Design & Decoration

Domino (1-year)

Who Reads Domino?
Domino is a style magazine that focuses on life at home. Think of it as a search engine for great decor. It is written for the busy, fashion-conscious, discerning woman, who is passionate about living with style but may lack the time or expertise to navigate the decorating terrain. Domino is there to help.

Domino's editors, with great taste, cull the market so that its readers can spend more time enjoying their lives and their homes. Through the beautiful interiors they photograph and feature, they reveal the secrets of how rooms are actually put together. Domino's editors have the know-how, the access, the resources, the buying information and the knowledge of decorating and lifestyle trends. They help readers connect the dots between inspiration and realization, so that readers can make their own homes work better for their own lives. Great style, as Domino's readers know, is all about personal choice. Domino liberates and inspires its readers to be able to make those personal choices.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Destination: Every issue features a shopping guide to a particular city, highlighting the best neighborhoods, the most interesting places to eat and stay, and the best boutiques.
• Scouting: The scouting section features the things that Domino's editors have discovered and are obsessing over, the best new products, designers, plus quick solutions and easy ideas from decorators.
• Decorating: The decorating section takes the mystery out of decorating and shows readers how to put the pieces together. This eclectic mix of articles runs the gamut: how-tos and tips from designers; answers to décor dilemmas from an on-staff industry leader. Regular features include: Guides to the best furniture options at different price points; Perfect Pairs, in which we take two pieces of furniture (i.e. bed and bedside table) and scour the market for the ones that best go together; Paint Palettes, shown in rooms so that you can see how it will actually look; and Outfit to Room, in which we translate a stylish outfit into an equally stylish room.
• Entertaining: The typical Domino reader is busy and doesn't always know when she will find the time to do the entertaining she would like to do. The solutions Domino offers are meant to help her host a meal or a party like she has nothing but time, and a full staff to boot. Domino features seasonally inspired recipes and party throwing ideas that are as glamorous as they are easy. The result is inspiration for the host with a surplus of taste but not a surplus of time.
• Nesting: Nesting offers everything you need to make the time you spend at home more enjoyable, relaxing and efficient. Whether it's beauty and spa treatments you can enjoy in your own bathroom, organizational ideas for the black hole that has become your closet, or a rigorous test drive of kitchen appliances, these articles help you build a sound foundation for your household and enjoy the home you have already created.
• Renovating: Domino's Renovator's Notebook aims to simplify the process of "home improvement"--and even to make it pleasurable--with stylish and practical ideas for transforming a space. This section features room makeovers, tips for dealing with contractors, information on how much work should cost, as well as truly doable DIY projects, and reports on the best new trends (plus detailed info about how to make them work).
• Giving Back: Everybody wants to do good, but how? Each month the editors find ways to help Domino's readers clear their karma by contributing to stylish and substantial causes, all while shopping, having fun, or clearing clutter from their homes.
• Features: Each issue features several stunning interiors, large and small, urban and suburban, from across the country. Through text and photographs, Domino reveals both the spaces themselves and the ways in which people live in those spaces. In each article the reader not only enjoys a voyeuristic walk through someone else's home, but also gets a mother lode of important information--how to achieve a look, where to find specific components, and what logic defines particular design choices. The style and design-ethic employed in each case may differ, but all of the homes it features approach design in an innovative, exciting and personal way. Most importantly these are real homes, living spaces, not show-rooms. Though Domino often features the homes of decorators and celebrities (as well as those of design-minded lay-people), its articles are about real people who live real lives, and who have designed their homes to make those lives more effective and more beautiful.

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Contributors:
Domino's contributors are people who have made names for themselves as designers, trendsetters and style-makers, stars of their fields who generously lend their expertise and skill to Domino each month: Marian McEvoy, doyenne of the shelter magazine world; Rita Konig, author and tastemaker; Jennifer Rubell, cookbook writer and consummate hostess. And behind it all are the people who have shaped Domino from the beginning: Founding Editor in chief Deborah Needleman, Creative Director Sara Ruffin Costello, and Style Director Dara Caponigro, the style gurus who set the tone for every issue, and whose impeccable taste and clear vision have set a new standard in the field.

Magazine Layout:
Domino's unusual approach to photography creates the beautiful alchemy of real life and fantasy that makes the magazine so enticing. Natural light, intimate angles and styling that celebrate the imperfections of life being lived set Domino interiors apart; there's always a sense that someone just left the room. The magazine's smart, sophisticated design offers several points of entry, so text feels conversational and entertaining. Visually and via text, Domino relates to readers in a close, fast, honest way.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
The shelter magazine industry has traditionally reserved design as the territory of the elite. Domino shatters this premise, opening up that universe and showing readers how to navigate the terrain. We do this by featuring stylish yet affordable options, rooms that always have a characteristic mix of high and low furnishings, and by making a commitment to offer sustainable and eco-friendly design options. Its whole ethos is different. Unlike other design magazines, Domino focuses both on beautiful spaces and the people who live in those spaces. Down-to-earth, witty and easy to relate to, Domino makes readers part of the party, rather than onlookers. Advice is offered as options, never as imperatives. Readers always feel welcome, energized and taken care of, never burdened.

