Jon Kessler is a veteran New York-based mixed-media artist, teacher and musician. He has exhibited his mechanical marvels at MoMA, lectured at Columbia University, played with his band at the Highline Ballroom and dressed…
Its cuisine is known the world over and everyone aspires to drive Italian-designed cars. Here are 10 areas in which, economic woes notwithstanding, Italy leads the way.
The World Design Capital for 2012 is having a design renaissance. Helsinki officials, academics and designers are inspired by the chance to prove it isn’t stuck in the shade of its mid-century heritage.
Three key facts:…
In our regular series looking at people’s working lives, we enter the world of Katie Paterson, a 27-year-old artist who brings ideas of the universe to life. One of her witty installations involves calling a mobile phone…
In a former jail, now home to the American College of Building Arts, students are learning traditional restoration techniques and preserving their city of Charleston, South Carolina, in the process. David Kaufman visits the…
The Melbourne School of Design is rethinking how we approach the visual world around us as well as its own teaching space. Monocle visits the school’s new building to learn why it is going back to the drawing board in order…
The clean, practical buildings left behind by the US military occupation of Okinawa in Japan are today influencing a new style of residence there: the Okinawa Standard.
Next to its glittering sister Dubai, Sharjah is often overlooked. But on the art calendar, its boundary-breaking biennial is forcing a rethink of the Arab attitudes to art and the world’s attitude to Arab art. It’s an…
In Bandung, the capital of West Java, a growing hub of creative businesses are choosing to stay put and build an arts and crafts industry. Suddenly, ‘Made in Indonesia’ has become a phrase with a reputation behind it.
James Brett: hater of pretence in art, lover of the weird and wonderful and founder of a new kind of museum that’s pulling in the crowds. Monocle meets him in the run up to his next show at London’s Selfridges department…