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Hamburg Design Review

What is this? Since the beginning I have been asked this question countless times. From family members peering over my shoulder to look at my earliest notebook scribblings, to investors, wary of sinking their cash into a project that is - at least in appearance - so ambiguous. But The Hamburg Design Review is not ambiguous. We have a direction. I come from a family of reviewers and writers. People who, like those who chase after storms, have spent their lives leaping into 4x4 vehicles and driving towards the horizon of the mind. Chasers of ideals and ideas, those who seek to fuse styles and bridge conceptual gaps. Ultimately, to find forms of public expression that are more innovative, and more inviting.The HDR is a forum for such expression, be it serious, or silly, or written, or visual, perhaps aural. Who knows and who could even say? Perhaps, if we are lucky, we will have all of these given to us, in one heady shot of the contemporary.So what is this? Now I ask you.I ask you to pick up the salt shaker and that little wedge of lime.Let us try this shot together.The Editor x.

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Hamburg Design Review

HDR Sketch Pod #5: Imaginary Lawfare of the Juvenile Mind, Lunar Flatties and the Rodent Body Politic

February 13, 2025 • Hamburg Design Review

If you cast your mind back to our last visit, you'll recall we also said "it's been a while" and now, well, now it really has been a while hasn't it? But we're back, although we never actually went away. We just kind of huddled in a tree, guarding our sketches like the last few nuts of a harsh podcast winter, valuable fats when the shelves are empty. Anyway, now we're ready to give them up. We'll start with a story, so close your eyes and forget where you are, we're about to-- Right, they're not reading anymore...because their eyes are closed...look...that last batch of sketches came in quite late and we won't pay full price....it's shoddy...no...no, you listen....I've got a dozen cut-price back-alley next-hyphen sketch dealers who want my business and, well look, what is it about sketches like Gerbil Midterms (00:32), Football Focus (05:56), Nothing Worse (11:50), erm, Imaginary Solicitor (13:53) or Flat Whites on the Moon (20:58) makes you think I'm desperate to keep buying from you?