Monocle on Design
Your essential guide to design, covering furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
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Design for the long haul
On the back of Qantas’s first non-stop Perth-to-London flight, we meet David Caon, the man charged with designing a comfortable long-haul experience. Plus: our first impressions from Milan Design Week 2018.
Extra: Sound design
Monocle’s Kenji Hall meets Thomas Fagernes, partner, director and senior architect at Snøhetta, to discuss the company’s new project in the South Korean city of Busan and how the design of such structures should echo their function.
Latin America’s future builders
We head to São Paulo, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile to find out which Latin American architects are making waves abroad. Plus: our Fashion editor on why LVMH is playing musical chairs with its designers.
Extra: Politics and graphic design
From posters to placards, to badges and even buses – graphic design is everywhere in our politics. Monocle’s George McDonagh visits London’s Design Museum for the ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition, looking at the past decade of political graphic design.
Building on water
Architects have long used water to reflect or adorn their work. We meet the editor of a new title making waves in the world of residential architecture. Plus a word with landscape architect Kongjian Yu about solving China’s water crisis and a flick through the finest design magazines with journalist…
Extra: Canadian lighting
Monocle’s Toronto bureau chief Tomos Lewis find out why Canadian lighting designers are experiencing a bright spell at the moment.
What’s in an image?
We trace the origins of mid-century theatre posters in the UK, sit down with Greek film-poster designer Vasilis Marmatakis and head to Australia to speak to musician Mark Pritchard and visual artist Jonathan Zawada about their favourite cover art.
On Design 83: Social architecture
WTA Architecture and Design Studio in Manila has created The Book Stop, a project that reinvents the place and space that a library embodies to increase accessibility in fragmented urban environments. William Ti from the company spoke to Monocle’s James Chambers about how the design of a city affects the…
House Rules
As cities struggle to provide homes in the numbers and to the quality that many desire, we head to London’s Alexandra Road Estate and visit the work of the Amsterdam School for inspiration. Plus: Jo McCafferty from Levitt Bernstein gives us an architect’s view on social housing.
On Design 82: Hubert de Givenchy
With a career spanning 65 years, Givenchy became one of the last true icons of classical couture. Fashion journalist and author Dana Thomas explains how he changed the silhouette of women’s wardrobes forever and how his legacy continues to live on.
