Monocle – Issue 198: Mobility & Design Special

Monocle is a global affairs, business, culture, design and lifestyle magazine published from London. It combines reporting on cities, entrepreneurship, diplomacy and society with style, travel, design, food and the everyday details that shape quality of life.

Issue 198, the “Mobility & Design Special”, looks at the fast-changing world of transport and the ways mobility continues to reshape cities and everyday life. Monocle’s annual Mobility Survey moves from upgraded Japanese bullet trains and new sleeper-train concepts to electric motorcycles in African cities, seaplanes and the people training to work across the global shipping industry.

Design runs alongside mobility throughout the issue. Ten architects, artists and designers reveal the spaces that have influenced their work, while stories include Gabriel Tan’s combined home and studio in Porto, Ikea’s furniture for increasingly mobile city dwellers and lessons from MoMA’s historic competition for affordable furniture.

Elsewhere, Monocle visits a new generation of galleries in Taiwan, explores Iraq’s lost film archive and emerging cinematic revival, goes behind the scenes at Amsterdam’s Tuschinski cinema and spends three days with the Tokyo Fire Department’s Hyper Rescue 8 unit.

About Monocle
Monocle brings together international affairs, business, design, travel, culture and style in one magazine, with a particular interest in well-run cities, independent businesses, good hospitality and thoughtful products. Its mix of reporting and lifestyle journalism makes it as much a guide to how places work as to how people live, travel and dress.