Thursday, February 18, 2010

Design at the Olympics


Say what you want about NBC's coverage (or lack thereof) of the Olympics this year, but it's hard to not get sucked into Olympic fever. In fact, I'm watching the Men's Half Pipe Final as I write this.
The Olympics are great not only for the sports, but the fanfare, branding and design, fashion, and the way the host city goes all out with new buildings.
Fast Company has a slideshow about design elements at the Olympics, and is is really interesting. Did you know the Olympics logo was picked as the winner in a contest of 1,600 entries?
The slideshow talks about the interesting new buildings, the US team's uniforms, and even the design of the medals, which are made of recovered gold, silver and bronze from computer motherboards.
What do you think about the 2010 Olympics? Check out the article here.

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