2010 Vancouver Olympic Medals

Unlike the summer Olympics the medals at the winter Olympics are different each games and designed by the host country. The medals for this winter games are the most unique yet -- I'm not just saying it because I am a proud Canuck.

In an Olympic first, each medal will be unique, featuring part of an image hand cropped from a master artwork by Corrine Hunt, a Canadian designer and artist of Komoyue and Tlingit heritage based in Vancouver, B.C. A silk scarf with the entire design will be presented to the medallist, enabling them to see how their medal connects with those awarded to other athletes at the Games.

Also for the first time, the medals are not flat. Instead, they have an undulating surface intended to represent the West Coast landscape of mountains and waves and drifting snow. Canadian industrial designer and architect Omer Arbel, also of Vancouver, created the innovative undulating design of the medals, which were struck nine times each to achieve the distinctive look as part of a 30-step medal fabrication process.

At 500 to 576 grams each, the medals are amongst the heaviest in Olympic and Paralympic history. The production of the medals is green as well, as the base metal alloy was made from scrap circuit boards, diverting 6.8 metric tonnes from landfill.

Visit this site for more detailed images.

Veer

Veer Contest Submission from J.D. on Vimeo.

Congratulations to J.D. Busch from the Dallas office for winning Veer's logo competition. The project was to recreate the company's logo with common object and without using a computer. J.D.'s video beat out over 1,000 other entries. You can see the winners here.

3D Video Projections

The holidays are just around the corner and here's a cool alternative to those strings of Christmas lights (no need to detangle those chords).

NuFormer Digital Media is a multimedia firm from the Netherlands. Their work is simply mind blowing!

http://www.nuformer.nl/en/

Photoshop gone wrong

Photoshop is every designer's fix-it-all. I use this tool all the time to make anything look better. But what happens when a simple touchup goes overboard? This Ralph Lauren ad has made this model's waist smaller than her head! Someone give her a cheese burger!

Click here for more Photoshop awesomeness...

P A P E R G R A P H I C S

Check out this super papergraphic designer [Yulia Brodskaya] here.

Dig digg

Visualization models for digg data. Live and 'historic' data on the activity at digg.
http://labs.digg.com/

Interactive Inspiration

With all of the interest in interactivity, data/information presentation, display walls etc. going on in the office, this site could be really useful to a lot of you.
http://adnxtc.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/visualisation-de-donnees-quelles-sont-les-differentes-approches-possible/