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
Good design and natural disaster
A look at the new crop of designers reinvigorating the Turkish fashion scene, we learn how good design helps cities during natural disasters and as Cape Town celebrates being 2014 World Design Capital we…
2013 highlights
Tom Morris dives into the archives to unearth the best design stories of 2013 and, of course, a whistle-stop tour of design festivals around the world.
Christmas-inspired design
We profile the designers creating that Yuletide feeling through their work, including a Christmas-card letterpress in New York, the street displays of the Big Apple’s retailers and an artisan market in Vienna for a…
Creations from Cartier
Just in time for Christmas we get sparkly at a new exhibition of Cartier’s best ever creations in Paris, explore the mystery of Turkey’s lost Expo pavilion of 1958 and find out what effect…
Round-up from Design Miami
We report from Design Miami and design journalist Dan Rubinstein discusses the event’s successes and failures. We also hear from the Monocle art desk ahead of the release of our winter publication, Alpino and…
Calligraphy with Rajiv Surendra
We turn on the neon in Seoul and drop in on an expo dedicated to signage, we also meet an industry leader in calligraphy, Rajiv Surendra and visit a landmark of hi-tech architecture (from…
25 years after Danube Island
Elna Nykanen Andersson reports from the Swedish Association of Architects’ annual gala about how the city is bracing itself as its population rapidly increases and we decamp to Austria 25 years after the pioneering…
Portugal and cork
Monocle’s creative director Richard Spencer Powell and photo director Poppy Shibamoto discuss the design of our biggest ever issue, we meet the minds behind a pioneering new multi-faith centre in Berlin and visit Portugal…
Paris’s newest design star Pauline Deltour
Monocle’s David Plaisant is in Turin to visit the city’s Paratissima design show, Aled John heads to Paris to meet with rising design star Pauline Deltour and our creative director Richard Spencer Powell talks…
Balancing design and activism with Femke Herregraven
Femke Herregraven, winner of this year’s Mini Dutch Design Award for a young designer tells Aled John how she balances design with activism and we’re given a tour of the exhibitions at the iconic…
