Galina Leinen
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Suzan Szenasy in Conversation with Suzan Globus.
Suzan Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis magazine interviews Suzan Globus, Interior Designer and Past President of the American Society for Interior Designers.
Yves Béhar: Laptops for Kids & Safe Sex for NYC
Yves Behar, Founder of fuseproject, demonstrates the OX Computer designed for the One Laptop Per Child program which delivers ingeniously designed technology to schools in developing countries, and the new NYC condom wrapper and dispenser—a sexy design solution that promotes safe sex.
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Comic Radio, Film Distribution and the Miracle of Bumblebees
Video: Stephen Savage is an award winning writer-director. His film, ‘Cosmic Radio’ was named an official selection to the Palm Springs International film festival, 2008, and was an official invited feature to the Sundance Film Festival, 2008. His next feature film, “Country Club Cowboy”, is greenlit to begin filming in 2009, and his AFI/Sundance Channel Invited Submission short film, “The Hunter’s Moon”, is shooting this coming August.
Sensible Hospitality: Kimpton Hotels
Video: The Kimpton Hotels are stylish, comfortable, and leading the pack in green practices. Ron Sheldon, vice president of development and construction, and Ron Vlasic, regional vice president, will reveal the genius behind this great hotel chain.
Moving Towards the Future: Eric Olsen
Video: Eric Olsen, the 2008 Next Generation Design Competition winner, discusses his revolutionary project.
No to Child Labor! Yes to Education!: Nina Smith
Video: RugMark’s independent certification label appears on the back of more than 40 different rug brands, ensuring that manufacturers have complied with its no child labor standard. A percentage of its sales support education in South Asia. Nina Smith, RugMark USA Executive Director shares this inspiring story.
Social Minded Product Design: Emily Pilloton
Video: Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H Design, a website that encourages and supports humanitarian product design solutions, talks about her vision, and the recent success of the new Greener Gadgets Conference.
Things Fall Apart: Fritz Haeg
Video: Fritz Haeg, architect, educator, and author of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, the newest title published by Metropolis Books, will talk about his current activities, and designs that transcend materiality and reconnect 21st-century humans to a primitive place of plants, animals, weather, dance, and dirt.
The Legacy of Isamu Noguchi: Douglas DeNicola
Video: Douglas DeNicola, the Design Director of the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, Queens discusses the Japanese artist’s legacy, the crafting of his famous Akari Light Sculptures, as well as the licensing agreements that fund the museum’s education programs.
Spec It Green
Video: Tanu Kumar, director of business services, and Tzipora Lubarr, project manager of sustainable initiatives, at the New York Industrial Retention Network speak about Spec It Green, an initiative to raise green building awareness and connect local green manufacturers with designers and builders.
