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.
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Beijing’s design identity
We visit D&AD in London to look at 50 years of design, discuss the new Paris menswear lines and learn about Beijing’s design identity.
Danish Design Centre’s new face
We meet New York gallerist Murray Moss, check out some prefab architecture in Ljubljana and meet the new CEO of the Danish Design Centre.
Reading design
The role of books in design takes us to a library in Vancouver and we meet the former mayor of Bogotá, whose libraries became famous.
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.
