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Death watch
The Dutch design academy at Eindhoven, in collaboration with Dela - one of the Netherland's biggest funeral insurers - are rethinking the way we'll be remembered in a world where religion has taken a…
Craft Punk – Milan
This year Design Miami staged an installation at Salone del Mobile that created a public atelier for emerging designers to make and show their work. Monocle's design editor Sarah Balmond looks at CRAFT PUNK's…
New designs on diplomacy
Post September 11 every embassy was built as a bunker ready to repel all comers. But now, from Kathmandu to Harare, architects are reinventing the mission as a national calling card. Robert Bound reports.
Tomorrowland
For the past three decades Japanese fashion brand Tomorrowland has successfully navigated a fiercely competitive and highly sophisticated retail market. Under the helm of Hiroyuki Sasaki it made its name and built its reputation…
Energinet
Danish Architects Hvidt & Mølgaard have created a state-of-the-art, energy efficient headquarters for Energinet.dk. Challenged with reducing the total energy consumption by 25-30% the architects worked with high performance materials and new technology to…
Genbei Yamaguchi
A decade ago it was rare to see a pair of Tokyo teenage boys out shopping in kimonos. But attitudes to national identity are starting to change. Genbei Yamaguchi's new collection for United Arrows…
Albam Clothing
Albam, a British fashion start-up, is keeping costs down without turning to factories in China for help. Founded by entrepreneurial fashion outsiders James Shaw and Alastair Rae, the duo's first shop is a breezy,…
