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July 13, 2010

See NeoCon Through Our Editors’ Eyes

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 […]

By: Metropolis

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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Here, Michael McCoy walks Szenasy through the finer points of his Horizon lamp for Humanscale (designed with Peter Stathis).

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Scott Wilson shows us the SW_1 collection he designed for Coalesse. (Read more about the collection in our June feature story.)

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Steelcase‘s Von Robinson talks about the LED technology behind his Wave light.

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Chuck Saylor, the president of Izzy, and the designer Joey Ruiter discuss collaborative spaces.

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Previously: Our 2010 NeoCon Visual Diary; See the ICFF Through Our Editor’s Eyes
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