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?

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 4 (four).  Running order: 00:32 (Facial Recognition), 06:17 (Irish Cat), 10:08 (Data Sync), 21:14 (Belpress), 25:32 (Ice Cream Crisis).

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-towers, these... these units, machinations are at play.  Afoot, even. For young father Joshua Oglesby, the extent to which things are afoot is about to become all too real. So... what do you think? Spacious, right?

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's the long anticipated return of the Hamburg Design Review's Sketch Pod, number 3 - of which the running order can be found hence: CLBAITS1 - 00:26 / CouldSoundLike - 03:05 / CLBAITS2 - 07:05 / Bookcast - 08:24 / Mars Rover - 10:10 / CLBAITS3 - 18:02 / Frisky Finance - 20:06

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 HDR's standard musical background and lack of monetary sponsorship. Enjoy xxX.