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Can canny design save Brazil’s forests and the people who live in them? We speak to São Paulo practice Aleph Zero, which thinks so. Plus: the Copenhagen architect’s office opening up to the public and tech for the year ahead.

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★	17 Jan 2019 3 min	Extra: Room to breathe: A new gallery and arts venue called The Shed is opening in New York in April. The hook? It has a movable shell that can be adapted to suit different events.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
379	15 Jan 2019 30 min	Architecture in the Amazon: Can canny design save Brazil’s forests and the people who live in them? We speak to São Paulo practice Aleph Zero, which thinks so. Plus: the Copenhagen architect’s office opening up to the public and tech for the year ahead.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	10 Jan 2019 5 min	Extra: Nobel intentions: Controversy tainted last year's Nobel prize and a visual rebrand was needed. But how do you create a good impression where a bad one lingers?	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
378	8 Jan 2019 30 min	Design: On the cards: Monocle’s creative director Richard Spencer Powell joins Josh Fehnert to discuss good, bold (and plain bad) business-card design. Plus, a peek into the studio of an Indonesian architecture practice that’s making waves.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
377	1 Jan 2019 30 min	Logo design : Can a simple logo convey a sophisticated message? We speak to Helsinki-based creative agency Kokoro & Moi and ask why fashion-brand logos are starting to look samey. Plus: we pay tribute to Chicago’s iconic skyline.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
376	25 Dec 2018 30 min	2018 in review : As the year ends, we explore some of the highlights from 2018, including California’s mid-century modernism, meeting Mexican architect Frida Escobedo and exploring Alison and Peter Smithson’s renovated Smithson Plaza.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	20 Dec 2018 6 min	Extra: Yukiwa – Japan’s silver service: Yukiwa, a 106-year-old family-run business is known throughout Japan for manufacturing elegant items (from napkin rings to a European sherbert trolley) that offer both restaurants and homes pieces with extra panache.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
375	18 Dec 2018 30 min	The Internet of Things: We ask how technology and connectedness are changing product design and transforming everything from homes to our cities. Guests include Kohler’s Mark Bickerstaffe, Ron Bakker of PLP Architecture and Sean Affleck of Make Architects.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	13 Dec 2018 6 min	Extra: Absent architecture: While the architects at Foster + Partners await the green light for their Tulip proposal, we explore some of the buildings that could have been but never were.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
374	11 Dec 2018 30 min	Design Miami: This week we focus on the festivities at Design Miami, which wrapped last weekend, and visit the Long Island workshop of lighting firm Allied Maker. Plus: what will the military forces of the future be wearing?	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	6 Dec 2018 7 min	Extra: Printworks: The cavernous halls of the Printworks, an old newspaper printing plant in London district Canada Water, have been turned into a major destination for lovers of electronic music. The team behind the project are keen to get the most out of their building, which also happens to be a historical landmark in its own right.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
373	4 Dec 2018 30 min	Remembering Jørn Utzon: On the centenary of celebrated (and controversial) Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s birth, we assess his best-known work: the Sydney Opera House. Plus: Pentagram’s latest partner Yuri Suzuki on sound and we find out how to design a fire.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	29 Nov 2018 10 min	Extra: Brains and Braun: London-based research project Das Programm focuses on the industrial-design legacy of Dieter Rams and Frankfurt-based firm Braun. Here Das Programm’s director Dr Peter Kapos talks about the enduring influence of both.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
372	27 Nov 2018 30 min	Home futures: How will fewer resources, a lack of space and new technologies impact the way we build our homes? We seek answers at a new exhibition and talk to a designer about creating tiny homes. Plus: quantifying the value of design.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	22 Nov 2018 7 min	Extra: Chip off the old block: Thomas Chippendale: The 18th century is known for the Enlightenment, a few bloody revolutions and the work of Britain’s most eminent and enduring cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale. His journey to prominence is being documented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition ‘Chippendale’s Director: The Designs and Legacy of a Furniture Maker’.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play

Design / Podcast

Monocle on Design

Latest episode

Latest episodes

Extra: Room to breathe:

Architecture in the Amazon:

Extra: Nobel intentions:

Design: On the cards:

Logo design :

2018 in review :

Extra: Yukiwa – Japan’s silver service:

The Internet of Things:

Extra: Absent architecture:

Design Miami:

Extra: Printworks:

Remembering Jørn Utzon:

Extra: Brains and Braun:

Home futures:

Extra: Chip off the old block: Thomas Chippendale:

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