British Videogames up for Design Awards
GTA and Tomb Raider on Design Museum shortlist.
Core Design’s original Tomb Raider (1996) and Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto series (1997-2005) are both on the shortlist for the Great British Design Quest – a search for the best in British Design, organised by The Design Museum in association with the BBC’s The Culture Show.
The Great British Design Quest looks at a pleasingly wide range of design areas - from aircraft and cars to fashion, typography and the aforementioned groundbreaking British video games.
The list of 25 designs nominated includes those icons of Britishness, the Routemaster bus (recently departed and sadly missed), the Mini and - with a little help from the French - Concorde. Iconic road maps for Britain’s motorway system and the London A to Z, along with that technology roadmap that none of us could now imagine life without - Tim Berners Lee’s World Wide Web - are also on the list.
As expected, a number of graphic design projects have made the list, including the Verdana typeface, the classic Penguin paperback and the album covers of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Peter Saville’s minimalist classic New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies.
The real welcome surprise for SPOnG is to see two classic videogames in the list, and we wish them both all the best as the competition hots up over the next month.
The oldest design in the long list is the K2 telephone kiosk, which was designed in 1926, while the Grand Theft Auto series is the most recent, with the first game in the controversial and multi-million selling series having first been designed way back in 1997. SPOnG remembers it well. As does The Daily Mail and 'Outraged from Tunbridge Wells'. Its good to see that it's now getting the recognition for being the groundbreaking work of that it was at the time.
You can learn more about the designs on the [URL=http://designmuseum.org] Design Museum website [/URL]. And to vote for your favourite, check out the online voting system on [URL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow/designquest/vote/] The Culture Show's website[/URL]. Get your votes in quick - SPOnG wants to see both these games in the next shortlist!
The Culture Show will announce the 10 most popular designs on BBC2 on Thursday, February 16, with the top three to be unveiled on the show on Thursday, March 2 and the overall winner to be announced on the show on Thursday, March 16. There’ll be the usual motley crew of TV art and design pundits (Wayne Hemingway’s gang) mouthing off on how each of the design projects in the shortlist have impacted upon their lives.
Alice Rawsthorn, director of the Design Museum, said: "Britain leads the world in design and the innovations of British designers have transformed the lives of millions of people. We want to find out what the public thinks of British design and which example of British design excellence is their favourite."
Great British Design Quest longlist
K2 telephone kiosk, 1926
Design: Giles Gilbert Scott
London Underground map, 1931
Design: Harry Beck
Anglepoise Lamp, 1932
Design: George Carwardine
Catseye, 1932-1934
Design: Percy Shaw
Supermarine Spitfire aircraft, 1934-1935
Design: Reginald Mitchell
London A-Z Street Atlas, 1936
Design: Phyllis Pearsall
Penguin paperback book, 1946-1949
Design: Jan Tschichold
Routemaster bus, 1947-1956
Design: Douglas Scott
Mini, 1957-1959
Design: Alec Issigonis
Road and motorway signage, 1957-1967
Design: Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert
Dr. Martens Air Wair boot, 1960
Design: Griggs & Co
E-Type Jaguar, 1961
Design: Malcolm Sayer + William Heynes
Mini skirt, 1962
Design: John Bates + Mary Quant
Aston Martin DB5, 1963
Design: Aston Martin
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, 1967
Design: Peter Blake + Jann Haworth
Raleigh Chopper, 1968-1970
Design: Raleigh
Concorde, 1969-1976
Design: British Aerospace Corporation with Aerospatiale
Sinclair Executive Electronic Calculator, 1972
Design: Sinclair Radionics
The Face magazine, 1981
Art Direction: Neville Brody
Power, Corruption and Lies album cover, 1983
Design: Peter Saville
World Wide Web, 1989
Design: Tim Berners-Lee
Dyson DC01 vacuum cleaner, 1993
Design: Dyson
Tomb Raider, 1996
Design: Core Design
Verdana typeface, 1996
Design: Matthew Carter
Grand Theft Auto video games, 1997-2005
Design: Rockstar Games
The Great British Design Quest looks at a pleasingly wide range of design areas - from aircraft and cars to fashion, typography and the aforementioned groundbreaking British video games.
