Monocle on Design
Your essential guide to design, covering furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
Latest Episodes
Talking perfume with Dawn Goldworm
Business of Design Week in Hong Kong, Design Miami in Florida, and chats with Kenya Hara, Asif Khan and perfumer Dawn Goldworm.
Canadian design
Canadian design special: Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto, we find the maker community in Vancouver and sit down with designers Yabu Pushelberg.
Renovating the security council chamber
A sneak peek at the renovated UN Security Council Chamber, we attend London’s Sleep 2012 expo and inspect the archives of brutalist architect Denys Lasdun.
Haiti’s first fashion week
We head to Haiti to attend the island’s first fashion week, drop in on the Greenbuild Expo in San Francisco and check out Barcelona architecture.
Australian design with Sean Codsell, Lucy Feagins, Russel Koskela and Sasha Titchkosky
Australian design: with Melbourne architect Sean Godsell, we meet Lucy Feagins at the Melbourne Cup and chat to furniture designers Russel Koskela and Sasha Titchkosky.
Design and Norwegian-Japanese relations
We meet Japanese designers in Tokyo, hear from architect Naomi Pollock and learn how design affects Norwegian-Japanese relations.
The best of Dutch Design Week
The best of Dutch Design Week, we hear about the future of Belgian design and visit the Orgatec office furniture event in Köln.
With Erik Spiekermann and Murray Moss
Hugo Macdonald visits the TYPO International Design Talks conference – meeting typographer Erik Spiekermann and also hears from designer Murray Moss in New York.
Telling the story of graphic design
Pearl Lam discusses design, we visit an open house in Lisbon and Monocle’s Richard Spencer Powell considers the story of graphic design.
Discussing ugliness
We visit the World Architecture Festival in Singapore, authot Steven Bayley discusses “ugliness” and we learn about the future of Hong Kong design.