Awards:
The magazine industry has recognized Domino's excellence since its start. When the magazine was launched in 2006, it swept all the major new-magazine awards. Advertising Age and Media Industry Newsletter called it launch of the year, and Adweek called it start up of the year. More recently, Domino was nominated for two prestigious National Magazine Awards by the American Society of Magazine editors.

Domino has also been recognized for its commitment to good works. The "Domino design project" (which transformed 40 apartments in the South Bronx into beautiful homes for women and their families living with HIV/AIDS) won "Community Involvement Program of the Year" at the Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

Domino magazine is the guide to living with style for young, busy, fashion-conscious women. With a focus on home decorating, domino acts as design consultant, personal shopper and friend, offering inspiration, information and innovative ideas. Perfect for both renters and home-owners, each issue is packed with tips, shopping information and easy DIY tricks to help readers create the home and lifestyle of their dreams, on any budget.

Dwell

Dwell is the first and only magazine to explore both the interiors and the exteriors of modern home design in a stylish, yet accessible way. With focus on a new modernistic approach to home design that offers identity, creativity and harmony.

Good Housekeeping (1-year)

Good Housekeeping magazine—together with the Good Housekeeping Institute and the Good Housekeeping Seal—is an American icon of consumer protection and quality assurance. Every issue delivers a unique mix of independent investigation and trusted reporting, along with inspirational and personal stories. The magazine's rich tradition embodies a commitment to the modern home and to a woman's quality of life.

Articles of interest to homemakers, dealing with topics that include food, fashion, decorating, beauty, diet, health, fiction, current affairs.

Real Simple (1-year)

Real Simple is the new magazine for the way you want to live today. You'll find actionable solutions to streamline the ways you manage your life. Systems for reducing clutter, saving time, and reducing stress. Inspiring ideas about home, food, money, clothes, health, work, family, and holidays.

House Beautiful (1-year)

Homeowners looking for design ideas will appreciate the wide selection of styles and treatments offered in House Beautiful. From the latest in simplistic style, new takes on Bauhaus-influenced furniture, lighter approaches to Victorian architecture, and a return to the gaudy patterns of 18th-century French room treatments, House Beautiful tends toward no particular school of design. It offers the best of a wide range of ideas, trusting the readers to make decisions of taste on their own. That said, one theme tends to run throughout. People looking for low-cost designs for small homes with simple architecture are more likely to find a sense of direction in these pages than those people of mightier means looking for the full-treatment solutions. --Brian Trinen

Satisfy your passion for stylish living and practical ideas for updating every room in your home. Find great ways to use today's best furnishings and accessories within our pages.

Presents articles on architecture, decorating, home furnishings, design, and practical home planning & maintenance. Also covers travel, food, entertainment and gardening.

Better Homes and Gardens (1-year)

Better Homes and Gardens is the vibrant, down-to-earth guide for the woman who is passionate about her home and garden and all that they encompass.

For home and family-oriented people; features decorating, repair, health, gardening, travel, entertainment and product news.

Architectural Digest (1-year)

Editorial Reviews

Who Reads Architectural Digest?
Architectural Digest is the world's leading design publication, with a total audience of nearly five million. Its readers are successful, sophisticated and well-read; they recognize and appreciate good design--whether it's found in a chair, a yacht or a house--and they expect to see spectacular photographs and informative features about extraordinary interiors and architecture along with well-written articles about home electronics, travel and automobile and jewelry design.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Whether highlighting an art-filled Manhattan townhouse, a modern dwelling in Japan or a California vineyard residence, each issue of Architectural Digest presents an arresting mix of interior design and architecture from the world's leading designers and architects. Regular columns include:

• AD Architecture: Highlighting projects by the foremost architects working today.
• AD Travels and AD Shopping: Noted designers take readers on a tour of their favorite shops and sources in cities around the globe.
• AD Electronica: The magazine's guide to new and interesting home electronics.
• Estates for Sale
• Great Design Under $100
• Discoveries By Designers: Presenting singular designer sources.

Each year, Architectural Digest publishes several special issues: Before & After, Designers' Own Homes, American Country Houses, Exotic Homes Around the World, and the Architecture Issue. Other special editions include Designer Secrets Revealed, Hollywood at Home and the Great Design Issue. The popular AD100 has become the definitive directory of the top 100 designers and architects working today.

