Films — Design

In studios around the world, they sit with scalpels, glue and balsa wood, creating everything from mini cities to pint-sized planes.

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.

Monocle goes to Copenhagen to see how classic Danish furniture continues to inspire a nation of designers.

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.

The 9 Hours is the brand new capsule hotel unveiled in December 2009 by Tokyo-based Cubic Corp.

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.

Celebrating its fifth year, a record-breaking 23,000 people visited Design Miami this year.

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.

Monocle's Sarah Balmond reports from the AP Møller School, tucked away on the outskirts of Schleswig in northern Germany.

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.

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.

Sarah Balmond reports from the sprawling Rho exhibition halls and the city's many design hotspots.

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.

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.

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.