Design Icons - what is your favourite?
Posted by: erik scothron on 10 July 2006
What makes a great design? Form and function in harmony? What is your favourite?
Here is a thing of
terrible beautyPosted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
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I'm definitely a leg man and I prefer the mini skirt, but as a design icon this is right up there.
Do you know know why they are called wonderbras?
Prey do tell Mr Scothron.
Well..when you take her bra off you 'wonder' where her tits have gone!
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
Honestly?
Yes, come on. You know confession is good for the soul.
You won't tell anyone?
Scouts honour
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by Chillkram
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
Honestly?
Yes, come on. You know confession is good for the soul.
You won't tell anyone?
Scouts honour
Yes!
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
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Yes!
My lips are sealed.
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by Chillkram
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
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Originally posted by erik scothron:
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
I'm definitely a leg man and I prefer the mini skirt, but as a design icon this is right up there.
Do you know know why they are called wonderbras?
Prey do tell Mr Scothron.
Well..when you take her bra off you 'wonder' where her tits have gone!
I've seen Eva Herzigova's tits (in pictures of course) and I'd say they are definitely better out than in.
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
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I've seen Eva Herzigova's tits (in pictures of course) and I'd say they are definitely better out than in.
Ha! Only in pictures eh?
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by Chillkram
Regretfully so, Erik,
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by u5227470736789439
Back on Topic! Please gents!
After the Coke bottle - Mae West - more tits, I suppose - how about the Nipper painting by Francis Barraud? Of the famous terrier with the (modified from phonograph to) gramophone, which was the trade mark of His Master's Voice - the Gramophone Company in Hayes, Middlessex, and still it is today for EMI in UK, though the rights to this mark now rest internationallly [in their own territories] with JVC (Japanese Victor Company), RCA (Radio Corporation of America, formerly the Victor Comapny in Amaerica) and various affiliated sister companies still trading under EMI control in Europe and the rest of the World.
The marque at one time had, internationally, the second largest advertising budget after Coca Cola, but at least the product had a value!
Fredrik
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by Chillkram
Sorry, Fredrik, no more tits or legs, then....
Mark
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by BigH47
My kids and 6 of their mates just went to Oxegen (near Dublin) in a routemaster.
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by Chillkram
I'm not leaving this out....
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by u5227470736789439
Have all the Routemasters been decommissioned? It seems to me that with supervised entrance and exit, they could have reamained in service as a tourist transports, as "an icon" in London, more or less forever...
I like that one very much!
Fredrik
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
We took the routemaster for granted I guess (and any other double-decker for that matter)but for tens of millions of tourists hopping upstairs a double-decker for the first time is a small exciting highlight of their trip to the UK (or Dublin). It is a global icon of UK PLC.
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by Rasher
Essentially unchanged since 1958
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by kuma
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
I'm not leaving this out....
Well, then, this also needs to be included.
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
As is this:
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by u5227470736789439
A boring post script to the Dog And Gramophone trademark is that DG were the German branch of HMV before 1914, but were stripped of the right to the mark after hostilities ceased. They traded for a while with a trademark, where the gramophone existed 'senza Nipper,' but this forlourn picture was too much for them to bear, and they went to the famous yellow label after various itterations. Electrola now have the Nipper mark in Germany!
Fredrik
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
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Well, then, this also needs to be included.
It was only a matter of time
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
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Originally posted by Rasher:
Essentially unchanged since 1958
A timeless watch then?
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by Rasher
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by u5227470736789439
I once heard the quotation: 'Mae west - as pure as the driven slush.' Well it made me chuckle...
Fredrik
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
Many foreigners still think all British men wear bowler hats and carry umbrellas. Another global icon of UK PLC
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by u5227470736789439
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Dear Rasher,
Does this represent the state of the National Health Service? [Looks like a hospital instalation to me].
Prior tp the Private finance initiative at least? I think I'd rather stick with the old style myself...
Fredrik
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by Chillkram
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Originally posted by kuma:
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
I'm not leaving this out....
Well, then, this also needs to be included.
Come on then, Kuma..
Mark
Posted on: 14 July 2006 by erik scothron
Get ahead - get a hat. The Guardsman bearskin hat. Recognised the world over.
If I had been the major the photo I would have been sorely tempted to lop off the head of the little sh1t to my right.
