Monocle Design
By Monocle
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Bypassing hype, Design is dedicated to unearthing emerging and established talent.
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| 1 | VideoBurel: Fabricating felt | We follow the fortunes of a Burel factory frozen in time in Portugal's Serra da Estrela mountains and rescued by local entrepreneurs João Tomás and Isabel Costa. | 9 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoSalone del Mobile | The 51st Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan revealed a change of mood in the design industry. With manufacturers still suffering from tightened budgets, designers are finding new and innovative techniques to maintain quality. | 23 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoTasmanian Craft | In Tasmania, talented craftspeople are making use of the island's natural materials to design and build furniture, ceramics, and more. Monocle tours the island to meet the designer-makers putting Tasmanian personality on the map. | 23 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoMake, Do, Change | With the maker movement gathering pace across the United States, we headed to the hilly, vibrant city of San Francisco to see where it all began. | 23 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoCraftsmanship | Some cities come to mind straight away when you think of craft and design, but it's also true that untapped markets offer opportunities for entrepreneurship. We talk to designers and artisans in Shanghai, Bradford, Winter Park in Florida and Nový Bor in the Czech Republic, who are reclaiming neglected traditions, adding a contemporary twist and attracting a new, global market. | 27 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoCharleston | 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 school offering hands-on building experience, which included the renovation of its HQ, the Old Jail. | 27 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoTokyo Designers Week | In the wake of a very difficult year for Japan, Monocle heads to Tokyo for its annual design week to see how the city and country is using craft heritage to attract new business. | 18 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoStyle Essentials – Top 25 | Monocle's editors and contributors have travelled the world in search of inspiring retailers and craftsmen, new designers on the brink of breakthrough, top-notch technology and accessories, and that perfect pair of shoes. | 15 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoThe Italian Masters | This year's Salone del Mobile coincided with the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification. Though a time for celebration, Monocle asked key players what the future holds for Italy's industry. | 6 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoMilan Furniture Fair 2011 | This year the Salone del Mobile in Milan celebrated its 50th anniversary. | 27 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoVienna Apprenticeships | Monocle surveys the relationship between apprenticeships and low unemployment rates in Vienna. | 2 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoStrelka Institute | Rachel Morarjee reports on Moscow's newest institution devoted to architecture and urbanism. | 24 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoOrgatec | Ever sensitive to design in the workplace Monocle travelled to Köln for Orgatec, the biannual office furniture trade fair. | 18 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoMade in Gotland | We head to Gotland, an island off the coast of Sweden, to meet its craftspeople. | 18 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoMaison Rabih Kayrouz | Monocle visits Lebanese fashion designer Rabih Kayrouz at his atelier in Paris. | 16 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | Video12th International Architecture Biennale - Part Two | The second of Monocle's films from the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice tackles the issue of urban development. | 9 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | Video12th International Architecture Biennale - Part One | 'People meet in architecture' is the theme of the 12th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. | 3 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoCopenhagen Fashion Week | Monocle's fashion director Takeharu Sato visited Copenhagen Fashion Week to discover new brands, new products, and plenty of attractively attired locals. | 27 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoJames Corner - Reshaping cities | American cities don't fare well in our annual Quality of Life survey but things are beginning to change. | 9 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoMilan design galleries | During this year's Milan furniture fair, Monocle visited three of the city's most celebrated design galleries. | 4 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoLife in miniature | In studios around the world, they sit with scalpels, glue and balsa wood, creating everything from mini cities to pint-sized planes. | 26 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoMilan Furniture Fair | Monocle took to Milan in force for the Salone del Mobile to pick through the stands, showrooms and satellite exhibitions and sum up what's going down in the design world. | 26 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoVintage Danish Design | Monocle goes to Copenhagen to see how classic Danish furniture continues to inspire a nation of designers. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoQ&A: John Morford | Designer John Morford has created some of the most iconic hotel interiors in Asia. Monocle editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé caught up with Morford in Hong Kong to talk about the design ingredients that go into a great hotel. | 23 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoCapsule hotel - 9 hours | The 9 Hours is the brand new capsule hotel unveiled in December 2009 by Tokyo-based Cubic Corp. | 5 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoBicycle Design | As the concept of urban mobility gains momentum, bike manufacturers are harnessing the world's best industrial designers to re-invent locomotion on two wheels. | 15 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoDesign Miami | Celebrating its fifth year, a record-breaking 23,000 people visited Design Miami this year. | 23 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoQ&A with Adrian van Hooydonk | In the run-up to the Frankfurt Motor Show, Monocle editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé talks to Adrian van Hooydonk, head of design at BMW, about designing cars to suit the times, consumer expectations and the relationship between drawing board and driver. | 10 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoThe AP Møller School | Monocle's Sarah Balmond reports from the AP Møller School, tucked away on the outskirts of Schleswig in northern Germany. | 21 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoDeath watch | The Dutch design academy at Eindhoven, in collaboration with Dela - one of the Netherland's biggest funeral insurers - are rethinking the way we'll be remembered in a world where religion has taken a back seat. | 4 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoCraft Punk | This year Design Miami staged an installation