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Latest Episodes
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.
Graphic design digest
Coming up today we’re talking graphic design and digging into the archives to find some of our favourite recent interviews. We discuss the art of data visualisation with Steven Heller and Josh Fehnert asks Julius Wiedemann about the golden age of mid-century logos.
Extra: Setting the scene
In the age of coronavirus, broadcast news has never been more important. We visit Bloomberg TV’s London HQ, designed by Norman Foster, to find out what it takes to build a cutting-edge news set.
Architecture and the media, design in Asia and Josef Frank
This week we offer some design-minded diversions from the heavy headlines. We talk design in Asia with Hong Kong-based editor Suzy Annetta and Josh Fehnert discusses how Austrian designer Josef Frank found favour in Sweden.
Extra: Eileen Gray
Underappreciated in her lifetime, the career of late Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray is the subject of a timely new exhibition at The Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York. Jennifer Goff, curator of the Eileen Gray collection at the National Museum of Ireland, tells us more.
Ilse Crawford, Yasmeen Lari and Vienna’s mall maestro
British designer Ilse Crawford discusses her appetising revamp of Helsinki’s Alvar Aalto-designed Savoy restaurant. Plus: we meet Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, and Josh Fehnert discusses malls and the future of retail.
Extra: ‘Cars: Accelerating the Modern World’
‘Cars: Accelerating the Modern World’ is an exhibition at London’s V&A museum examining the shifting role of the automobile in everything from social style to mechanics. We speak to its curator, Brendan Cormier.
