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‘Future Impact 3: Design Nation’: ‘Future Impact 3: Design Nation’ is an exhibition produced by Design Singapore Council, which enjoyed its first outing at the most recent edition of Milan Design Week. Curated by Tony Chambers, Maria Cristina Didero and Hunn Wai, it featured both established Singaporean names and rising stars. The event – and Monocle – also brought a host of international talent through the door to discuss the future of design.

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★	18 Apr 2025 28 min	‘Future Impact 3: Design Nation’ ‘Future Impact 3: Design Nation’ is an exhibition produced by Design Singapore Council, which enjoyed its first outing at the most recent edition of Milan Design Week. Curated by Tony Chambers, Maria Cristina Didero and Hunn Wai, it featured both established Singaporean names and rising stars. The event – and Monocle – also brought a host of international talent through the door to discuss the future of design.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	17 Apr 2025 7 min	Expo 2025 Osaka: The USA Pavilion Trey Trahan, the lead architect for the USA Pavilion, discusses the structure on show as part of Expo 2025 Osaka.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	16 Apr 2025 27 min	‘The Sculptor of Ultima Thule’ ‘The Sculptor of Ultima Thule’ is an exhibition celebrating the 110th anniversary of Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala’s birth. Co-produced by the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, the Tapio Wirkkala Rut Bryk Foundation and Blue Sheep, it features more than 300 of Wirkkala’s works. It is also headlined by the exhibition’s namesake collection, created in partnership with Finnish glassware specialist Iittala. We’re joined by Petra Wirkkala, Janni Vepsäläinen and Tsuchida Takahiro to discuss Wirrkala’s legacy in Finland and Japan.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
705	15 Apr 2025 30 min	Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2025 – Part 2 More conversations from this year’s edition of the fair. We hear from multidisciplinary maker Omer Arbel and visit the cavernous design gallery Nilufar Depot. Plus: a continents-spanning conversation with researcher Wong Eng Geng and Nifemi Marcus-Bello.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	10 Apr 2025 7 min	Six N Five At Milan Design Week, Argentine digital designer Six N Five (Ezequiel Pini) discusses his move into the material realm via a collaboration with the Italian furniture brand Poltrona Frau.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
704	8 Apr 2025 29 min	Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2025 – Part 1 The team report from the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan, with interviews from architect David Rockwell, the CEO of Italian manufacturer Artemide and the design duo behind the studio Formafantasma.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	3 Apr 2025 9 min	Finding relief Architect Hugh Broughton and the artist James Lambert discuss their designs at a newly upgraded public facility on the Victoria Embankment in London. Monocle’s Francesca Gilks reports.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
703	1 Apr 2025 34 min	‘Living Modernity’, ‘Solar Biennale’ and ‘Splash!’ We explore experimental ways of living thanks to a new exhibition in Tokyo and we imagine sunnier futures at the ‘Solar Biennale’ in Switzerland. Finally, a cooling dip in the pool as we visit ‘Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style’ at London’s Design Museum.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	27 Mar 2025 7 min	My First Sony Cassette recorder We take a trip down memory lane to find out why this toy offers a glimpse into a much bigger moment in design history.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
702	25 Mar 2025 28 min	Powerhouse, Tej Chauhan and a ‘Konfekt’ preview We visit a floating office in Rotterdam and meet industrial designer Tej Chauhan in Helsinki. Plus, a preview of some of the design stories in the latest issue of ‘Konfekt’ magazine.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	20 Mar 2025 8 min	Orla Kiely: ‘A Life in Pattern’ The National Design & Craft Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland, celebrates the bold patterns and organic shapes found in Orla Kiely’s work in its latest exhibition.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
701	18 Mar 2025 31 min	Vince Frost, ‘The Craft of Carpentry’, Mirkku Kullberg Graphic designer Vince Frost reflects on his decades in practice; plus Japan’s carpentry culture is front and centre at a new exhibition in London. We then meet Mirkku Kullberg, CEO of Swedish rug company Kasthall.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	13 Mar 2025 3 min	From fashion to furniture Monocle’s design editor Nic Monisse reflects on the blurred boundaries between the design and fashion industries.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
700	11 Mar 2025 31 min	Matter and Shape, ‘Brutalist Japan’, Make Play Highlights from the second edition of Parisian design salon Matter and Shape. Then: we learn about brutalism in Japan. Plus: we visit Young V&A in London to meet designer Charlie Boyden.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	6 Mar 2025 10 min	‘About Consuming Books: The Nijhof & Lee Collection’ The current exhibition at the London Centre for Book Arts explores the legacy of the Dutch design bookshop, Nijhof & Lee.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

Design / Podcast

Monocle on Design

Latest episode

Latest episodes

‘Future Impact 3: Design Nation’

Expo 2025 Osaka: The USA Pavilion

‘The Sculptor of Ultima Thule’

Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2025 – Part 2

Six N Five

Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2025 – Part 1

Finding relief

‘Living Modernity’, ‘Solar Biennale’ and ‘Splash!’

My First Sony Cassette recorder

Powerhouse, Tej Chauhan and a ‘Konfekt’ preview

Orla Kiely: ‘A Life in Pattern’

Vince Frost, ‘The Craft of Carpentry’, Mirkku Kullberg

From fashion to furniture

Matter and Shape, ‘Brutalist Japan’, Make Play

‘About Consuming Books: The Nijhof & Lee Collection’