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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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CSI: Chess Stuff Investigators - EP1: Zurich

September 13, 2021 • Hamburg Design Review

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 indisputably ample remuneration) were blitzed...are mushed...will be yada yada.
This first episode covers Otto's arrival and rendezvous with the CSI's agents. As usual the story is bedded in a lush and newly clarinetted original soundtrack, ensuring your ultimate immersion.
Enjoy, HDR xxxx