After long, sober, consideration we have decided to end the "Christmas is coming.... " project. Simply put, in the wake of last years "Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat… if Verner Panton had ever visited us, that is where he would have sat" we couldn't see where to take the concept. We had reached a creative zenith. Mount Olympus was behind us, a distant speck on a snowy, cloudy horizon and ahead a sorry, meaningless, desert of repetition, emotional contortion and former East
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Those of you who actually read what we write rather than simply enjoying our genre redefining photography * will know that we regularly bemoan the lack of design coverage in the serious print media. All too often it seems "design" is something to be entrusted to blogs featuring sugar sweet hymns to our cuddly, snuggy-wuggy world and all backed-up by Gaussian heavy, focus soft photos. Or worse, instagram photos. And so we raise our hats and our flagons to the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine for
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Lazier than a group of sloths who've just been given the day of from slothing and told to "take it easy", the (smow)blog crew have decided to roll out the Christmas 2009 series for Christmas 2010. We're just like BBC 2. Over the next couple of weeks under the "Christmas is coming .... " heading we'll present one or the other festive gift idea beautifully wrapped up in a truly appalling rhyme. The 2009 selection can be found under "Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat...."
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