Culture / Film
Wicked way
Joy King started out as an accountant and ended up as a script writer for an adult film company. She tells Monocle about her love for conjuring up steamy scenes and her efforts to boost the image of her business.
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Edits / Film
Monocolumn
Friday 10 December
The 3D films coming at you
After almost 30 years and weeks of heavy-duty PR, press junkets, special trailer screenings and a soundtrack launch, Tron: Legacy – the sequel of the 1982 cutting-edge sci-fi Tron, is being released.
Culture / Media
Media Briefing
Galleries, art sales, interviews and the latest media products, both analogue and digital.
Business / Technology
Monocolumn
Wednesday 30 June
Trouble in app-land
At the recent conference where Apple debuted the new version of the iPhone, Steve Jobs devoted a few minutes of his speech to the workings of the App Store.
Design / Interior design
Monocolumn
Thursday 4 October
The office is not a playground
How often do you show up for a meeting in unfamiliar territory and are suddenly slammed with an extreme case of office envy?
Edits / Retail
Inventory No. 4
A new brew from Carlsberg and a must-have propelling pencil.
Affairs / Books
Bedroom renegade
Shobhaa De’s sex-filled novels and socialite lifestyle enthrall and infuriate Indians in equal measure. Her critics call her books trashy and newspaper columns inane, but supporters say she has done much to get a conserv…
Edits / Craft
Inventory No. 33
On this month’s shopping list: some nifty business card holders, a Paul Smith for Stelton kitchenware collection and a pair of rockabilly worker boots.
Culture / Music
Culture briefing
Books, films and music to make a date for.
Culture / Media
Media briefing
MySpace Music has pioneered interactive pop promos in which fans can upload themselves into music videos by chosen artists, including Florence and the Machine, Alicia Keys and 50 Cent. Fans will appear statically: pictures…
Affairs / Innovation
Field trip
The news is full of huge stimulus packages but some smaller initiatives have gone beneath the radar. In Japan, a scheme to encourage jobless young citizens to move from town to work the land could be a global template for…
Business / Industry
Push my Button
Everyone from parents to President Putin is attacking the vending and amusement machine industry. As the key players gathered in Europe to launch a counter attack, we were there to see if all their cherries would come up…
Culture / Graphic Design
Drawn together
The artists, animators and graphic designers Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas met in 1988. Although both are artists in their own right, they collaborate on almost all their projects. They formed their production company…
Culture / Arts
Culture Briefing
Monocle meets the founder of London's Museum of Everything as he prepares for his latest eccentric exhibition.
Culture / Entertainment
Culture briefing
The best of the latest films, books, music and art.
Culture / Entertainment
Novel Concept
Downloadable novels, written to be read on mobile phones, are the most remarkable success story in Japanese publishing. The fledgling industry is already worth ¥9 billion (€57m) a year – while sales of traditional books are…
Culture / Television
Dub be good to me
Across the world there are people who are literally being John Malkovich. Or Homer Simpson or Paris Hilton. And in their home nations the voices of dubbing artists are more famous than those of their Hollywood counterparts…