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
Swedish fashion
The show decamps to Stockholm for the city’s fashion week to talk to those working at the heart of Sweden’s clothing industry.
Capturing creativity
A discussion with London designer Dominic Wilcox about his new “Sounds of Making in East London” vinyl recording project, capturing the sound of creativity.
Olympic branding
We visit German outdoor furniture manufacturers Dedon in the Philippines, talk to architect Morris Adjmi and discuss Olympic branding with Richard Spencer Powell.
Matchbox collections
We visit the design community of Buenos Aires, hear from Melbourne’s Audio Architecture conference and talk to a Macedonian man about his matchbox collection.
Can luxury and digital technology coexist?
The design series is presented by Monocle’s design editor Hugo Macdonald and focuses on global design, architecture, fashion and graphics.
Pep Torres’s favourite forms
We head to the annual Design Parade at Hyères, talk to Pep Torres about his favourite forms and look at Singaporean graphics with Hanson Ho.
Architecture and wellbeing
David Burney on how architecture can improve wellbeing, we visit an ambassador residency in Wellington and enjoy sporting posters at the Russian embassy in London.
Powering devices, cake churches and environmental energy
Electronic devices powered by humans, a method of furniture production that puts energy back into the environment and the thinking behind a giant cake church.
Milan’s vertical forest
Urban improvement: why Zürich is Monocle’s favourite city, Stefano Boeri discusses “vertical forest” apartments in Milan and we learn about the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Round-up of the world’s design fairs
A trip to the world’s design fairs: DesignMiami at Art Basel, NeoCon 2012 in Chicago and Berlin’s DMY festival show off their wares.
