Grafik Mag

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    Grafik magazineis a self congratulatory piece of rubbish. I have to agree with Arran - same faces, same mates, same editorial but unlike Arran we have been on the receiving end of their sheer nastyness.
    We had one of our books reviewed (which i add has sold 200,000 copies in each of the 10 countries it is available in and was RIBA's book of the month two years ago) and they hadn't even opened it and we suspect, had just reviewed it from the write up by the publishers - in this months issue (following 2 years behind our book) is another piece of editiorial about an exhibition or book released by obviously someone they want to be friends with and possibly think is more influential than us, featuring all the material we had included in our book - and is virtually hailed as a masterpiece. While I have to say we were a bit upset by our nasty review - one does have to realise that not everyone is going to think you're good - but it was the fact that the review made it very clear that the book had never been opened.

    We also had several email conversations on the subject from the editor of the magazine at the time and she is, for want of a better word, a bitch, and I think her attitude towards us showed the true face of the magazine and I think it's bad for the design community.

    I have read other reviews of books in that magazine too who have sufferd as badly as us - and it's really not neccessary.

    Luckily Grafik's sales are nothing to write home about and it's distribution worse - so I hear - so their piece of vitriol was lost on the 2000000 buyers of our books who obviously enjoyed it.

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