apartment therapy
I love a good shelter magazine. No airplane trip is complete without a visit to the newsstand for handful of my favorite interior design publications.
But print magazines are a dying breed. Remember Domino or Gourmet?
The good news is that some talented print expats are taking the lifestyle magazine online. And with an iPad, you can almost recreate the sensation of turning the pages!
I asked my friend and talented interior designer Marcelle Guilbeau to share some of her favorite online shelter magazines. Like the print versions, each online magazine has her own personality. Read Marcelle’s insightful comments and decide to which you want to “subscribe!”
Marcelle is also a big fan of two very hip blogs, and she reads ½ dozen or so print magazines as well.
BLOGS FIRST
First of all, as a designer, my main point of reference for design research is the blogs, Design*Sponge and apartment therapy.
Design*Sponge (www.designsponge.com)
A “lens” onto the gritty-vintage-do-it-yourself (DIY)-loving street style that’s all the rage. As in, “That’s funky. Do I like it?” More and more, the high-quality, high-end stuff is getting mixed in with the soulfully DIY.
DesignSponge
I’d highly recommend any design aficionado to check out Design*Sponge, as such a raw “lens” onto the dangerously new never seems to last (think of what’s happened to Dwell Magazine over the years). (more…)
