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Tiberium 23 hours ago [-]
> 64 icons. Six rounds. One winner.
The winner is Claude
dofm 21 hours ago [-]
That is pretty standard sports/quiz show announcer tone, is it not?
ArisC 13 hours ago [-]
Yeah that was a bit lazy, updated!
SwellJoe 21 hours ago [-]
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.
scrumper 23 hours 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 22 hours ago [-]
Voting for a anglo-FRENCH design above the union flag! No contest there (despite the Concorde being a great bit of kit).
scrumper 22 hours 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.
jonathaneunice 5 hours ago [-]
The Mini, all day, every day. But many other great options along the way!
blululu 21 hours ago [-]
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.
ArisC 13 hours ago [-]
What's sad is that though (as this demonstrates) the British punch way above their weight in design, they make so many bad decisions! Look at council estate signature, for instance...
I have lived outside the uk now for the majority of the years of I have been able to drive.
The winner was a foregone conclusion, transport signage everywhere else I’ve lived and driven extensively other than the uk is a patchwork mess that has clearly had exactly no thought put into it.
jstanley 23 hours ago [-]
Pretty cool, but it always ends on Spitfire vs Mini and I don't know how you decide.
scun 22 hours ago [-]
I heard you can put a Merlin in a Mini if you remove the front seats
NordStreamYacht 19 hours ago [-]
Easier to buy a classic mini and drive it around than a spitfire.
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!
dofm 21 hours ago [-]
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.
gherkinnn 23 hours ago [-]
Spitfire or the Underground chart?
Wisdom says underground but the heart screams Spitfire.
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.
spankibalt 20 hours ago [-]
Damn, quite some brutal matchups! My eternal champion spits fire, runner-up is the Mini. :)
heybmac 22 hours 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.
vrnmh 23 hours ago [-]
The winner is teapot. 2nd is mini skirt
ascorbic 22 hours ago [-]
Not many things make me feel particularly patriotic, but this is doing a pretty good job
t1234s 23 hours ago [-]
McLaren P1 should be on that list
etcetcetcetceta 6 hours ago [-]
that wouldn't even crack my top twenty British designed cars, let alone this list.
mauvehaus 4 hours ago [-]
Yeah, the McLaren F1 is iconic and remains fresh-looking today. The P1 is but another mid-engine hybrid hypercar among many. Similarly, the D-type Jag is a better-looking car than the E-type, though I'll grudgingly admit that it's probably less iconic. The omission of anything by Lotus on the bracket is just outrageous though.
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ssl232 23 hours ago [-]
Spitfire vs Concorde in my final, and Concorde won.
robotmay 22 hours 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 22 hours ago [-]
Really enjoyed this, well done
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dm319 22 hours ago [-]
UK road signs won for me. Something about the type-face, colours and design.
lowbloodsugar 23 hours ago [-]
Spitfire. All day every day. Just don't forget Miss Schilling's orifice.
scrumper 22 hours 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.)
FridayoLeary 20 hours ago [-]
Two interesting choices. The Tube map is on the list. It's been massively downgraded in recent years, becuase the people updating it have no appreciation of what made it great. Here's a tip; if it's not a train and it doesn't go underground then it shouldn't be on the map.
The Union Jack is another interesting choice, because these days apparently it's a racist symbol.
Angel of the North is another interesting choice, becuase i've been there and it's the most overrated, featureless lump of metal ever. Cool that they made it I guess, but they could have done more imho.
kypro 21 hours 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.
onevsall 21 hours ago [-]
Same winner, and I've never bren to Great Britain. I do not like these. I prefer tier lists where a lot of these would be S tier.
ArisC 13 hours ago [-]
I mean, almost all these are S tier! But there's something a bit... basic... about S tier lists.
Transformanshen 23 hours 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
The winner is Claude
EDIT Agh now Range Rover v Mini? What do you want from me!?
The winner was a foregone conclusion, transport signage everywhere else I’ve lived and driven extensively other than the uk is a patchwork mess that has clearly had exactly no thought put into it.
mini FTW
Wisdom says underground but the heart screams Spitfire.
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.
The Union Jack is another interesting choice, because these days apparently it's a racist symbol.
Angel of the North is another interesting choice, becuase i've been there and it's the most overrated, featureless lump of metal ever. Cool that they made it I guess, but they could have done more imho.
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.