64 icons. One winner. Pick yours — from the Mini to the Tube map.
40 comments
Tiberium2 days ago
> 64 icons. Six rounds. One winner.
The winner is Claude
dofm2 days ago
That is pretty standard sports/quiz show announcer tone, is it not?
ArisC2 days ago
Yeah that was a bit lazy, updated!
SwellJoe2 days 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.
scrumper2 days 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!?
bearbin2 days ago
Voting for a anglo-FRENCH design above the union flag! No contest there (despite the Concorde being a great bit of kit).
scrumper2 days 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.
blululu2 days 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.
ArisC2 days 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...
ArisC2 days ago
Brief write up of the stats so far: https://logos.substack.com/p/the-best-of-british-design
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