Urbanears is headed to Göteborg this summer for Way Out West, one of Sweden’s most anticipated summer music festivals.
Drop by the merchandise section to check out our Pop Up Store and try out some of our headphones, including the newest member of the Urbanears family, Zinken.
The store will be open during festival hours, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 am from August 9 to 11.
Hope to see you there!
Zinken is finally here. Check it out in action in this video.
NOTE: Voting for your favorite color on Facebook is now closed! Thanks to all of you who voted. Teal was the shade you'd most like to see back in stock.
Have a favorite Urbanears color that was discontinued? Now's your chance to bring it back to life as part of our Fall/Winter 2013 collection.
We've collected some shots of the colors you're requesting the most in the album above. Click through it, find your favorite and vote for it on our Facebook page.
And don't forget to tell your friends to vote - the more votes your color gets, the better your chances are of getting your hands on your favorite shade.
You asked for it, you got it!
Last month, we gave you a chance to vote for your favorite Urbanears color in the Bring it Back Color Challenge on our Facebook page. The result was overwhelmingly green, with Teal topping the charts as the color you wanted to see back most.
So for you, dear Teal fans, we’ve restocked our online shop with the Teal color across all four of our Urbanears models. Go on, get them before they are gone again.
Now that you’ve become a bit more familiar with the look and feel of Zinken, we thought we’d tell you more about how it sounds. Some words of warning though: you’ll have to hear it to believe it.
During the testing phase of Zinken, we spoke to a wide variety of DJs – those who play to sold out arenas and to those who only dream of making it big time. We found that not only were they looking for a headphone that was comfortable to wear, but also comfortable to listen to for hours on end.
Zinken is designed to provide superior noise isolation so that it excels in DJs environments, while bringing you a sound that’s relaxed and warm, making your listening experience comfortable and enjoyable. To achieve this, our sound engineers tweaked the sound so that it comes as close to an ideal sound curve as possible. To get into specifics, Zinken’s custom-designed 40 mm dual diaphragm drivers are finely tuned to provide amazing sound across the entire frequency spectrum, with slight adjustments to the low and high frequencies.
But even if you’re not a DJ, Zinken is still great for everyday listening. We can confidently say that these are headphones you will never want to take off.
But don’t take our word for it. Pick up a pair on July 16 to find out exactly what we mean.
And be sure to check back next week. You might just get a chance to get your hands on a pair before everyone else.
Love your Plattans?
Help make them T3's Music Gadget of the Year by voting in the T3 2012 Gadget Awards.
The competition, hosted by the UK's leading consumer tech lifestyle website, invites you to vote for your favorite technologies of 2012 across 19 different categories.
Voting is open until July 18, so get yours in before it's too late. Your vote could make Plattan part of gadget history!
Our friend in Thailand sent over these amazing images of the Ash store on the outskirts of Bangkok. Check out the Urbanears chandelier in the photos! You can find the Ash store here: Rm 2304, 2nd Fl Fashion Galleria, Mega Bangna 39 Moo 6 Bangna-Trad Rd., Km.8 Bangkaew, Bangplee, Samutprakarn, 10540 Thailand
You can find the Ash store here:
Rm 2304, 2nd Fl Fashion Galleria, Mega Bangna
39 Moo 6 Bangna-Trad Rd., Km.8
Bangkaew, Bangplee,
Samutprakarn, 10540
Thailand
Our friends in Shanghai were inspired by the Urbanears statue video we made a few months back, and decided to make their own. Take a tour of Shanghai through the eyes of Urbanears!
What do you get when you ask kids to review music? Find out on this Noisey produced video, featuring Urbanears Plattan headphones.
Check out who's playing at this year's Berlin festival!
If you are in the Austin neighborhood this March and attending SXSW be sure to stop by the House of Creatives Ranch. A ton of activities will be taking place, and of course, we'll be there! For more information visit: thehouseofcreatives.com
In line with the 62nd Berlinale the documentation „Marina Abramović. The Artist is Present“ by Matthew Akers debuted in Europe last Saturday, 11th February 2012. The movie revived Abramović`s famous silent performance „The Artist is Present", that was presented at MoMa in 2010. During the European premiere in KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin the artist and her guests performed "Silent Party" - a mute get together.
To underline the impressive silence Urbanears' popular headphone Plattan was part of the performance and was worn by the visitors as well as by Marina Abramović herself.
Check out the Urbanears Plattan featured in Noisey.
Urbanears is excited to announce our first ever retail endeavor, located at Boxpark – the world’s first pop-up mall. Located next to Shoreditch High Street Station in London, U.K, Boxpark is an exciting new approach to retail, as the entire complex is made out of shipping containers. Much like the Urbanears philosophy of using unexpected materials in new and different ways, using shipping containers as modular retail units is what attracted Urbanears to the Boxpark concept.
Designed by 42architects, the store is focuses on the contrast between the highly colorful products and a monochromatic, white interior. The back wall is made of a backlit Perspex frame, illuminated by an RGB Led light, which responds to the sounds in the shop and shifts between the seasonal color palettes of the Urbanears headphones. At night, the shop becomes a colorful beacon for the partygoers and visitors of Shoreditch and Brick Lane. All the headphones on display are available for customers to try on and plug in to their own mobile devices.
