Friday, February 17, 2006
Great British Design Quest: The BBC's Culture Show is holding an online poll to decide the nation's favourite 20th century design icon. You have to be really careful with online audience-voted awards, of course, because they're not always definitive. The Government's English Icons project was recently hijacked by the fox-hunting brigade, for example, and the Today programme's annual Personality of the Year is regularly rigged. So do take the following Top 10 with a pinch of salt. But here's the shortlist that viewers have voted for so far:
I wonder if you can guess which of those ten I voted for? It probably wasn't the design you might first expect. No, and not that one either. I reckon that both the Routemaster and the tube map should be disallowed for being London icons and therefore not nationally representative. And Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto may be classics, but they're only of minority social interest. So it's got to be one of the other six. And which one would you pick? [go vote]
[One thing that won't be winning any design awards is BBC2's new homepage. Very swish and very arty it may be, but who the hell decided to take out all the useful content (like what's actually on BBC2 tonight) and replace it with a few programme highlights and eight choices of live streaming video instead? <taps fingers waiting for page to load> 2/10]
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