Design

Toying with convention in the House of Toogood

Multidisciplinary designer Faye Toogood is known for her experimental creative approach. We head to her London studio to learn how shes’s enjoying worldwide recognition.

Business

Boys and their toys: What happened to the playthings of the yuppie office?

Richard Loncraine and Peter Broxton spent 30 years producing delightfully distracting desktop decorations for executives.

Culture

‘Nickel Boys’ and ‘Babygirl’

We start the year off with a bang by celebrating the release of two fantastic new films. We hear from director RaMell Ross about ‘Nickel Boys’, a formally inventive and beautifully rendered adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Colson Whitehead. Then: erotic thriller ‘Babygirl’, starring Nicole Kidman, depicts a lustful affair between a CEO […]

Affairs

Sniffing out trouble: Why canines are still top dogs for airport security

Monocle visits the headquarters of the TSA’s Canine Training Center to learn more about the rigorous training of US airport sniffer dogs.

Affairs

Why are we walking so quickly?

Pedestrians are now striding faster than ever. It may be a sign of upward mobility but in our hurry, are we missing out on a convivial street life and the chance encounters it offers?

Affairs

Five key takeaways from the World Governments Summit

Dubai’s World Governments Summit brings together policymakers and experts to discuss issues from technology to economics. Here are some of the leaders setting this year’s agenda.

Business

How banning vehicles is transforming Tempe into the US’s most walkable city

Arizona’s Culdesac residential development is driving progress for pedestrians in a country where the car remains king.

Affairs

As geopolitical tensions rise, how free is the sky?

Conflicts in the Middle East, Europe and beyond have reshaped the world’s airspace, making much of it off-limits. We find out how airlines are negotiating the new faultlines on the aeronautical chart.

Toya Wolfe

This week, Georgina Godwin is joined by Chicago-based author Toya Wolfe to discuss her debut novel, ‘Last Summer on State Street’, an intimate portrait of family relationships and female friendship.

The Weekend Opener

Top of the class

We organised a sort of school trip on Tuesday. Sadly, there was no coach hired for the day and we didn’t ask people to bring packed lunches with them. The plan was simple: anyone was welcome and all you had to do was get yourself to the Design Museum in Kensington for the opening at […]