Announcing Linotype: The Film!

We’re kicking off the announcements for this year’s (now full-blown evening-long) film programme with a special sneak-preview screening of the highly anticipated documentary, Linotype: The Film.

Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype typecasting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, it revolutionised printing and society, yet few people know about the inventor or his fascinating machine. The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world.

Director Doug Wilson will also be hosting the screening, including a Q&A, which will follow an exclusive sneak-preview cut of the film, due to be finished in early 2012. Needless to say, we’re pretty excited to have it kick off this year’s film day lineup!

Tickets for Linotype: The Film, and the rest of our film programme, will be available on our website shortly. Check out our film page, and stay tuned to our mailing list and the @buildconf Twitter account for more announcements soon.

New Build Sponsors, Campaign Monitor and Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Good news, everyone! Campaign Monitor & Hoefler Frere-Jones have signed on as sponsors of this year’s Build.

We’re especially excited to have Campaign Monitor return after the success of Caffeine Monitor, and we’re pretty excited to get to work with them on something new and intriguing for this year’s event. Having Hoefler Frere-Jones involved is also pretty exciting, they’ll be helping us fill everyone full of tea, coffee, snacks and lunch throughout the day of the conference.

If you’re interested in getting involved with this year’s Build, check out our information pack for more on our approach to sponsorship, or email andy@buildconf.com for more information.

Right With You

Just over a week ago, we made the decision to delay the launch of the new Build website beyond our original date of last Friday. At that point, it was clear that some events still needed work and we weren’t just ready to throw the switch. So—we’ve come up with a new plan.

Our new website will go live at midday this coming Monday—at which point we’ll announce the full lineup and schedule for the conference, as well as the majority of the fringe events that will be happening throughout Build. Over the course of next week, we’ll continue to bring the rest of the week’s schedule online, resulting in passes going on sale at midday on Friday 8th April.

You can follow the countdown and sign up to the mailing list over at http://2011.buildconf.com. We’ll email you once on Monday to let you know that we’ve launched, and then again on Friday to let you know that the tickets are on sale.

We’ve made some pretty exciting improvements this year, building upon what the event has evolved into over the past two years to now fill an entire five days with everything from talks, workshops, lectures, exhibitions, film screenings, parties—and some events that are completely new to our schedule in 2011. This is what Build has been working towards since its inception, it’s exciting to see it almost fully realised and it’s even more exciting to finally get to share it with everyone next week.

It’s also worth taking a moment to sing the praises of Kyle Meyer and Stuart Johnston for working with me to get everything designed, built and tested ready for launch. Our website looks absolutely incredible this year, and it’s down to their tireless efforts and unyielding perfectionism that it’s so solid.

‘til Monday!