Nest Magazine calls it quits
Nest, one of my all-time favorite magazines, is no longer. The news was publicized on various blogs and industry web sites a few weeks ago, but today I found out the old fashioned way -- an editorial note at the beginning of the latest issue.
There's something incredibly sad when a publication you had grown to admire, enjoyed reading, and (most importantly) looked forward to receiving, goes belly up. I experienced the same 'goodbye' over a year ago with DoubleTake, a non-profit publication of original photography, creative writing, and poetry. I miss DoubleTake, and still look through early editions for creative inspiration. But while others could step in to fill the DoubleTake void, Nest was an irreplaceable creative maverick.
Dubbed a "Quarterly of Interiors," Nest landed in your mailbox only four times a year. Or put another way, whenever the seasons changed. Every issue was unique, one-of-a-kind, and unlike the rest of the magazine industry, never used templates or attempted to compartmentalize their content into regular features or sections. If anything, Nest spent more time maintaining their unpredictability and testing the patience of their readership than any magazine on the market.
At its core, Nest was an interior design magazine, with the operative word being "interior." Nest didn't feature modern masterworks of interior harmony, or regurgitate trendy lofts brimming with Eames, Knoll, Nelson, and all the rest, but focused on the interior spaces people called home. In other words, the areas they inhabited, and used as a canvas to express their individuality. Nest avoided the utopian and delved head-first into the crusty, muddled, and often times ugly world of every day life inside four walls with such bravado and disdain for the commonplace that every issue felt like a strange, exciting new world unfolding in your hands.
The good news is that you can still pick up the latest issue of Nest, which I would recommend to anyone in graphic design or with an interest in interior design / architecture, while they last.