at Salone del Mobile that created a public atelier for emerging designers to make and show their work. Monocle's design editor Sarah Balmond looks at CRAFT PUNK's celebration of contemporary craftsmanship. | 6 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoMilan Furniture Fair | Sarah Balmond reports from the sprawling Rho exhibition halls and the city's many design hotspots. | 1 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoThe Future of the Workplace | In the first edition of Monocle's Design Dialogues, an intimate series of discussions on key design issues, we throw the spotlight on the future of the workplace. | 9 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoNew designs on diplomacy | Post September 11 every embassy was built as a bunker ready to repel all comers, but now from Kathmandu to Harare architects are reinventing the mission as a national calling card. Robert Bound reports. | 17 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoVenice Architecture Biennale - Part 2 | In our second film report from the Venice Architecture Biennale, Sarah Balmond visits the curated exhibitions in the Giardini, where national pavilions were transformed into temples to architectural thought. | 24 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoVenice Architecture Biennale | Hosted every other year, the Venice Architecture Biennale invites some of the most conceptual thinkers from around the world to flex their creative muscles to interpret a set theme. This year's curator was Cincinnati Art Museum director Aaron Betsky and his topic of choice "Out There - Architecture Beyond Building". In the first of two films Sarah Balmond reports on the laboratory of ideas in the Arsenale exhibition grounds. | 17 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoTomorrowland | For the past three decades Japanese fashion brand Tomorrowland has successfully navigated a fiercely competitive and highly sophisticated retail market. Under the helm of Hiroyuki Sasaki it made its name and built its reputation on an ability to modify the western trends of Paris and Milan to the Japanese body shape and taste. Tom Morris reports on the culture of Tomorrowland and its inspired collaboration with Jean Paul Knott in Paris. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoEnerginet | Danish Architects Hvidt & Mølgaard have created a state-of-the-art, energy efficient headquarters for Energinet.dk. Thomas Morris reports on a workplace of the future. | 19 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoMilan Furniture Fair | This year's Salone Internazionale del Mobile defied the credit crunch with an optimistic mood and a record number of visitors. Sarah Balmond reports on how emerging designers and established brands are responding to turbulent times. | 1 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoGenbei Yamaguchi | A decade ago it was rare to see a pair of Tokyo teenage boys out shopping in kimonos. But attitudes to national identity are starting to change. Genbei Yamaguchi's new collection for United Arrows is targeting this shift in mood. | 22 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoBeijing: Olympic gold rush | The world will be focused on Beijing this August and, if all goes to the Communist Party's plan, we will be overawed by the glittering lights and maximalist construction of a building boom whose bill runs into tens of billions of yuan. Monocle's Asia Bureau Chief Fiona Wilson visited the city to find out if this is nation-branding folly on a gargantuan scale, or the starting pistol of the Chinese century. | 11 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoAlbam Clothing | Albam, a British fashion start-up, is keeping costs down without turning to factories in China for help. Founded by entrepreneurial fashion outsiders James Shaw and Alastair Rae, the duo's first shop is a breezy, airy space that shows their collection of menswear and accessories. | 6 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoTokyo Designer's Week | Tokyo Designer's Week has become an annual fixture in the creative calendar, with the city literally taken over by exhibitions, events and parties. Monocle explores the shops and galleries of Aoyama, Harajuku and Shibuya to report on the art, the design and, of course, the impossibly fashionable Tokyo crowd. | 22 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoYo Smushi | The Royal Cafe in Copenhagen has given birth to a new culinary phenomenon: Smushi - traditional Danish smørrebrød with a contemporary sushi twist. The idea was created by "gastronaut" Rud Christiansen, who talks to Monocle about the concept that has Asia's retail groups lining up to get a piece of the action. | 31 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoArcana Hotel | The Arcana Hotel is a new favourite for Tokyoites in search of weekend retreats. Located on the Izu Peninsula, this old ryokan has been refurbished with the help of Osaka furniture design company Graf. Monocle's Asia Bureau Chief Fiona Wilson reports on the design philosophy. | 8 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoFuji Kindergarten | Architects Takaharu and Yui Tezuka joined forces with Kashiwa Sato, one of Toyko's most respected creative directors, to build and brand, a novel kind of kindergarten in Tachikawa, a suburban area of Tokyo. Monocle's Asia Bureau Chief Fiona Wilson reports on the Roof House concept. | 8 8 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoCity Slickers | Monocle believes that the measure of a city is more about everyday wonders - pavements, well-designed schools, punctual transport - rather than one-off grand projects. Here's our list of the top 25 urban elements that make a city. | 8 7 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoMilan design diary - part two | In part two of our Milan Design Diary from the Salone del Mobile, Monocle focuses on the Finnish firm Artek, talking to managing director Mirkku Kullberg and creative director Tom Dixon. We also explore the Artek pavilion, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. | 27 6 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoMilan design diary - part one | Milan's Salone del Mobile ranks as the world's biggest industrial design event. This year we dispatched a team of editors to deliver a series of reports in both print and video. For background, see our preview of the event in the May issue of Monocle magazine. In part one of our video report, editor-in-chief Tyler BrûlBrûlé offers the highlights from the fair. | 27 6 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoDesigning Sprinkles Cupcakes | In Monocle issue 02, we featured Los Angeles-based architect Andrea Lenardin Madden. The Austrian modernist might have seemed an odd choice as the design force behind the fast-expanding Sprinkles cupcake empire, yet as Monocle examines her collaboration with Sprinkles in more depth, we find that Lenardin Madden's influence even extends to the cakes. | 15 3 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoH&M's Collection of Style | H&M launches its new premium line Collection of Style (COS) on Regent Street, March 2007. Monocle talks to Rebekka Bay, head of design for womenswear at H&M, about the changing fashion climate and what COS means for the consumer. | 15 2 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 51 Episodes |
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