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Totally agree with you about StMartins and the mock kudos imbued on the right accolytes. There were some really talented people in my year who quietly get on with being amazing designers... Huw Morgan at GTF, Matt Rudd, Rob Andrews at R&D&Co to name a few, but overall there was this cliquely "Cool us" vibe that meant many talentless wodges got the attention and the limelight.
Having spent three years there I can testify that it was a total pile of over-rated shite. Most people I speak to from that period say the same thing too.
As for Tomato though... nah, I just can't see it. Its not jealousy. I see that some things they did were valuable and interesting, and it was pioneering to get Skyscraper out there for sure... kick started the new wave of studio-focussed book publishing. But so much of what they did was actually infantile shite I think. It was meaningless daubing. I think they very quickly got to playing with how far they could take the piss. I was taught by Dirk Van Dooren in my third year and just found I fundamentally disagreed with almost everything he ever said, so maybe that discoloured my opinion of the group, I don't know.
Does nobody remember how great Fuel were at the time? Fuel were about a million times more interesting than Tomato, and their self-publication projects predated, and ran rings around Tomato's I always thought.