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Latest Episodes
Health and architecture
We examine the link between buildings and wellbeing, find out how tuberculosis shaped modern architecture and speak to designer Ilse Crawford about the importance of materials. Plus: Josh Fehnert is joined by Nic Monisse to talk about how the notion of home and our relationship with the outdoors is changing.
Extra: Contact
Monocle’s Hong Kong bureau chief meets the product designers and engineers using technology to stay safe – and how social distancing is creating a market for certain firms.
Hong Kong special
How are designers in the city responding to Covid-19? We learn what interior designer Joyce Wang has been up to under lockdown. We meet graphic designer and advertising veteran Stanley Wong to learn about the campaigns that have piqued his interest. Plus, we find out if online lessons are going to…
Extra: Two Pages Project
Two Pages Project collaborators Konstantinos Trichas and Dionysis Livanis explain how they keep a global network of designers and creatives connected during lockdown
Fashion to the rescue
Monocle’s Jamie Waters on how fashion turned its hand to creating medical products. Plus, Josh Fehnert talks to Katie Treggiden about the design headlines and a return to craft and we visit a Spanish design firm that has retooled as a mask-maker.
Extra: Fashion comes to the rescue
Jamie Waters explains how the fashion industry emerged as a vital contributor in the fight against the pandemic. Many brands, big and small, have pivoted to make masks and other protective equipment.
The home front
With many of us adjusting to life under lockdown we ask ‘Disegno’ magazine editor Oli Stratford about how the design industry has been affected. Plus, Nolan Giles on Monocle’s home manifesto and Josh Fehnert on why bumps and bruises tell better stories than flush finishes when it comes to turning…
Extra: Earphone etiquette
Listen up as Monocle’s Nolan Giles reflects on the ubiquity of Apple’s AirPods headphones and the social etiquette surrounding them.
Just my type
We look back at a few of our favourite typography tales and hear about a Hague-based foundry making Arabic fonts, a calligrapher’s adventures in ink, an east London sign painter and a typeface analyst. Write on.
Extra: Courtyard living
Charmaine Chan, design editor for ‘South China Morning Post’ believes that courtyards offer an excellent urban solution to domestic solitude. She explains how they can be hubs of community and calm.