The list of 25 designs nominated includes those icons of Britishness, the Routemaster bus (recently departed and sadly missed), the Mini and - with a little help from the French - Concorde. Iconic road maps for Britain’s motorway system and the London A to Z, along with that technology roadmap that none of us could now imagine life without - Tim Berners Lee’s World Wide Web - are also on the list.
As expected, a number of graphic design projects have made the list, including the Verdana typeface, the classic Penguin paperback and the album covers of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Peter Saville’s minimalist classic New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies.
The real welcome surprise for SPOnG is to see two classic videogames in the list, and we wish them both all the best as the competition hots up over the next month.
The oldest design in the long list is the K2 telephone kiosk, which was designed in 1926, while the Grand Theft Auto series is the most recent, with the first game in the controversial and multi-million selling series having first been designed way back in 1997. SPOnG remembers it well. As does The Daily Mail and 'Outraged from Tunbridge Wells'. Its good to see that it's now getting the recognition for being the groundbreaking work of that it was at the time.
You can learn more about the designs on the [URL=http://designmuseum.org] Design Museum website [/URL]. And to vote for your favourite, check out the online voting system on [URL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow/designquest/vote/] The Culture Show's website[/URL]. Get your votes in quick - SPOnG wants to see both these games in the next shortlist!
The Culture Show will announce the 10 most popular designs on BBC2 on Thursday, February 16, with the top three to be unveiled on the show on Thursday, March 2 and the overall winner to be announced on the show on Thursday, March 16. There’ll be the usual motley crew of TV art and design pundits (Wayne Hemingway’s gang) mouthing off on how each of the design projects in the shortlist have impacted upon their lives.
Alice Rawsthorn, director of the Design Museum, said: "Britain leads the world in design and the innovations of British designers have transformed the lives of millions of people. We want to find out what the public thinks of British design and which example of British design excellence is their favourite."
Great British Design Quest longlist
K2 telephone kiosk, 1926
Design: Giles Gilbert Scott
London Underground map, 1931
Design: Harry Beck
Anglepoise Lamp, 1932
Design: George Carwardine
Catseye, 1932-1934
Design: Percy Shaw
Supermarine Spitfire aircraft, 1934-1935
Design: Reginald Mitchell
London A-Z Street Atlas, 1936
Design: Phyllis Pearsall
Penguin paperback book, 1946-1949
Design: Jan Tschichold
Routemaster bus, 1947-1956
Design: Douglas Scott
Mini, 1957-1959
Design: Alec Issigonis
Road and motorway signage, 1957-1967
Design: Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert
Dr. Martens Air Wair boot, 1960
Design: Griggs & Co
E-Type Jaguar, 1961
Design: Malcolm Sayer + William Heynes
Mini skirt, 1962
Design: John Bates + Mary Quant
Aston Martin DB5, 1963
Design: Aston Martin
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, 1967
Design: Peter Blake + Jann Haworth
Raleigh Chopper, 1968-1970
Design: Raleigh
Concorde, 1969-1976
Design: British Aerospace Corporation with Aerospatiale
Sinclair Executive Electronic Calculator, 1972
Design: Sinclair Radionics
The Face magazine, 1981
Art Direction: Neville Brody
Power, Corruption and Lies album cover, 1983
Design: Peter Saville
World Wide Web, 1989
Design: Tim Berners-Lee
Dyson DC01 vacuum cleaner, 1993
Design: Dyson
Tomb Raider, 1996
Design: Core Design
Verdana typeface, 1996
Design: Matthew Carter
Grand Theft Auto video games, 1997-2005
Design: Rockstar Games
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TheEliteSamurai 1 Feb 2006 14:02
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Most of Apples's award winning designs are designed by British guys. I forget their names though. The ipod was most certainly designed by a British guy.