Urbanears has many events planned for the Boxpark store throughout the coming year, for more information on these events please sign-up for the Urbanears newsletter, located on this website.
Another day, Another Pop-Up Store is a concept store created by MadeMyDay, and is located in Berlin Germany. You can purchase Urbanears headphones in a variety of different colors, so if you're in the neighborhood be sure to stop by.
Open until January 7th
Monday - Saturday 12:00-19:00
Berlin-Mitte, Torstrasse 66
Happy birthday to you. Happy bithday to you. Happy birthday dear Plattan, happy birthday to you! Yup, it's Plattan's 2nd birthday and we've made a video dedicated to our most beloved headphone. It features some of the most well-known sights and statues of our hometown of Stockholm, Sweden. Check it out!
If you're in London be sure to check out the window display at Selfridges, on the corner of Oxford St. and Duke St.
What an amazing night! Thank you to everyone who attended our party at The Weinmeister Hotel on Thursday, July 7th, and thanks to Festa Med Killar, Robin Van Der Kaa and Tom Trago, who were the night’s DJs. Thank you also to the wonderful staff at The Weinmeister Hotel.
Urbanears Plattan headphones were used at the Augustin Teboul Installation, during Berlin Fashion Week.
Urbanears was at the Lovebox Festival, held at Victoria Park in London, July 15th-17th. Here are some photos from the event, including some well-known faces such as Snoop Dogg, Beth Ditto, Debbie Harry, Warren G, Ziggy Marley and more.
Thank you to everyone who voted for us for Stora Designpriset. Ultimately we didn't win the "big" prize, but we did win People's Choice—which we think is even better.
Thanks everyone!
Check out the new product videos featuring Urbanears headphones. Feel free to pass them on to your friends, family, enemies and pets on Facebook, Twitter or anywhere else relevant. It's all about sharing the love.
This came through the other day and has been all over the web already. Great creative, great song and brand new shoes straight out the oven. And some Red Plattans to top it off.
Watch it again, get the kicks, download the song and sink in to the rest of the story here.
Here’s a little sneak peak behind the scenes of the recording of our spanking new Urbanears films. We made them to explain our products’ unique features and spread the word. You find them under each specific product or on our Vimeo channel. Feel free to spread them around the world wide web.
At www.etsy.com we found this amazing remake of our popular Plattan headphone, we absolutely love it!
-Using a brand new pair of Urbanears Plattan Headphones I added faux whipped cream and sweets to each ear to sweeten up your music. So now you can rock the coolest headphones on your block with these babies.
Included are the standard Urbanears plug extensions since there are no standards. Also there is a Zound plug which really is a socket that allows your friend to plug into your earcap and listen to the same thing you are!
Urbanears sponsors The Soul Searchers!
-The Soul Searchers are group of friends, that come together for long and enduring rides, sometimes only for a weekend trip that takes us to a coffee shop out of town. we love cycling, we breathe it, drink it and eat it, and be assured, we all ate it at some point. nonetheless we will eat it again, because we are passionate about cycling in every which way.
-Here is some impressions on who we are, well some of us, as we are growing steadily as a community of likeminded people.
So the last Colors party in Gothenburg just took place, they had live Tattooing and the great band "Helt Off" together with famous swedish rapper Timbuktu played live. It was crazy, sweat dripped from the ceiling, people danced and laught and above that the best multicolor dressed people got Urbanears headphones! Now how about that folks, what more can you ask for at a party!?
Urbanears @ Grast in NYC a newly opened themed boutique inside the subway!
-The interior design cleverly maximizes the shallow and long space. Shelves suspended from cables keep the t-shirts organized and make browsing easy. The perimeter walls are lined with green acoustical fabric panels which help to reduce the noise from the nearby trains. One other feature of the interior is it’s the only shop in the subway with air conditioning.
We spoke with Jun, the store manager who mentioned that they are currently working on a new collection of shirts with some icons of the NYC graffiti scene. The collection will be inspired by the subway system.
Obviously when Canadians do something they do it all the way. We are speechless and filled with warmth and happiness towards our Canadian friends while looking as this little piece of pure art. Thank you M5 store in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada!
We salute you!
Okay, when club Colors in Gothenburg said they had a pretty cool club theme by dedicating every club night to one color they definitely got our attention.
As you all know Urbanears is all about color, design and fun, what better way then to be a part of this really cool concept then to add our headphones to the party! If you are in Gothenburg today Wednesday or next Wednesday on the 25th be sure to visit this place and get you're groove on! Be sure to wear red tonight and you might be one lucky winner of a Urbanears headphone! If next Wednesday is your club night you can get crazy because club Colors is going Multicolor, good things will happen!
Check out www.colorsgbg.com for all info!
Also check www.streetfashion.se.
Photographer is Tobias Martinsson - www.tobiasmartinsson.se
When one of our favorite magazine asked us to be part of the Wired Popup Store in NYC we of course said yes!
The result came to be the Urbanears Tanto Multicolor. While normally only available in 14 solid color options, the WIRED exclusive version of the TANTO is multicolored. Constructed at random, each separate component is a different color, and you won’t know what you get until you buy it and open the box. Just 220 were made and every pair is one of a kind.
http://www.wiredstore.net/product/361-urbanears-limited-edition-tanto-headphones-exclusively-for-wired