Starting on a shoestring, Benjamin Sommerhalder moved from making his own magazine to building up a small publishing house with a gallery and shop space. And on the way he’s kick-started an old-fashioned publishing boom.
Monocle imagined the perfect cruise ship in the June 2014 issue; for further inspiration we have produced a limited run of 200 prints of the ‘Midori Empress of Sardinia’ in all its glory.
To mark our 15th anniversary, the monocle team has worked with illustrator Satoshi Hashimoto to create a charming poster that charts our editorial journey from a single ambitious magazine to a global media firm covering…
Felix Brüggemann is a German photographer based in Berlin. For Monocle, he has shot everything from old spa towns in the Czech Republic to our London HQ, Midori house.
Print aficionados will flock to Singapore Art Book Fair this week as the event, which runs from 14 to 17 April, showcases a surging Southeast Asian independent-publishing scene. Event co-organiser Kenny Leck – who also owns…
Times don’t have to be tough for the print industry: these three local media outlets prove that success is attainable when you have a strong, high-quality brand.
Whether it be picture-laden coffee table tomes or volumes on aesthetic theory, Germany produces some of the finest art books in the world – and that’s not limited to Taschen. Monocle went to Berlin to pore over a buoyant…
In an age of email the postcard is threatened in some quarters but not in the museum world, where they remain big business. Monocle meets the teams behind some of the world’s mini masterpieces.