What culture would you like to stick on your letters?
We're feeling quite flattered this morning because the Royal Mail have revealed that in drawing up their new series of they were partly inspired by the Culture Show's Design Quest. In an interview with , Julietta Edgar of the Royal Mail described how they had taken the 50th anniversary of the Mini as a starting point but wanted to broaden the series out, "We also looked at the Â鶹Éç culture programme on design classics to see what was making their top ten and top 20. We wanted to make sure that we got a mixture of different types of design so that we had different representations of where the British had made an impact."
It's interesting what they have kept in and left out from our full list. The London Underground map makes the grade, as does the Spitfire and, of course, the Mini. What's missing are the less photogenic or more controversial items - the Catseye, Tomb Raider and that source of moral outrage Grand Theft Auto, all of which made our final top 10.
The other memorable vote we've run in the past was for Britain's greatest Living Icons. Do you think we should approach the Royal Mail about making them into a series or should we think about doing something altogether different? What series of cultural stamps would you like to have available for your letters?
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