Videos

Shaping The Future: Eero Saarinen

By: Tom Hendrickson, 12/13/2007

From GM's Tech Center to St. Louis' Gateway Arch to the eponymous tulip chair (One leg! What a concept!), Eero Saarinen helped shape America's post-war image with his architecture and design. Metromode takes you on a whirlwind tour of Cranbrook's recent exhibit (the kick-off for a national tour), celebrating their former alumni's trail-blazing work.

Design , Video

Michigan Flash Fest

By: Tom Hendrickson, 11/29/2007

Got Flash? Probably one of the most powerful design and multimedia tools on the Internet, this application helps create everything from animation to website interactivity. Enter Michigan's Flash Fest, allowing designers and animators to network while nurturing the kind of talent that attracts new economy companies like EPrize.

Media , Video

The Fifth Luxury Condos

By: Tom Hendrickson, 11/15/2007

"On top of the world, Ma!" In Royal Oak, no less. The Fifth is 18 stories of upscale living (both meanings of the word) and the tallest building in RO's hipper-than-you-might-think downtown. Check it out!

Downtown Living , Housing , Video

Royal Oak

Detroit Bros

By: Tom Hendrickson, 11/1/2007

Metro Detroit as a design aesthetic? Hell, yeah! Detroit Brothers in Ferndale take the industrial grit of the Motor City and turn it into custom motorcycles coveted the world over. Beautiful, brash and badass, their designs live up to the brothers' slogan: "Good parts for bad people."

Advanced Engineering , Arts & Culture , Design , Identity , Transit , Transportation , Video

Ferndale

ForeSee Results

By: Tom Hendrickson, 10/18/2007

What encourages a customer to buy instead of just browse? How do you keep buyers coming back? For some, customer satisfaction is the riddle of the Sphinx. For the gurus at ForeSee Results, it's an opportunity to understand the wants, needs and habits of online shoppers.

Entrepreneurship , Internet , Research , The University Of Michigan , Video

Ann Arbor

Arab American Museum

By: Tom Hendrickson, 10/4/2007

What do Casey Kasem, Tiny Tim and Ralph Nader all have in common? They're Arab Americans. Want to know more about their story? Dearborn is home to the only museum in the country dedicated to capturing the Arab American experience. Tom Hendrickson takes you inside this vital piece of SE Michigan's evolving culture.

Arts & Culture , Museums , Video

Dearborn

Affirmations

By: Tom Hendrickson, 9/20/2007

With its art gallery, cafe, media center, programming and sustainable construction, Ferndale's Affirmations may be the most ambitious LGBT community center of its kind.

Arts & Culture , Diversity , Identity , Quality Of Life , Video

Ferndale

BIG Communications

By: Tom Hendrickson, 9/5/2007

Pssst. BIG Communications has a secret weapon when it comes to attracting clients. They're nice.

Healthcare , PR/Marketing , Video

Ferndale

Mindfield Pictures

By: Tom Hendrickson, 8/30/2007

INT. THE OFFICES OF MINDFIELD PICTURES -- DAY

Designers, animators and editors create cutting edge media projects that bowl clients over. Metro Detroit demonstrates that its emerging film and video production community is something to watch.

Design , Film , Media , Video

Detroit

Restoring The DIA

By: Tom Hendrickson, 8/16/2007

The jewel in southeast Michigan's cultural crown, the Detroit Institute Of Arts (the 5th largest in the country, thank you very much) is being renovated and expanded. Doors don't open 'til November but metromode provides you with a sneak peak.

Arts & Culture , Identity , Museums , Video

Detroit

Remaking Downtown Pontiac

By: Tom Hendrickson, 8/2/2007

Historic, authentic and evolving, downtown Pontiac understands that place matters. From its growing nightlife to its emerging business sector, the city has dedicated itself to the three R's: Revitalization, renovation and renewal.

Downtown Living , Redevelopment , Video

Pontiac

CEOs For Cities

By: Tom Hendrickson, 7/19/2007

What makes a city successful? Concentrate's sister publication, Model D, takes over the Detroit Yacht Club from time to time to host its thought leader speaker series. Check out a sampling from our last guest, Carol Coletta of CEOs For Cities.

