License to talk about IL

License to talk about IL

Talk at MagCulture.com about the NYT Magazine’s redesign led to the flickr page of Francesco Franchi, art director of IL, the aesthetic appeal of which does a lot to counteract  the magazine’s name (“Intelligence in Lifestyle”) and identity as a men’s insert in a financial newspaper. I can’t read Italian so this is far from an endorsement. It’s just, as a childhood friend used to say, “for pretties.”