Who Killed I.D.? Julie Lasky Tells All

We can think of no better person than Julie Lasky, who now helms the smart n’ sustainable Change Observer, to demystify the final years of I.D., the 55-year-old design magazine that was folded last month by increasingly irrational F+W Media. We encourage you to steel yourself before reading “I.D.’s Executioners,” which details her Sisyphean six-year tenure as editor-in-chief of I.D. and as an employee of “a company whose institutional memory is as long as my thumb.”