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
Healing with design
The design series is presented by Monocle’s design editor Hugo Macdonald and focuses on global design, architecture, fashion and graphics.
Revisiting Section D’s past
Monocle design editor Hugo Macdonald revisits the first 10 weeks of the programme, with Terence Conran, a Finnish scissor factory and Monocle’s Poppy Shibamoto.
Behind Lego
Hugo Macdonald talks to Lego-designers in Denmark, visits Bergdorf Goodman in New York and finds out what Christmas design means to Peter York.
Amsterdam: the new advertising hotspot
The design series is presented by Monocle’s design editor Hugo Macdonald and focuses on global design, architecture, fashion and graphics.
Hitting Design Miami
The design series is presented by Monocle’s design editor Hugo Macdonald and focuses on global design, architecture, fashion and graphics.
Vienna’s young designers
We hear about the Midcentury Modern furniture sale in London, talk to British architect David Adjaye and learn about young Austrian designers in Vienna.
How design changes the way people live in cities
We learn how design changes the way people live in cities, talk about design for social change in São Paulo and visit architects in Copenhagen.
Celebrating Sir Terence Conran
On this week’s Section D we celebrate Sir Terence Conran, talking to Peter York, Tom Dixon and the man himself about why his design has such an impact.
Japan after the tsunami
Focusing on how Japanese designers are coping after the Tsunami and we go on a shopping spree for Japanese goods in Sydney, London and LA.
Being crowned World Design Capital
What does it mean to be crowned World Design Capital? We head to Cape Town and Helsinki to find out. Plus the charm and chaos of Sao Paulo.
