at, regardless of the special occasion. First stop was the mecca of Magazine Brighton. I picked up the latest issues of…
Indie Mags: Drift in Stockholm
Drift magazine is a fascinating look at coffee culture around the world. Each volume focuses on a different city and their distinct coffee traditions. New York, Tokyo, Havana and Stockholm have been featured so far. Volume 4: Stockholm found its way to me through my Stack subscription over the summer. Drift: Coffee Culture in Cities…
Indie Mags: Peeps Magazine
Issue 2 of Peeps Magazine Crossing Thresholds, true to its name, explores people across the world; their outlooks; their lives. I loved reading a magazine where the loss of work for prostitutes in Paris shares editorial space with Maori beliefs that rivers are legal people with their own rights. Although such varying cultures, both share themes of…
Indie Mags: LOST iN Amsterdam
Last month I was in Amsterdam (read all about it) and while wandering the leafy, canal-lined streets we came across a beautiful little shop called Property Of... selling Scandinavian bike bags and independent guides to popular European and US cities. I'm a big fan of getting the local guide to a city, and even though we…
Exploring Amsterdam
At the beginning of the month we spent a weekend exploring Amsterdam, something I'd planned as a surprise birthday present for Dan. Neither of us had been to Amsterdam before and the city far surpassed our expectations. We cycled leisurely around the beautiful canals and neighbourhoods on hired Dutch bicycles feeling very like locals, but…
Indie Mags: Amuseum
The front cover of Amuseum tells you all you need to know about this magazine. Archimedes dressed as a transvestite? It’s funny, it’s random and it’s completely off the wall. Just like everything inside. Amuseum issue 3 is the June offering from Stack. It covers a diverse variety of topics, from the Kibbo Kift movement…
Indie Mags: Print Isn’t Dead
When the lovely people at Stack popped Print Isn't Dead Element 004 through my door, it took me ages to work out what the name of this colourful design magazine was. Every time I saw 'Print Isn't Dead' I assumed it was a slogan, y'know, like all us independent magazine lovers hashtag our social media…