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The fine print
This week we’re leafing through a few of our favourite print titles. How has interiors magazine ‘Apartamento’ shifted its lens on the home in recent months? What does the editor of Hong Kong-based ‘Design Anthology’ think about Asia’s post-pandemic design prospects? Roll up for our glossy, newsy and knowing print-themed…
Extra: Championing craft
Monocle’s design editor Nolan Giles visits the factory of the fine timber furniture brand Ercol to see how it continues to champion craftsmanship.
Meet your makers
Monocle’s Josh Fehnert talks to our Tokyo bureau chief, Fiona Wilson, about how traditional crafts can help us to rethink manufacturing moving forwards. Plus: we hear from the visionaries behind furniture brands Another Country and Living Edge, from London and Australia respectively.
Extra: Consider the corridor
Writer and academic Roger Luckhurst shares the utopian ideals behind the humble corridor.
Back to work
Linda Morey-Burrows, principal director of architecture and design firm MoreySmith, on how lockdown has changed the world of work. Plus: Canadian designer Jamie Wolfond on staying lively in a lockdown and Brisbane-based commentator Lindy Johnson on getting architects back to work.
Extra: Fit the bill
When New York City’s Poster House museum had to close its doors in early March, director Julia Knight wondered how the institution could support the city. Today her inspiring solution can be seen across all five boroughs.
Branding crisis: Part II
Josh Fehnert is joined by Monocle’s creative director, Richard Spencer Powell, to discuss a UN brief for designers to respond to coronavirus and review the current crop of public-health posters.
Extra: Making a stand
Industrial designer Rachelle LeBlanc tells us about the freestanding wood and plexiglass barriers that she has produced and donated to corner shops and neighbourhood grocers in Toronto.
Branding crisis: Part I
Clive Russell and Charlie Waterhouse are graphic designers at This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll, whose clients include Médicins San Frontières and Extinction Rebellion. They tell Josh Fehnert why ‘branding’ doesn’t help when describing a crisis. Plus: Mathieu de Muizon on how illustration can add humanity to tough messages.
Extra: How do buildings affect our health?
Dr Joseph Allen is assistant professor of exposure at Harvard’s department of environmental health and head of its Healthy Buildings programme. Here he explains how architecture can affect our health, happiness and productivity.
