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.
HDR Sketch Pod #6: Diagnosis among the Pints, Sport for Big-Hatted Men and a Leader's Heroes
Where have you been? Why no pod for time? HDR gone forever? Shut up, whingers. HDR's back again and this time the number is 6 (six). Gear up for some frankly heroic rodents in the form of the Prime Minister's demining rats. Crack a weak little beer for some Cardinal action. Get down and pop a (bag of) chili nut as the country's healthcare system hits the boozer. All this, broken down and interpersed throughout the run time in that classic HDR way, the secret recipe, ol'nonna's sauce. You get ...
13 Feb 2025
HDR Sketch Pod #5: Imaginary Lawfare of the Juvenile Mind, Lunar Flatties and the Rodent Body Politic
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 ...
24 Nov 2023
HDR Sketch Pod #4: Facial Recognition, Belpress (not what you think) and an Irish Cat
Once again, it's been a while. But gone are the days when one guy would stay home looking after the podcast while the other could go to work and support all three on a factory wage. Whatever. In this edition we ask: is there anything the IT team can't do? Can a cat have an accent? How does facial recognition actually work? And finally, what happens when an intrepid reporter gets bored on a family holiday? Thems the contents. This is the show. The big show. The Hamburg Design Review SketchPod ...
9 May 2023
Shadplex Part One: The Viewing
Welcome to Shadplex, London's newest community-based 'community' living project. Come and bask in the reflected glow of fresh windows and chrome-detailed room-for-one balconies in this break clause-free and frozen interest rate-rich paradise. This is a place where agents of the estate can be themselves, clad in slimfit, viewing properties with abandon, ordering non-romano-style pizzas... even raising families in this holy image. But things aren't always what they seem. High in these semi-towe...
18 Nov 2022
HDR Sketch Pod #3: Radio Ads, Daytime TV and a hungover Mars Rover...plus some other bits
Cast your tired mind back to those precious days, those most hallowed of days on which you convinced mum you were too ill for school. Sick, headache, dizzy - all masterfully faked, and why? So you could sit in an unnecessary blanket and watch daytime TV and soak in the waves of the radio. Culture, all of it. Look, let's keep this short, it's been a while since you heard from us at the HDR. I'd say "our bad", but it's not, it's actually all your fault. Anyway, even though you did...that, here'...
24 Dec 2021
Cracker Pull: A Christmas Unravelling
Wow! For me? It's heavy....what could it be? Years of betrayal? The instant erosion of familial trust? Goofy sushi socks? Oh my god! It's the Hamburg Design Review Christmas Special! That's right. After months of silence we're back with hot Xmas fire. Join our family in that tender space we all know so well, that little moment between the scoffing of a Christmas lunch and the discovery of some dreadful truths. As usual, IT'S ONLY LIVE ONCE, which isn't now, but it's still here with the H...
13 Sept 2021
CSI: Chess Stuff Investigators - EP1: Zurich
As far as Otto Meirtendel was concerned, his trip to Zurich, Switzerland, was about tagging along with chess's primary law enforcement body - routine stuff. HDR's special reporter would then half-arsedly pen a simple piece, file it, and collect his really quite generous rate of €0.57 per word (pre-tax). Little did he know the extent to which the road ahead of him would twist, turn and fragment, writhing kaleidoscopically until all thoughts (not least those of his aforementioned and indisputab...
5 Jul 2021
Sorry, mate...I don't have any cash on me: Episode 1.
A busy train rattles its way through London's subterranean dirt. On board, one man asks for any spare change and another tells a bold lie. 'Sorry, mate...I don't have any cash on me' (SMIDHACOM) is a story of lives intertwined and the uncomfortable foibles of very minor personal finance. Episode 1: The Bag introduces us to Angus, a young man full of Snickers Duo with a bag full of £54,000,003.65, whose day (and perhaps life) turns around his brazen denial of fact. It's a story! There's ...
5 May 2021
HDR Sketch Pod #2: A Dog, the Yoruba VTS and a Well Advertised Skeleton in the Closet.
Are park benches comfortable?No.Does it depend on who they're in memory of?No.What's the difference between suture calipers and an electronically assisted tailgate?Don't care.Where do adverts come from?Don't know. Great, well, if you're at all curious (I'm not) then you can find more detailed answers in this, the second episode of the HDR's acclaimed Sketch Pod. That's more music, more voices, more better, more right now! Enjoy. I won't. HDR xx. x
5 Mar 2021
The Cyboptical
What do I look like to you? Like a guy who knows how to write an engaging episode description? Like someone who thinks people really read this far into it? Well, if you have read this far in, then you can expect lasers, thermal vision, and an early lunch. I don't know, whatever. Join us in the near future, in New York City, as an honest man's honest day goes awry in the most unexpected way. This is a Hamburg Design Review story special, accompanied as always by the blooping bleep-work of our ...
5 Feb 2021
HDR Sketch Pod #1 : AI, Wet Barbecues and SCI-FI-ROTICA!
Is AI an instinctively political animal? Why would a man grill doggies in the pouring rain? Are you turned on by sci-fi gear? Like, sexually.... Hopefully you can find the answers to some of these in this, the Hamburg Design Review's first ever Sketch Pod. That's sketches, short stories, our first sponsor (!), and other bits, all knitted together rather artfully by the musical wool of our house band. We hope you enjoy it. The Editor,HDR xx(x)
4 Jan 2021
Eggroulette
Tired of House Party, Zoom and - so there's three - Microsoft Teams? Yes? Then you need Eggroulette in your life. What's Eggroulette? Why, it's the multi-platform, macro-micro, inter-space video-chatting service made for eggs by eggs. Need to know more? Then listen in on The Hamburg Design Review's review. Review. Re-view. Rev-you. It's shorter, sharper, and a bit rough around the edges...but it's still HDR . xx.
16 Dec 2020
Dog Galf
Ship chases. Smuggled goods. Three dimensional characters in a two dimensional setting. This is the world of Dog Galf, where import tariffs and a charmingly nuanced bureaucracy dictate events, and you've been invited in to share an educationally rollicking adventure. That's a lucky you! DG X Hamburg Design Review Inaugural Special no.2.
19 Nov 2020
Moon Love
Cresting the scientifically inaccurate lunar horizon, we find Rakkie, at her wit's end and more than a little in love. Employment domes, semi-bubbular cocktails and Earth men - Moon Love is the Hamburg Design Review's steamy audio premiere.
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