Monocle is edited by Tyler Brule, who also founded Wallpaper magazine, I believe. And he used to have a great column in the FT Weekend.
I think it is pretty good, albeit the international jet set conventional wisdom about urbanity stuff is starting to get a bit tired. I must prefer the writing on the Afghan narcotecture, that breakaway province in Georgia (interesting to constrast our view of that v. Kosovo btw), etc.
A subscription is ridiculously expensive, far above the newsstand price of the magazine. They are claiming that you get access to some super-cool web site stuff, but I'm not sold on it.
It appears to have a hefty marketing budget as I always see this prominently displayed in Borders, etc.
I think it is pretty good, albeit the international jet set conventional wisdom about urbanity stuff is starting to get a bit tired. I must prefer the writing on the Afghan narcotecture, that breakaway province in Georgia (interesting to constrast our view of that v. Kosovo btw), etc.
A subscription is ridiculously expensive, far above the newsstand price of the magazine. They are claiming that you get access to some super-cool web site stuff, but I'm not sold on it.
It appears to have a hefty marketing budget as I always see this prominently displayed in Borders, etc.
