Best of British Design

t1234s

McLaren P1 should be on that list

lowbloodsugar

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

jstanley

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

Tiberium

> 64 icons. Six rounds. One winner. The winner is Claude

ssl232

Spitfire vs Concorde in my final, and Concorde won.

gherkinnn

Spitfire or the Underground chart? Wisdom says underground but the heart screams Spitfire.

vrnmh

The winner is teapot. 2nd is mini skirt

Transformanshen

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

scrumper

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!?

dm319

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

heybmac

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.

gerdesj

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.

orf

Really enjoyed this, well done

robotmay

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.

TripleDylan

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

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

kypro

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.

blululu

This is delightful. Feels like old early 2000s era click spam but the creator didn’t even bother to monetize it. The supermarine spitfire edging out that phone booth is a tough call. This honestly there is something kind of sad about the whole premise. Britain is still so stacked with talent, but it also feels like they’re getting brain drained hard and without an industrial culture to back it up a lot of this talent doesn’t get the same level of visibility as it did in a previous era.

SwellJoe

I mostly agreed with the crowd, but the crowd picked St. Paul's Cathedral over the Mini, and that's absurd. I've never once seen a St. Paul's Cathedral on the road, and it did not appear in either version of the Italian Job.

dofm

For me this was always going to end up being the Spitfire vs the Zebra crossing. But at one point I had to choose between the miniskirt and Tower Bridge and that was difficult.