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About - Mental Movement Magazine. Women’s lifestyle sector on the rise – Marketing Week. Condé Nast’s Glamour maintained its number one spot with net circulation of 526,216 – flat over the year but up 2.1% in the past six months – a marked improvement on the decline it reported in the last set of ABC results.

Women’s lifestyle sector on the rise – Marketing Week

The magazine market isn’t dead, it’s different. Firstly, let me firmly state that I heart magazines.

The magazine market isn’t dead, it’s different

I really love them. I’m also very fond of newspapers but mags: those luscious, heavy, beautiful, glossy works of genius are what makes my professional heart swell with happiness. Print vs. Digital: How We Really Consume Our Magazines – 2018 edition. Freeport Press promoted a 10-question survey (identitcal to the 2017 edition) to a variety of magazine readers in the North America – demographics chart below.

Print vs. Digital: How We Really Consume Our Magazines – 2018 edition

The survey was open for 3 days in September 2018 and generated 1226 responses. 1141 responses were solicited through Survey Monkey. The rest were in response to a promotion to the Freeport Press Newsletter audience. When it comes to our magazines, we read more, read longer and subscribe more often to print than digital. While publishers talk about embracing the digital future of their publications, ordinary people like you and me still prefer to read a good glossy. These findings come out of an informal survey we conducted of over a thousand North American consumers. About Lifehack & Leon Ho.

About Us. Apartment Therapy is a home and decor site, designed to inspire anyone to live a more beautiful and happy life at home.

About Us

Launched in 2001 by interior designer Maxwell Ryan (nicknamed "the apartment therapist") as a weekly newsletter for clients, Apartment Therapy officially became a media company in 2004 and has since grown to become a leading source of design inspiration and tips for real people looking for real-life decor solutions through a fascinating look into how people from around the country live at home. Through a combination of expert advice, shopping guides, and DIY how-to's, it's our mission to show how people are making their own homes more beautiful with unstaged and true-to-life tips and photos for range of budgets. Every day we feature a new House Tour – submitted directly by our readers showing real imagery (i.e. without professional styling and photography) of homes of all sizes and styles built on budgets big and small, to show the way we live today.

Minimalism Is Not a Radical Lifestyle. When some people meet me, and they feel compelled to talk about minimalism, they think I live a radical lifestyle.

Minimalism Is Not a Radical Lifestyle

Introducing Simplify Magazine. Simplify Magazine. The rise of the conscious consumer: why businesses need to open up. The general election is a matter of weeks away and every vote is to play for.

The rise of the conscious consumer: why businesses need to open up

But what if we could vote every day? In some ways we already do: every time we spend our cash we are making an active choice about the companies we support and the practices we endorse. Today, when corporations can be more influential than entire states, where we put our pounds is where the power lies. The problem is the world of business can be opaque and supply chains are murky, so it is difficult to confidently make an informed choice.

Consider this: the retail manufacturing industry is the second most polluting industry on earth, second only to oil. However, the tide is turning. This is a growing tribe: a third of UK consumers claim to be very concerned about issues regarding the origin of products. Greenwashing and a token CSR [corporate social responsibility] marketing campaign are no longer enough. I believe technology is the key to dealing with the challenges created by consumerism. What is ‘Conscious Consumerism’? Who is a ‘Conscious Consumer’? The Ultimate List of Millennial Characteristics. Is Minimalism a Trend for the Rich? - Smallish. I recently read an article entitled “Minimalism: another boring product wealthy people can buy.”

Is Minimalism a Trend for the Rich? - Smallish

The article accused minimalism of being merely a trend for the rich—a status symbol to flaunt on social media. The minimalist trend is now so popular that widespread annoyance toward the topic is growing. If you search “minimalist” on Instagram, your phone will explode with gorgeously staged rooms featuring the least amount of furniture possible. You’ll see plants and white walls and even pictures of super cool-looking people wearing expensive clothes. Why Millennials are Choosing Experiences Over Things. The world and the people in it have been evolving for millions of years.

Why Millennials are Choosing Experiences Over Things

We were hunters and gatherers. Then, the agricultural revolution made us farmers. When the industrial revolution unfolded, we became factory workers. In the age of information, we've become employees at offices. Millennials and the Minimalism Trend. You might not have realised it, but a new trend has taken over our design and lifestyle culture.

Millennials and the Minimalism Trend

It’s in our clothes, our coffee shop and bar interiors, and modern website designs. The minimalism aesthetic (characterised by streamlined design, usually in black and white, with clean lines, industrial materials, and, at times, a bit of a ‘clinical’ appearance) is permeating modern design. Millennials Go Minimal: The Decluttering Lifestyle Trend That Is Taking Over. Source: Cladwell.

Millennials Go Minimal: The Decluttering Lifestyle Trend That Is Taking Over

Photo credit: Dylan Engels. Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, brought minimalism to the mainstream. Although it is not a new concept, the minimalist lifestyle is trending across the United States. What Is Minimalism? So what is this minimalism thing? It’s quite simple: to be a minimalist you must live with less than 100 things, you can’t own a car or a home or a television, you can’t have a career, you must live in exotic hard-to-pronounce places all over the world, you must start a blog, you can’t have children, and you must be a young white male from a privileged background.