At last month’s NeoCon World’s Trade Fair, in Chicago, Metropolis’s Susan Szenasy and Paul Makovsky captured a handful of key designs—and design conversations—on digital video. Above: Roger Martin, the dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and the author of The Design of Business, speaks with Makovsky at an event at the Steelcase showroom in the Merchandise Mart supported by the Consulate General of Canada in Chicago.
This year’s Metropolis Conference at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, in New York, featured a cast of “design entrepreneurs” who are reinventing their practices through creative approaches to the new economy. Even if you couldn’t make it to the daylong conference, you’re still in luck: video of the complete event is now available. Watch the one-minute teaser above for a quick look at a few of the speakers’ presentations, and keep scrolling for the conference schedule with links to all of the videos. Read more…
From this year’s NeoCon World’s Trade Fair, in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart: Nearly 200 photos of the best in workplace furniture, lighting, textiles, technology, and more. Read more…
As you may have read in the New York Times the other day, Metropolis’s editor in chief, Susan Szenasy, was one of several design mavens to comb the recent ICFF in search of the very best products for the annual ICFF Editors Awards. This year, Szenasy toted along a Flip video camera for part of her rounds. Click the play button for a sample of her unofficial ICFF video diary; to watch the full videos, visit our Multimedia page.
On Saturday morning, Tom Dixon sat down with us in one of the three booths that his team occupies at the front of the ICFF hall. A few feet away, American students dressed as factory workers were busy assembling a pair of limited-edition Dixon designs that could be purchased on site—part of his Flash Factory project, which debuted in Milan last month. Also fresh from Milan: the Industry collection of seating and lighting, on display in the Dixon booth proper. Click the play button for the designer’s thoughts on his new collection, the problems with the furniture business, and the benefits of the global recession.
Video shot and edited by Eve Dilworth; interview and text by Mason Currey.
Our executive editor may have been mesmerized by Naoto Fukasawa’s Shelving System for Artek, but I’d wager that most people passing by the venerable Finnish manufacturer’s booth are more caught up in the live upholstery demonstration being staged there during the fair. Click the play button to watch Artek’s design director, Ville Kokkonen, explain the company’s Dress the Chair campaign.
Video shot and edited by Eve Dilworth; text by Mason Currey
For this year’s Metropolis booth, we’re hosting the last stop of Emily Pilloton’s Design Revolution Road Show, which has been traversing the country since February, bringing a selection of products that empower people to high school and university students (and Stephen Colbert). Earlier today we caught up with Emily in the vintage Airstream trailer that has served as her traveling exhibition space—and living quarters!—for the past three months. Click the play button to watch her final Road Show appearance.
Video shot and edited by Eve Dilworth; text by Mason Currey.
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