Best of British Design

Tiberium•about 2 hours ago

> 64 icons. Six rounds. One winner.

The winner is Claude

TripleDylan•27 minutes ago

Hard choices for me, I ended with the Harrier Jump Jet and the Anglepoise Lamp as my finalists. I'm a little sad to see the exclusion of British audio equipment such as the naim Audio NAP 250!

ascorbic•18 minutes ago

Not many things make me feel particularly patriotic, but this is doing a pretty good job

scrumper•about 1 hour ago

Concorde vs. the Union Flag? In the round of 64? Bah. Impossible to continue.

EDIT Agh now Range Rover v Mini? What do you want from me!?

bearbin•about 1 hour ago

Voting for a anglo-FRENCH design above the union flag! No contest there (despite the Concorde being a great bit of kit).

scrumper•about 1 hour ago

Well chief designer was a Brit but yes that is a fair point. I went with Concorde, rationalizing that the flag is more an evolutionary agglomeration than a conscious piece of design. It's a weak argument I know.

gerdesj•about 1 hour ago

I ended up with two bridges in the final which is quite strange for the owner of an IT firm, but I did study Civ Eng, 27 years ago.

heybmac•about 1 hour ago

Best of lists are always tough. In this case, is it: most iconic, most effective, most influential? I feel this way about film lists, too. The most interesting conversation is not what is the best picture, but which & how parameters are weighted: novelty, craft, cultural zeitgeist, etc.

jstanley•about 2 hours ago

Pretty cool, but it always ends on Spitfire vs Mini and I don't know how you decide.

scun•about 1 hour ago

I heard you can put a Merlin in a Mini if you remove the front seats

kypro•15 minutes ago

Surprised myself a bit with the pillar post box being my winner.

I love the British phone box too, but I think because my childhood neighbourhood was built in the 80s I never really saw the traditional red phone boxes when I was young. They were all these, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KX_telephone_boxes

The post boxes are lovely though and remind me of my England more than any of the others.

gherkinnn•about 2 hours ago

Spitfire or the Underground chart?

Wisdom says underground but the heart screams Spitfire.

robotmay•35 minutes ago

Mallard (and the rest of the A4 class, though that blue is my favourite livery on any of them) will always be the best for me, but I do love steam locomotives. It's utterly beautiful whilst also being extremely good at its role, and that's the definition of design I believe in.

So much of modern design, particularly vehicles, is missing _something_. Maybe it's the lack of hand-rolled panels and everything being slightly too perfect, or maybe we've just lost a bit of that pizazz over the past 100 years.

orf•35 minutes ago

Really enjoyed this, well done

t1234s•about 2 hours ago

McLaren P1 should be on that list

ssl232•about 2 hours ago

Spitfire vs Concorde in my final, and Concorde won.

dm319•about 1 hour ago

UK road signs won for me. Something about the type-face, colours and design.

vrnmh•about 2 hours ago

The winner is teapot. 2nd is mini skirt

lowbloodsugar•about 2 hours ago

Spitfire. All day every day. Just don't forget Miss Schilling's orifice.

scrumper•about 1 hour ago

Hers is quite a story. I think my favorite part of it was when she refused to marry her future husband until he had also won an award for lapping Brooklands at over 100mph on a motorbike, something she had already achieved. (Another lovely detail is that she used her racing motorbike to cross the country from airbase to airbase installing her orifices on Spitfires.)

Transformanshen•about 1 hour ago

In this bracket my choice invariably comes down to the Spitfire versus the Mini, and I always favor the Spitfire, as the Mini reminds me of the terrible parking

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