In January the Royal Mail produced these fab stamps which I have just got my hands on. Whilst hardly being a philatelist (although I did have a brief obsession with sport related stamps when I was about 10 !) I thought these were great. As a big fan of design and all that sort of thing I had to have some - but now I really don't want to actually use them. They are far too nice. I'm wondering whether they might look good in a little frame...
Apparently Royal Mail gathered a panel of experts to decide on what icons represented the best of British Design. What they came up with was the miniskirt, the spitfire, Robin Day polypropylene chair, the tube map, telephone box, the mini, penguin book, routemaster bus, concorde and the anglepoise light. Makes you proud to be British!
So what was missed off? The Paul Smith stripes is something that springs to my mind. Also as a big fan of furniture design I would have to say some of Tom Dixon's products, whilst perhaps not being classics yet - will be.
What do you think? What did they miss out?
1 comments:
Oh I'd like to see the IPod in there, well it was designed by a student at Central St Martins,
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