Kinfolk #53
227 x 295, 176 pages
Copenhagen, Denmark
Founder & Creative director: Nathan Williams
Editor-in-chief: John Clifford Burns
Art director: Mario Depicolzuane
Design director: Alex Hunting
Kinfolk has become so influential in the publishing world and beyond that it’s hard to imagine just how radical its minimal, proto-mindfulness, clean lines and clean living aesthetic was when it first appeared on shelves back in 2011.
This issue is the Seoul Special, featuring a glossy, ‘out of the K-culture mainstream’ guide to the city and extending the magazine's connection to Korea—Kinfolk have published a Korean edition for the past decade and also run a community space in the capital. But before that, the issue leads with snippets on the success of online food magazine Vittles, #BookshelfWealth, and the concept of inyeon (brought into the mainstream by Celine Song's film Past Lives), followed by features on Sudanese-Canadian poet Mustafa, ex-architect Paolo Turello and her horses, and designer Rym Beydoun of West African label Super Yaya.