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On Design 23: What can a title sequence add to a film?
This week Ben Rylan, presenter of ‘The Cinema Show’, takes a closer look at an often overlooked piece of cinematic design: the opening title sequence. Though less and less common, the title sequence can be a powerful tool for setting the mood of a film. And when we asked Ben…
Sneaker special
On today’s boxfresh show we step into the well-worn world of wearable design as we cast our gaze streetward and talk shoe design with a 30-year veteran of the industry from Nike and an Argentinian cobbler making shoes to last. Plus: the new magazine for footwear aficionados.
On Design 22: Is India building the wrong kind of architecture?
James Taylor-Foster, European editor at large at architecture website ArchDaily, surveys the state of Indian architecture and suggests a blueprint for a 21st-century vernacular.
New year, new design
We usher in the new year by speaking to three incisive commentators about what 2017 holds in store for design, architecture and fashion.
Section D: best of 2016
From tips on designing a successful architecture competition to the secret life of colour. Plus: how to live in a city, sustainable design and an in-depth discussion of chair copyright law.
Unbuilt architecture
We pay homage to the buildings that never were and the grand designs that didn’t make it off the drawing board.
On Design 21: What is mafia baroque architecture?
After Bulgaria’s first elections were held in 1990, the free market rushed in to fill the economic vacuum left by the fall of communism. On one side there arose a new class of oligarchs and on the other, against a backdrop of economic failure, the notorious organised crime sector of…
Design Miami 2016
In a design calendar saturated with stuffy halls and sad sandwiches, Design Miami – an offshoot of the Art Basel fair held in Miami each December – is a sunny and salubrious affair. Monocle’s New York deputy bureau chief Megan Billings reports from the show. Plus: a round-up of the…
On Design 20: How has Vienna benchmarked public seating?
This week Monocle’s man in Vienna Alexei Korolyov tells the story of a piece of street furniture that’s become a contemporary design symbol of the Austrian capital.
White elephants
Today we’re on safari for the architectural outliers known as white elephants: those buildings built with the best of intentions that – through poor conception, spiralling costs or unforeseen circumstances – have fallen from favour and out of use. We also talk to Richard Rogers and the Riba International Prize…
