Hey! Long time no post....not that anyone cares....
Y'all (all two of you, if I'm even lucky to have that many readers) know about my fascination with all things
Olympic. I came across this gorgeous gallery in the NY Times:
Passing the Torch: An Evolution of Form
How could I have missed that? Maybe because it was listed in the Sports section. That's part of the paper that is the first to be thrown away. Avoid that crap like the plague. Probably because ESPN seems to be on 24/7 in my house - that is in between Nickelodeon, the Disney channel, and the History channel. But anyway, shouldn't this really have been under Arts & Design?
I've contemplated Olympic logo design and Olympic medal design on this blog. Didn't give much thought to the torches. The IOC doesn't miss a trick. Should've known to think of the torch too.
Rolling over each torch brings up a little detail regarding the torch and/or its design.
Being into branding, while not one of my favorite designs, I like that Mexico City's torch tied in with the logo of that year:
This one just makes me think "WTF???!" How awkward must that have been to carry?
This is so interesting to me because you not only have to create something visually unique and stunning, but also functional as a torch, and something that can be easily carried without weighing too much. Or, like Winter 1994 Lillehammer, be wind resistant so that it could be used by a ski jumper.
It is interesting to me that after looking at all of them, my favorite is this one with a simple, classic design:
I'm really thinking that a fun portfolio project for me might to be to design a whole Olympic package - logo to medal to torch to even uniform. Now if I could just find some time........