Feature Articles: Every issue of Architectural Digest presents residential design around the globe. The stunning photographs give readers the opportunity to "walk through" a home, along with informative and entertaining feature interviews with designers, architects and homeowners. In addition to regular design features, there are profiles of fascinating people, such as Ted Turner; Steven Spielberg; Anjelica Huston; Lance Armstrong; Diane Keaton; Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones; Sting; and John Travolta and Kelly Preston. Several times a year, Architectural Digest publishes several special sections, including Hotels Around the World; AD Style, a collection of some of the most innovative design around today; and Motoring by Design, which highlights automotive innovations, concept cars and automobile collectors, like Nicola Bulgari of the legendary Italian jewelry firm.

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Contributors:
Architectural Digest contains the work of some of the finest writers and photographers working today. Contributing Writers include Paul Theroux, fiction, non-fiction and travel writer; Patricia Leigh Brown of theNew York Times; Gerald Clarke, biographer of Truman Capote and Judy Garland; Nancy Collins, author of Hard to Get: Fast Talk and Rude Questions Along the Interview Trail; architecture critic Joseph Giovannini; Judith Thurman, author of biographies of Colette and Isak Dinesen and featured writer for the New Yorker ; architecture writer Mildred F. Schmertz; writer and critic Amanda Vaill; and Pulitzer Prize-winner Susan Sheehan.

Among the Contributing Photographers are legendary photo journalist Harry Benson; Durston Saylor; Mary E. Nichols; Scott Frances; Derry Moore; Robert Reck; Peter Aaron; and Tony Soluri.

Magazine Layout
Architectural Digest takes readers inside some of the most extraordinary homes being created today with stunning photographs and well-written and informative articles.

Comparisons to Other Magazines
Architectural Digest is regarded as the only magazine that brings its readers exclusive international coverage of the best interior design, architecture, art and antiques--along with select stories on travel, jewelry design and luxury automobiles.

Advertising
Architectural Digest advertisers represent suppliers of the finest home design products available, from fabrics, furniture and carpets, kitchen and bath suppliers as well as luxury automobiles, fine jewelry and watches, electronics, art and antiques. The magazine's readers see, source and buy products directly from its pages.

The definitive design magazine, Architectural Digest takes you inside the world's most beautiful homes. With stunning photography and the best writers, it is the premier interior design magazine, featuring classic and contemporary styles. Your subscription includes the annual special issues: Before & After and Designers Own Homes.

Magazine showcases residences throughout the world. Presents outstanding residential interiores. It exemplifies fine art, antiques, architecture, and gardens.

Martha Stewart Living

Even if you will never make a "gourd candle" or a "Fortuny-inspired tablecloth," Martha Stewart Living can't be beat for its wealth of ideas concerning what Martha calls "good things." A crafter for craft's sake, and an obsessively organized woman (just look at her personal calendar, included in the first few pages), there is no concept or task that is too mundane for Martha. Like Martha herself, the magazine is impeccably organized--recipes and decorating instructions appear with full-color photos, each filed in their own sections of "cooking," "keeping," "crafts," "home," and "collecting." Learn to slip matched sets of bed linens into one of their pillowcases for easy and convenient shelving, make washcloth mitts, and coordinate mismatched towels with decorative ribbon. A whiz at flower arranging, dinner parties, card and sewing crafts, and decorating, Martha covers and conquers all areas of the home--plus weddings, baby showers, and holidays. --Daphne Durham

MARTHA STEWART LIVING is edited for discerning, quality-conscious readers. Its goal is to inform and inspire, to teach and demystify a broad range of subjects. Combining great style and useful information, the magazine celebrates the simple things people do in their everyday lives: gardening, entertaining, renovating, cooking, collecting and creating. From how-to information to pure inspiration, we encourage our readers to dream, then show them how to realize their dreams.

O at Home (1-year)

O at Home brings Oprah's spirit and point of view to the home. Shaped by the notion that your home is an extension of who you are, O at Home is the magazine written for real people with real design needs.

Elle Decor

Elle Decor presents top-of-the-line interiors with a younger, more sophisticated, and more whimsical air than most of its competitors. Nestled somewhere between pristine Architectural Digest and the Gen-X Wallpaper, Elle Decor is a colorful, imaginative, and reliable source for interior design ideas and trends. It's a little bit of fantasy for all tastes, with its visits to gardens, grand estates, city townhouses, tiny apartments, bungalows, and country homes. The magazine also synthesizes fashion and décor by including shots from runways, swatches of garment and decorating fabrics, and matching décor accessories. Correspondents travel the world to report on food, style, and interior design, and every issue includes a handy listing of its findings for globetrotting collectors and foodies. Aware that some of their readers are urban dwellers with limited space, the editors offer a monthly "Solutions" column with ideas from various designers on solving small-space challenges. --Gilia Angell

This magazine showcases the most advanced international fashion designers and their innovative ideas in architecture, home fashions and the decorative arts. It provides the latest information on the top interior designers and architects and offers a detailed shopping guide in each issue.

Articles and features on home decorating and interior design. Provides an international design showcase of home products and more. It combines sites and objects with useful information that encourages readers to use their own creativity.