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
Linking art and design
We explore the links between art and design with artist-cum-architect Anish Kapoor and London’s Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic tells us about his new book.
Porro and lidex
David Plaisant takes us through the best bits of Business of Design Week in Hong Kong. Plus, we head to Milan to learn about the craft of design brand Porro and travel to Toronto…
Design Miami special
Design Miami special: we pick the best from the US’s most prominent design fair including chats with the event’s director Rodman Primack, Seattle-based architects Olson Kundig and we witness the unveiling of a new…
Fifty years of graphic design at the RCA
We discuss 50 years of graphic design at the Royal College of Art, learn about RUA Arquitetos in Rio de Janeiro, head to Beirut to find out about 3D printing and speak to broadcaster…
Back to sketching school
We get our sketch books out as the Royal Drawing School celebrates its recent rebranding, head to Mexico City where American graphic-designer Lance Wyman is much revered, we also get the latest design news…
Designing trains
What does it take to design a new train? We speak to Fabio Filippini of Pininfarina, which has just unveiled its new Eurostar carriages. We also take a tour of Oliver Spencer’s new Shoreditch…
Japan’s stadiums
All the highlights from the Istanbul Design Biennal, plus we hear the latest on Japan’s national stadium plans, explore a book devoted to Danish silversmith Georg Jensen and visit Eley Kishimoto’s London studio.
Lesson in fashion illustration
David Plaisant gets a lesson in fashion illustration with Stuart McKenzie. We also return to UN headquarters to find out about Norway’s design legacy, take a tour of the Orgatec office-furniture fair in Köln…
Fashion in Seoul
This week David Plaisant visits the Biennale Interieur in Belgium, our New York bureau chief explores the recently refurbished UN headquarters and we go to South Korea for the new-look Seoul Fashion Week.
Lisbon’s finest
We look around some of Lisbon’s finest properties, tour two very different furniture fairs in Belgium and California and pick our top homeware options from Monocle’s Design Directory.
