... to the ICONS newsletter. It features worldwide coverage of the ICONS launch, new celebrity icons, visitor statistics, ICONS events news from around the country and the popular ICONS teasers!
What isn’t new? ICONS’ new online collection has inspired the nation. Hundreds of thousands of people are enjoying nominating, commenting and voting for and against icons. Thousands of new nominations were received after our launch and though many are duplicates, there are already about 500 new nominations to vote on. The ICONS team has been busy posting thousands of comments on the site, too, so there is plenty to grab your interest. Oh, and check out the new quiz – you could win an iPod.
Me and My Icons puts the spotlight on individuals. Celebrities, politicians and campaigners all share with us what their favourite icons of England are.
ICONS ‘r Us! An Italian newspaper put it best when it said people in England have stopped talking about the weather, all they talk about now is ICONS! Our office has been swamped with reports of radio and TV coverage and newspaper cuttings from all over England and all round the globe, including India, Russian, Australia and USA. Spanish and Italian TV both played copy-cat and asked viewers to pick their favourite icons for each country.
The BBC’s Culture Show's search for the nation’s favourite design icons in a special TV/online poll had echoes with our own project. Interestingly, Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen nominated the telephone kiosk and Jenny Eclair the E-type Jaguar, which have already both been nominated on the ICONS site. Jeremy Paxman suggested the Spitfire, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary and is one of our first Icons of England. The winner will be chosen from the design icons finalists - the Spitfire, Concorde and the Underground Tube Map.
1001 MUSLIM INVENTIONS
2006-03-08
1001 Muslim Inventions touring exhibition launched at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry
EAST OF ENGLAND ICONS
2006-02-14
Iconic designs proposed by the East of England Development Agency were showcased at a special exhibition in Germany.
BRISTOL CENTRAL LIBRARY CENTENARY
2006-03-16
Bristol Central Library is celebrating its Centenary and is offering free tours to the public on 16 March and 20 April.
Are you keen to help us paint a portrait of England? Give us details of stories/documents/photographs that you could contribute. This will help us illustrate different icons, particularly some of the hundreds of nominations we are receiving from you every day. If you send or email us photographs, please only send those you have taken yourself. We also need you to give us written or emailed permission to use the photograph for the life of the ICONS website (via email or in writing). Send to info@icons.org.uk. Let us know, too, if you would be interested in becoming a volunteer photographer in your local region. Thanks very much.
Try the Lucky Dip selected option in nominations if you want to view a strange hotch-potch of choices including the V sign, Harold Wilson’s pipe, Aldlestrop station sign, the Christmas Number One, Net Curtains, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, the Garden Shed, Weather symbol on the BBC for light rainy showers, Wallace and Gromit and Knotted Handerchiefs on the beach. It is fascinating reading!
Sophie Wallis, from Rudgwick, West Sussex is our latest lucky quiz prizewinner. She was amazed at winning and is looking forward to wrestling her iPod prize from her children when they go to bed.
“I have already told lots of friends about the ICONS site and I hope
that you will have lots more interesting nominations to consider,” she
said. Sophie's favourite icons nominations include the Derby, the postbox, cricket, the tea break, the cap, the Royal Family, public schools and M25 traffic jams.
Try the latest quiz, you could win yourself an iPod too!
- You have heard of Midsomer Murders, but did you know about the woman’s torso that was found buried at an ancient monument?
- The Routemaster bus and Harry Potter ? What do they have in common?
- What was known as the ‘little tin idol’ and was stolen in 1895?
ICONS website statistics …
120,910 first time visitors
190,489 visits to the site
Almost 2 million page hits
Average number of pages visited by each visitor – 9.8
Most visited official ICON of England - 1st Cup of Tea, 2nd Routemaster Bus, 3rd Jerusalem
