This week Coverjunkie asked Francesco Franchi, Design Director for awardwinning IL Magazine (a supplement from Italian Il Sole 24 ORE) about his favorite covers:

Here Francesco's third favorite cover (out of 3) he designed himself:
IL 22
September 2010: "Loggeria Italia"
We really like Charles Fréger's work. Here it's a cover with an image from his Penitente series, made in Sevilla in 2004 during the Semana Santa.
We use these images to tell about Italian lodges, Masonic lodges and other organizations.

About Francesco Franchi
Francesco has been a design director at IL from 2008 till now. Before that he designed at the well known Leftloft designagency. He and his teams won numerous publication design honors and awards, read all about it on Francesco's Linkedin page

Finally, a sweet tip:
"I always check thisisdisplay.org, a curated collection of important graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera. Nice website layout."