Design classics

The Royal Mail has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the best of British design, partly to encourage more people to get into stamp collecting.

I think these are a great bit of design in themselves, illustrating classics such as the Mini, red phonebox, Penguin paperback and anglepoise lamp in a space no bigger than, well, a postage stamp.

And the Guardian has gone one further and mocked up a few other design icons it would like to see dropping through our front doors...