Downtown Living , Identity , Transit , Video

Ann Arbor , Detroit

Campbell Ewald

By: Tom Hendrickson, 6/21/2007

As the 6th largest ad agency in the country, Campbell-Ewald believes its Detroit roots stoke the engines of creativity and give it industrial strength ideas.

Advertising , Internet , Talent , Video

Xoran Technologies

By: Tom Hendrickson, 6/7/2007

Xoran Technologies is on a mission to cut healthcare costs through efficiency and innovation. It's been a winning strategy for both the company and Ann Arbor's growing life sciences industry.

Biotechnology , Healthcare , Video

Ann Arbor

Menlo Innovations

By: Tom Hendrickson, 5/24/2007

Not just creators of killer applications, these Ann Arbor software designers are compassionate high-tech anthropologists committed to ending technologically-induced human suffering.

Entrepreneurship , Software Design , Video

Ann Arbor

Frank Lloyd Wright's Turkel House

By: Tom Hendrickson, 5/10/2007

Is it art, or architecture? Frank Lloyd Wright has been called everything from a genius to a charlatan. Take a tour of the Dorothy Turkel House --the only Wright home left in the Motor City-- and decide for yourself.

Architecture , Arts & Culture , Identity , Video

Detroit

LAUNCH

By: Tom Hendrickson, 4/26/2007

Detroit has design, fashion, art, and music in spades and to celebrate that creative energy The Sarahs of Wound Menswear have teamed up with local loft maven Sabra Sanzotta to bring all those things together with LAUNCH.

Arts & Culture , Design , Downtown Living , Fashion , Identity , Music , Quality Of Life , Talent , Video

Detroit

5D: A Vision For Downtown Detroit

By: Tom Hendrickson, 4/5/2007

What will downtown Detroit look like in the future? Four teams of U-M faculty, student designers and architects presented an ambitious vision for the "D" at the 9th Annual Detroit Design Workshop.

Architecture , Arts & Culture , Design , Downtown Living , Quality Of Life , Redevelopment , Sustainability , The University Of Michigan , Video

Detroit

Hamtramck Blow Out

By: Tom Hendrickson, 3/22/2007

Sponsored by Metro Times --Detroit's free newsweekly-- this rock and roll smorgasbord is America’s largest local music fest, drawing 8000 rabid fans to Hamtramck.

Arts & Culture , Music , Quality Of Life , Video

Hamtramck

Shrinking Cities Exhibit

By: Tom Hendrickson, 3/9/2007

This week's video looks at how we can rethink and reinvent a post-industrial city, thanks to the Shrinking Cities exhibit at MOCAD and Cranbrook, which runs through the end of this month.

Redevelopment , Video

Detroit

AIA's Neighborhoods by Design

By: Tom Hendrickson, 2/22/2007

Improving mass transit was the big buzz at a recent gathering of architects focussed on creating better neighborhoods. metromode video producer/director Tom Hendrickson captured the ideas and energy.

Investment , Quality Of Life , Redevelopment , Transit , Video

Detroit

Visit Detroit

By: Tom Hendrickson, 2/1/2007

Tourism officials are working to build a metro Detroit brand that speaks to young, urban enthusiasts. In this clip, producer/director Tom Hendrickson shows what that Detroit looks like.

Travel, Hospitality , Video

Detroit

TechTown

By: Tom Hendrickson, 1/25/2007

Take a look inside TechTown, a home to technology start-ups in Detroit. Video producer Tom Hendrickson offers a guided tour.

Advanced Engineering , Alternative Energy , Biotechnology , Entrepreneurship , Higher Education , Internet , Life Sciences , Video

Detroit

ePrize

By: Tom Hendrickson, 1/4/2007

EPrize has been part of what founder and CEO Josh Linkner calls a "reverse brain drain," attracting employees from the coasts to work at the Internet promotion agency. Watch their story here.

Advertising , Entrepreneurship , PR/Marketing , Talent , Video

Royal Oak