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On the site today, you’ll find Metropolis’s annual special product issue. After the jump, senior editor Kristi Cameron explains this year’s theme in the latest installment of our “Metropolis Minute” video series. Read more…

Click the play button to watch Metropolis’s editor in chief, Susan S. Szenasy, discuss this year’s Smart Environments Awards.

The annual IIDA/Metropolis Smart Environments Awards recognize excellence in interiors that are in tune with 21st-century needs and desires—meaning that they are beautiful, sustainable, and accessible. Click here to read about this year’s winning projects. For monthly coverage of the best in sustainable design, subscribe to Metropolis today.

Click the play button to watch Metropolis’s creative director, Criswell Lappin, talk about this month’s cover-design process.

We’ve nicknamed the January issue of Metropolis the “1 - 5 - 10 Issue” for its cover story, called “What Next,” in which architecture and design leaders forecast events in their fields—one, five, and ten years from now. It’s a perfect example of the kind of forward-looking, interdisciplinary design coverage you can only find in the pages of Metropolis. Click here to subscribe today.

Click the play button to watch Metropolis’s editor in chief, Susan Szenasy, discuss a recent executive order by President Obama that promises exciting opportunities for design collaboration.

In her monthly editor’s letter, Szenasy presents opinionated takes on some of the most pressing issues in design today—from the urgent need for research and collaboration in the industry to the crucial steps required for a more sustainable future. It’s a perfect example of the kind of critical, cross-disciplinary design coverage you can only find in the pages of Metropolis. Click here to subscribe today.

Click the play button to watch Metropolis’s managing editor, Belinda Lanks, discuss her In Production column in the November issue of the magazine.

Each month, In Production features a new product by an up-and-coming designer, alongside his or her detailed comments on the choices (and compromises) that led to the final design. It’s the kind of in-depth, process-oriented product coverage that you can only find in the pages of Metropolis. Click here to subscribe today.

Click the play button to watch Metropolis’s editorial director, Paul Makovsky, discuss his Productsphere column in the October issue of the magazine.

Each month, the magazine’s Productsphere column brings design professionals a wealth of innovative and inventive new products, organized around a central theme of particular relevance to the industry. Recent installments have looked at everything from health-care solutions and kitchen appliances to furnishings that should survive the global recession. Whether you’re speccing products for a new interior or just trying to keep up with the latest trends, Productsphere is a must-read. And it’s a perfect example of the kind of product coverage you’ll only find in the pages of Metropolis. Click here to subscribe today.

Click the play button for a video preview of our September 2009 cover story on the elusive Argentine architect Emilio Ambasz.

So you think you know all about Emilio Ambasz? Sure, you may have seen memorable photos of his work elsewhere. For the full story of this controversial architect, however, you need to check out the September 2009 issue of Metropolis. There you’ll find a feast of photos, drawings, and other stunning visuals. But to really understand the significance of Ambasz’s work to you—and the green movement—you have to read our in-depth cover story, “Emilio Ambasz: Father of Sustainability or Slave to Form?”

Unless you read it Metropolis, you won’t know the entire story. Click here to subscribe today.