Monocle on Design
Your essential guide to design, covering fashion, furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
Latest Episodes
Extra: Designmonat Graz
The second edition of Designmonat Graz has taken over Austria’s second city. It explores the melding of analogue and digital worlds under the theme “The New Real”. Alexei Korolyov reports.
Venice Architecture Biennale – Part 2
The second of our two episodes dedicated to the Venice Architecture Biennale’s international showcase. We stop in at the pavilions of Australia, Germany, Togo and the USA.
Extra: ‘Embracing Craft, Connecting Culture’
We visit Crafts On Peel’s exhibition, Embracing Craft, Connecting Culture, which showcases rattan, neon and metalsmithing among other practices. It’s one of many events taking place during London Craft Week.
Venice Architecture Biennale – Part 1
In the first of two dedicated episodes, we visit the pavilions of Denmark, Brazil and Switzerland at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Extra: Inner-city Ikea
We visit the Swedish homeware and furniture giant’s newest retail location on London’s Oxford Street.
Monocle Design Awards 2025
We’re celebrating the fifth edition of the annual Monocle Design Awards by discussing highlights from this year’s cohort of winners. We hear from medallists Manuel Cervantes and Eva-Marie Eriksson.
Extra: On the Sq
In east London a four-storey house has been renovated and transformed into a design wonderland, with bespoke works made in response to the site. The project’s curator, Irenie Cossey, tells us more.
‘Morris Mania’, Ethnicraft, MAKE Southwest
The William Morris Gallery celebrates the versatility and popularity of the designer’s patterns in its latest exhibition.
Extra: Bronze-casting in Benin City
Artist and maker Bisila Noha presents a diary of the processes and experiences of learning at famous casting epicentre Igun Street.
Type and textiles
Graphic designer and co-founder of Dinamo Typefaces, Johannes Breyer discusses storytelling through type and rebranding Spotify. Plus: curator and historian Mary Schoeser discusses the link between textiles and people over history
