As one of Mexico’s leading advertising directors, Raúl Cardós took a leap into the unknown when he decided to strike out on his own. Luckily his efforts have paid dividends.
With corporate brands more powerful than country brands, there’s a lot of work out there for agencies keen to rethink a nation’s identity. Over the next 40-plus pages *Monocle* looks at the construct of countries.
Innocean, a global advertising agency, understands the importance of a well-designed HQ to impress clients and motivate staff. Monocle takes a look at its recent facelift, which combines Korean tradition and mid-century…
Inside the European Space Agency complex on the Dutch coast, engineers and scientists are wrestling with big ideas. But for them, where we come from and whether we are alone are not philosophical questions: they are the…
Savoir Faire is a creative agency that, with its own in-house record label Bromance, takes a holistic approach to pushing the best in French electronic music and pop. It’s an outlook that suggests the music industry is…
As one of the world’s most influential creative agencies, Art Partner represents a select group of the fashion industry’s leading image-makers. We stopped by to find out what it takes for a photographer to make the cut.
From its base in Austria’s capital, the International Atomic Energy Agency keeps a weather eye on global nuclear risks. According to its head, Yukiya Amano, the outlook has rarely been stormier.
John Jay helped make the Portland-based advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy a global creative force through work for Nike, Uniqlo and others. With his own spin-off, GX, he plans even bigger coups – by starting small.
Currently, anyone living in the Russian far east and wanting to fly to the US has to travel three-quarters of the way round the world, across Eurasia and the Atlantic. But a Russian airline is planning to launch the first…
NATO notices the Cold War is over and devises a new navy strategy. The US Army eyes the phone app market and in Ukraine, Russia is allowed to train its jet pilots.
A wealth of creative agencies, architectural practices and ambitious urban landscaping projects are seeing South Korea lead the way in building modern, liveable cities.