Best of British Design(best-of-british-design.vercel.app)
40 pointsby ArisC2 hours ago19 comments
  • TripleDylan3 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!
  • Tiberiuman hour ago
    > 64 icons. Six rounds. One winner.

    The winner is Claude

  • gerdesj24 minutes 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.
  • robotmay11 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.

  • orf11 minutes ago
    Really enjoyed this, well done
  • scrumperan 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!?

    • bearbinan hour ago
      Voting for a anglo-FRENCH design above the union flag! No contest there (despite the Concorde being a great bit of kit).
      • scrumperan 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.
  • heybmac29 minutes 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.
  • jstanleyan hour ago
    Pretty cool, but it always ends on Spitfire vs Mini and I don't know how you decide.
    • scunan hour ago
      I heard you can put a Merlin in a Mini if you remove the front seats
  • gherkinnnan hour ago
    Spitfire or the Underground chart?

    Wisdom says underground but the heart screams Spitfire.

  • 26 minutes ago
    undefined
  • t1234s2 hours ago
    McLaren P1 should be on that list
  • dm319an hour ago
    UK road signs won for me. Something about the type-face, colours and design.
  • an hour ago
    undefined
  • ssl232an hour ago
    Spitfire vs Concorde in my final, and Concorde won.
  • vrnmhan hour ago
    The winner is teapot. 2nd is mini skirt
  • 2 hours ago
    undefined
  • lowbloodsugaran hour ago
    Spitfire. All day every day. Just don't forget Miss Schilling's orifice.
    • scrumperan 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.)
  • Transformanshenan 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
  • djohnstonan hour ago
    [dead]