About

A publication for people who notice things

DOHOMI is a field guide to living deliberately in an age of infinite supply — a publication about the quiet art of deciding what is worth it.

We started DOHOMI because we could not find it. There are magazines about beautiful houses, and magazines about being more productive, and magazines that will tell you which seventeen objects to buy to signal that you have read the other magazines. There was no publication simply about how we live, observed closely and, occasionally, laughed at.

So this is that. We are interested in the questions that fall between the categories — between design and technology, between work and meaning, between the room and the person standing in it. We are interested in attention, because it turns out to be the hinge on which everything else swings.

What we promise

To be serious without being solemn, and curious before we are conclusive. We will not tell you to wake at five, or to romanticise your commute, or to optimise anything. We will try, in each piece, to say one true thing you had half-noticed and never quite put into words — and to say it well enough that you stop for a moment and think about it for longer than you meant to.

The whole ambition, really: not to fill your time, but to be worth some of it.

How it is made

DOHOMI is edited and art-directed in-house. We publish one issue at a time and one weekly letter, and we would rather publish less, better. Words are the work of the editors. The photography you see is sourced from independent photographers and credited below.

Credits & rights

DOHOMI is set in Fraunces, Newsreader, Inter and IBM Plex Mono, all available under open licences via Google Fonts.

Photography throughout Issue 001 is the work of independent photographers, credited individually where their work appears. Copyright in each image remains with its original photographer; images are used as supplied, unaltered beyond cropping and a uniform editorial tone. The converging-line motifs and all vector artwork are original to DOHOMI.

If you are a photographer whose work appears here and would like fuller attribution or removal, write to us and we will see to it.

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