Videos, Internet marketing, fine art and Kwame's mug. 323 East in Royal Oak has become one-stop shopping for creative inspiration. Home to the Ohm Creative Group, this storefront firm and art gallery is an ambitious (and successful!) merger of innovative business and unbridled expression.
University students, no longer content with working yet another McJob, are pursuing internships as their path to a new economy career. While smarter local companies and leaders are getting the hint, there's still a lot more that can be done to keep these top talents in Michigan after graduation.
Atten-hut! There's no camouflaging it – southeast Michigan is a bustling base of operations for businesses supplying all branches of the armed forces. Meet robot simulators, holographic weapon sights, and a fuel cell innovator on Metromode's first tour of duty.
Toss that bag of Funyuns. Instead, grow some real onions! Area agriculture gurus offer up some sage advice on how and why Michigan's second largest industry should get its fair share of attention.
Computer science + design + social science = Innovation. Concentrate checks out the student projects at the University of Michigan's School of Information and witnesses the next evolutionary stage in information technology.
Ollie up, folks! Ride Metromode's skateboard to the bowls, ledges, and rails of Farmington Hills' future Riley Skate Park …and see Ann Arbor roll towards its own skater sanctuary.
Like most sports, skateboarding has it's own jargon. Metromode gets a few choice definitions from Rob Woelkers and then offers a quick list of resources for those who are interested in learning more about board culture.
"Rent Me! Please!" Signs and pricey newspaper ads used to be the only options for property owners and renters to connect. Now, Ann Arbor entrepreneur Jeremy Schneider is fast becoming the kingpin of national rental housing searches, via the rise of Rentlinx, a unique multi-list website.
With the proliferation of personal info on the Internet today – everything from bank account access to your boyfriend's pet name – life is becoming a paperless open book. Metromode talks with some area experts who are helping to keep some of those pages from prying eyes.
Wunderkind Chris Rizik gives new meaning to the word, "multitasking." From his simultaneous careers as an entrepreneur and financier to the writer and publisher of the most popular soul music website in the country, this Ann Arborite's life has hit one high note after another.
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