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Latest Episodes
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 to see how a series of designers are reimagining how to make use of one of…
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 about Sweden’s new brand identity.
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 Klokgebouw building in Eindhoven. Plus Guy de Launey reports on Belgrade’s first so-called designer playground and…
Exploring Dutch Design Week
Dutch design special: Section D heads to Eindhoven to explore Dutch Design Week with chats with from the event’s director Martijn Paulen, and chief design officer for Philips Lighting, Rogier Van Der Heide, tells all about bright emerging talent in the Netherlands. Plus from tech to textiles we explore the…
The man behind Studio 54
Jorge P Silva of Aires Mateus architects in Lisbon reflects on the state of Portuguese architecture, our Toronto correspondents report on both the local fashion week and ICAMA (International Conference on Adaptation and movement in Architecture) and Alexa Firmenich meets the man who designed Studio 54, Ian Schrager.
Brazil on the global stage
We speak to Brazilian retailers and designers helping put the nation on the global stage. Brazil aside. Plus visits to two film festivals dedicated to architecture on the silver screen – one in New York and the other in Rotterdam.
Canada’s IIDEX conference
Our Toronto bureau chief Nelly Gocheva reports from Canada’s largest architecture and design event – the IIDEX conference, Tomos Lewis joins the world’s graphic design giants at the members-only annual AGI Open conference in London and David Plaisant heads to the Ditchling Museum which houses some of the best pieces…
London Design Festival special Part 2
London Design Festival special part two: Yves Behar tells Monocle editor Andrew Tuck how good design and environmental concerns can go hand in hand, HTC’s senior vice president of design Scott Croyle outlines how his department will be at the forefront of the embattled brand’s resurgence, and we take a…
London Design Festival special Part 1
London Design Festival special: we traverse all corners of the city meeting a mix of organisers, designers and observers, to discover why 2013’s event has been bigger than ever before.
Monocle on Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon Architecture Triennale Special: featuring interviews with chief curator Beatrice Galilee and Jimenez Lai, winner of this year’s Debut Award. Plus Zak Kyes – the designer behind the triennale’s identity.
