2Here’s a sneak peek of one of the extras on the Urbanized DVD, from our filming of the demolition of the final tower of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project.
The DVD and Blu-ray will be released February 14, pre-order them here. We’re also taking pre-orders for the last few limited-edition Design Trilogy Box Sets.
Categories: Film News, Merchandise
0We’ve created a limited-edition box set of definitive editions of Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized (on DVD or Blu-ray disc) in a specially designed slipcover package, with a hardbound art book featuring photos and notes on the making of the three films, guest contributors, and more. Plus some extra surprise goodies. Each copy signed by director Gary Hustwit. Discs are Region 0 (world) and include extra content and English language subtitles. Trilogy Box Sets will ship March 16th.
We’re producing 1,000 copies of this box set, but most of those have already been committed to backers of our Kickstarter campaign last year. There are only 250 copies still available, and they’ll be on sale here February 3rd, starting at 12 noon EST.
Categories: Merchandise
5Starting today, you can now watch Urbanized online while it’s still in theaters! If you’ve got iTunes and you’re in the US or Canada, you can watch it via iTunes as a premium rental. If you’re not in those countries, you can rent it directly from our website via Distrify. You can also embed the film in your website or blog and share it with folks you know.
I’ll be honest, watching a film on your computer isn’t exactly the ideal viewing experience. But realistically, we aren’t going to be able to do a special screening event in every one of your cities, and this way we can show the film out to everyone who wants to see it. Now. I know some of you have your computer hooked up to your television with a good sound system, or use Apple TV or other devices to watch streaming video on your home system. That’s awesome. But I would still recommend that if you can, please try to see the film in a proper cinema!
Cheers,
Gary
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1How awesome is this? Our friends at Field Notes have made a run of custom Urbanized Field Notes notepads, and they’re giving them free to everyone who attends the Chicago Premiere this Sunday!
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3Feast your eyes upon the official Urbanized poster, designed by the always industrious folks at Build. It’s two-sided, 27″ x 39″, and remixes some of the iconography Build created for the Urbanized limited-edition silkscreen prints (only a few of those left, get one).
Why two sides? 1) You get to you choose which side you want to display, and 2) If they’re randomly alternated when we post multiple copies, they create sort of a “city skyline” of their own, like such:
We’ll be bringing these along with us on the screening tour, and selling them via the website soon, so stay tuned. But we’ve also printed a special 11″x17″ version especially for the TIFF ’11 World Premiere, and we’ll be giving a copy to the first 100 ticket/pass holders who show up for the screening at the Ryerson Theatre tomorrow.
Cheers!
Gary
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Over a thousand people have backed our Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to help finish Urbanized. Thanks! We’ve got two weeks left, and we’re getting closer to our funding goal. But as with all Kickstarter projects, if we don’t meet that goal, we don’t get any of the funding. So if you haven’t already, please help us finish the film, you’ll get some sweet rewards!
Like the Design Film Trilogy limited-edition box set: definitive editions of Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized, plus a hardcover art book with notes, photos, and essays on the three films. Designed by Build, only 1,000 copies of this Trilogy box will be produced, and the only way to reserve a copy is through our Kickstarter campaign.
The other news is that we’ll be releasing exclusive video clips and soundtrack MP3s over the next few months as we’re finishing Urbanized. But these pre-release clips will only be available to our Kickstarter backers. So if you want to see and hear the film as it’s being finished, back the project!
UPDATE: Our Kickstarter campaign is now over, and we are not accepting pre-orders for the Design Film Trilogy. We’ll be offering a small number of the Trilogy boxes for sale at the end of 2011, so please get on our email list and we’ll keep you posted.
Categories: Film News, Helvetica, Merchandise, Objectified
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Friends, we’ve started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to help finish Urbanized. Kickstarter is a new crowd-funding platform that allows people to support creative projects by “backing” them with anything from $1 to $5,000, while getting great art and experiences in return.
Some of the rewards we’re offering to backers of Urbanized include downloads and DVDs of the finished film, a new Urbanized T-shirt designed by Build, the limited-edition Design Trilogy box set (featuring the “Neue” director’s cut of Helvetica), and even private screenings of Urbanized for your group or company, hosted by director Gary Hustwit.
The Kickstarter page also features a video with the first taste of footage from the film, so give it a watch and help us get this film up on the screen! And browse around too, there are hundreds of great new creative projects there.
UPDATE: We made our funding goal! Thanks so much to everyone who backed the project.
Categories: Film News, Merchandise
0Our friends at Generation Press in London, the folks who are screenprinting the limited-edition Urbanized prints, sent us a phone snap of the finished prints today! Nice….
They’ll ship next week, get your orders in.
Categories: Merchandise
1Ladies and gents, our friends at Build have designed four limited-edition screenprints for Urbanized! The four prints each represent facets of urban design like public space, housing, mobility, and infrastructure.
Numbered edition of 100. Get more details and order one in the shop now, or order the set of four and get a thank you in the film’s credits!
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Luke Geissbühler and Gary Hustwit atop a heliport in Santiago, Chile.
Hello friends, just wanted to give you a quick update on Urbanized. We’ve been crazy busy the past six months, traveling and filming all over the world, meeting some amazing people, and getting what I think is some incredible footage. We’re still working on getting a “real” website up for the film, and a trailer, and we’re knee-deep in editing, and… well there aren’t enough hours in the day. Suffice to say that we’ve done extensive filming in a dozen cities on four continents, and we still have at least another six trips to go. We’ll be detailing some of the people and projects we’ve been filming when we launch the real site, within the next 30 days. But my Twitter feed is still the place to get the latest updates and other musings.
How can you support Urbanized? Well, it’s pretty simple. Urbanized is a totally independent project, funded mainly by the revenue from Helvetica and Objectified. So the easiest and best way for you to support the new film is to buy merchandise from the previous films. If you’d like to help out now, you can purchase any of these fine items (they make great gifts, too):
There are less than 20 of these limited prints left, so get them while they’re around. If you’re anywhere in Europe, you can order DVDs from our UK Webshop.
Another way to help if you’re in North America or the UK is to buy or gift a digital copy of Helvetica or Objectified from iTunes.
Thanks again for supporting the film and following along on this journey with us, and I’ll have more news soon.
Cheers,
Gary
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