Design / Manufacturing
Make, Do, Change
With the maker movement gathering pace across the United States, we headed to the hilly, vibrant city of San Francisco to see where it all began.
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Design / Entrepreneurialism
Seoul Design
Long overshadowed by its neighbours, Seoul's creative community is flourishing as a new generation of designers, artists and entrepreneurs develop projects from product design to theatre spaces. Monocle's Gabriel Leigh…
Design / Innovation
Burel: Fabricating felt
We follow the fortunes of a Burel factory frozen in time in Portugal's Serra da Estrela mountains and rescued by local entrepreneurs João Tomás and Isabel Costa.
Design / Small Business
Monocolumn
Thursday 20 October
The resurgence in regional craft businesses
How right was Joni Mitchell when she sang you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
Design / Craft
Secure Influence
In a former jail, now home to the American College of Building Arts, students are learning traditional restoration techniques and preserving their city of Charleston, South Carolina, in the process. David Kaufman visits the…
Design / Craft
THE MONOCLE BRIEFINGS: Craftsmanship
Some cities come to mind straight away when you think of craft and design, but it's also true that untapped markets offer opportunities for entrepreneurship. We talk to designers and artisans in Shanghai, Bradford, Winter…
Edits / Retail
Handmade Retailers
Monocle finds out why children's books sometimes appeal to adults, learns how to boost employment in the regions with a Heidelberg printing press, and muses on the difference between art books and books about art. These are…
Design / Architecture
Make it better
Akershus University Hospital was created by CF Møller on the principle that good design makes you feel better. Well lit and easy to navigate, it is fitted with bespoke, locally crafted furniture, and state-of-the-art hea…
Edits / Travel
Eat, drink and be ferried
As part of our travel round-up in this issue we visit a restaurant in Madrid intent on promoting the unappreciated nuances of English food, a Chinese brewery educating locals in the delights of a glass of craft beer and a…
Affairs / Craft
Happy new world
As Monocle notches up two years, we take a look back at where we started and unveil some subtle tweaks to our brand for volume 03. We’ve always celebrated small businesses that manufacture at home and in an ever-more hom…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 11 May
Weekend agenda, 12/13 May
This weekend’s highlights include a new hotel in sunny Mykonos, a craft fair at London’s Saatchi gallery and a Montreal-inspired deli in New York.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 11 May
Weekend agenda, 12/13 May
This weekend’s highlights include a new hotel in sunny Mykonos, a craft fair at London’s Saatchi gallery and a Montreal-inspired deli in New York.
Edits / Travel
Monocolumn
Monday 14 May
Don’t call me a tourist
Does anyone really like being called a tourist? A traveller, a visitor or even a foreigner perhaps but never a tourist.
Design / Industry
Monocolumn
Friday 6 August
DIY and the death of design
The Industrial Designers Society of America’s annual International Conference brings some 600 designers, engineers and professional thinkers from around the world to Portland this weekend.
Design / Retail
Monocolumn
Saturday 25 December
Forecast 2011: Competing to be the fairest of them all
There were more than 70 design fairs or festivals held around the world in 2010. Given that they last on average five days, that means you could feasibly spend the entire year attending one.
Affairs / Books
Monocolumn
Sunday 12 June
Quality of life series – Turning a page in Faulkner country
Around one in five adults in Mississippi will not be able to read this column. The poorest state in America, Mississippi also has the country’s lowest literacy rates, a historic problem within its educational system that…
Business / Small Business
Monocolumn
Sunday 7 February
Fancy a brew?
In June 1998, Ichiri Fujiura headed to Baltimore, Maryland, with a handful of beers that he’d made in his kitchen.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 28 October
Weekend agenda, 29/30 October
Highlights of the weekend include Ai Weiwei in Taipei, a food fest in Sydney and design fair in Tokyo.
Culture / Music
Monocolumn
Friday 19 April
Smart moves
South Korean soft-power savant – Psy – is back. But repeating the success of his global dance craze "Gangnam Style" will require some forward-thinking.
Business / Small Business
Beer in mind
High taxes and rigid regulation have made it a tough sell for Japan’s artisan beer makers. But increasingly astute drinkers are starting to appreciate the superior quality product micro-breweries have to offer.