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.

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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…

In our June issue, Ken Shulman writes about the up-and-coming design duo Antenna Design, and discusses its recent collaboration with Knoll. Antenna Workspaces is not only Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa’s first furniture-design project, it is also probably their “biggest job yet.” If you were suitably intrigued by the photographs that accompanied that feature, here’s a video (from the folks over at Cool Hunting) where you can see Antenna Workspaces in all its glory, and hear the “intense listeners” talk about the process of creating it.

In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest.

Elevation drawings of a former Baltimore mill that now houses some 90 businesses, including the author’s small corner office

Last year, I spent several months working in New York and commuting back to Baltimore on the weekends. One night I sat in the audience of an event in Manhattan where the Baltimore-based firm Post Typography explained the benefit of inexpensive office rent. Freed from high overhead, the designers are able to take more personal and creative risks in their work.

In recent years, I’ve noticed more designers setting up shop in Baltimore in a variety of building types, from the archetypal Baltimore row house to the massive mills erected in the boom years of the Industrial Revolution. Read more…

This is a joke, right? That was my reaction to the instant-classic viral video of an office drone going utterly beserk—heaving his PC across the room, toppling panels, menacing coworkers with what looks like an axe—all caught on a security camera. But that’s not the part that shocked me. Read more…