This made us laugh:

The New Yorker are evidently having a bit of fun with the problems they’ve had with their own notoriously unstable iPad app with this cover of last week’s issue (Feb 13th – 20th), harking back to the cover of the very first issue (starring their very own personified dandy, the esteemed Mr. Eustace Tilly) overlaid with a ‘loading’ graphic that will surely be familar to iOS users.

It turns out that this cover was actually submitted by New Yorker reader, Brett Culbert, a thirty-year-old landscape historian—whatever that is—and is one of the twelve Eustace Tilley Contest winners for 2012. The magazine modified Culbert’s original entry for this cover, but it’s the first time in the magazine’s 87 year history that a reader submission has ended up on the cover in one form or another, nonetheless.

(For the record, while we had a laugh about this cover, a quick poll of our offices reveals that wholly three quarters of us own a Kindle or iPad or both which we all unanimously enjoy using for reading alongside our unquenchable mag habits. Analog and digital, hand in hand… it’s the future we tells ya!)

Ever since the Spanish ‘everyday interiors’ mag Apartamento appeared on our shelves three or so years ago, we’ve noticed a wealth of imitators and spin-offs from across the publishing spectrum from design to fashion to gardening.

And for good reason, we reckon!

By eschewing the familar fodder of airbrushed and overstyled Bavarian hunting lodges and Miami infinity pool perfection, Apartamento created a wholly new kind of interiors magazine about space and the ways in which we we occupy it.

A brand new arrival on our shelves called Kinfolk, does much the same thing but for eating and entertaining… and frankly, we’re a little bit impressed.

Kinfolk is about the simple joys of togetherness and connecting over food rather than bringing the restaurant into the home. You won’t find a single mention of molecular gastronomy or even one perfect starched table cloth between these pages, but instead  you’ll find out about the simple pleasures of a plate of fresh fruit… of baking your own bread and chatting around a fire.

They say:

Every element of Kinfolk – the features, photography, and general aesthetics – are consistent with the way we feel entertaining should be: simple, uncomplicated, and less contrived. Kinfolk is the marriage of our appreciation for art and design and our love for spending time with family and friends.

The bad news? We had so much demand (and such limited supply!) for this title all but one of our copies has been sent out today to fulfill our online pre-orders.

The good news? To make things fair, we’re giving that one remaining copy away.

If you want to win, tell us in 30 words or less in the comments below why you deserve this one last copy of Kinfolk #2. It might be a haiku or a link to a YouTube video of you doing a Kinfolk –lusting interpretive dance, heck, whatever. Most impressive answer wins.