Directed and Produced By: Gary Hustwit
Distributed By: Swiss Dots (independent)
Runtime: 85 minutes

Rating: 8/10

Have you ever been in a major city and just looked at everything around you wondering how so many different pieces could have come together into a package of urbanity? Gary Hustwit has, and it’s the reason he set up to finish his trilogy of design documentaries analyzing the largest designs of them all: city development. If you have Netflix Instant and watch docs, you have probably come across the first two: Helvetica and Objectified. Both are excellent docs about fascinating subjects. I mean, this guy made a 90-minute documentary about a font type and it was compelling. Rock on. From fonts, he analyzed objects themselves, from something as complex as a MacBook Air to something as seemingly simple as a chair. Now, Hustwit has moved up several higher layers to analyze cities themselves: perhaps the most complex design structures we know, in Urbanized. Continue Reading