Pui from HK Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Back Front Medal Design Video (WMV) Today (500 days to the opening) the design of the Beijing Olympic Medals launch at the Capital National Museum. The design incoperated with elements of the traditional Chinese jade. In the Chinese culture jade plays an important role. It brings kindness, happiness, peace and health to the people. The jade incoperated in Gold, Silver and Bronze medals are different. For the Gold medall it is a White Jade, which is the most noble one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pui from HK Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Sorry... the link of the video should be: mms://stream1.beijing-2008.org/CN/INFO/500d_jpxcp_bjjp.wmv OR go to this page: http://www.beijing2008.cn/62/82/500djpxcpbjjp.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pui from HK Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 http://en.beijing2008.cn/55/69/olympicmedal.shtml The English Page on the medal design has just updated a few minutes ago.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 (edited) None of your links work and the Bejing site seems to be down (I'm sure I've had problems with it in the past too, hopefully they'll get it sorted soon!) ---- Scrub that, seems to be working fine now. Lovely design. Understated but classy. Edited March 27, 2007 by Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rei Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 quite naif but nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ard72 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 The front look like hockey pucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Lovely design. Understated but classy. I agree. However, I thought that they would go for an octagonal shape (that being the 'good luck' bagwan shape in feng shui). And it's to bad that the fancy curlicue- grillwork gets obscured when the ribbon is put on. (I still think I had the better design.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattperiolat Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Well, first impression, best impression: I like it! I think it's a very creative and unique design! Just waiting for the torch and the cauldron now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nykfan845 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 I LOVE the jade touch. Really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfm Jeremie Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Love it! Classy, nice blending of Chinese culture and traditional Olympic medals (the Summer Games Organizing Committees have lesser freedom than those of Winter Games when it comes to medal creation). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 They are nice, but I still much prefer the old design compared to the new one, I find the new one ugly and too busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nykfan845 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 They are nice, but I still much prefer the old design compared to the new one, I find the new one ugly and too busy. That's quite a contradiction. What did the old design look like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 i am very impressed with the medal designs, very unique! Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave199 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 They are decent, I'm not blown away by it. The gold medal looks the best but I'm not feeling the colouring of the silver and bronze medal with the jade in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 That's quite a contradiction.What did the old design look like? I think this deisgn better than the new one Beijing is really not doing anything new or original with the use of jade, Albertville used glass, Lillehammer used granite and Nagano used laquer. The 6 grams of gold only is 105 euros, thats not a lot of gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nykfan845 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 I think this deisgn better than the new one Beijing is really not doing anything new or original with the use of jade, Albertville used glass, Lillehammer used granite and Nagano used laquer. The 6 grams of gold only is 105 euros, thats not a lot of gold I don't mean to antagonize you, but I just don't understand what you mean. How is using jade unoriginal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Simple, classic, and the use of jade and the clasps is a nice Chinese touch. I like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave199 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 I don't mean to antagonize you, but I just don't understand what you mean.How is using jade unoriginal? I think what Faster is trying to say is that it's not original because that they are using another stone like Jade that has already been done before with the likes of Albertville using glass, Lillehammer using granite and Nagano using laquer as Faster mentioned. I don't necessarily agree to a full extent but it is original to the Chinese culture to use jade and makes the medal much more distinctive. I just don't like the design that much but it ain't ugly or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTHarner Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 They look nice. However, medals for the Winter Games always look nicer since they have a little more lattitude as far as orginality is concerned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 I think he also means the 'obverse' side of the medal -- with the figure of Nike. Faster, I believe the Beijing version now incorporates the 'current, correct' design of the obverse, as corrected for the Athens '04 Games (showing a standing Nike figure against the Panthalikon Athenian stadium vs. the sitting Nike against the Roman Colosseum background). Probably come another 90 years or so, they will update the 'obverse' again, so even that may change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savas Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 i little correction (i sound like a smart-ass i know) it is the Panathinaikon Stadium.. it was changend by Athens 2004 the give the olympic games its original hellenic character... Nike is flying with open wings into the Panathinaikon Stadium the Stadium of the first Olympic Games of the modern era and the last Olympic Games (2004) to praise the best athletes... There is no real connection between the Games and the Colloseum, as it was not a arena of athletism but a place where violence was presented as entertainment.. The "new" design is absolutely fantastic.. The Beijing medals are very beautiful, very lice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 I think that there are better ways of repersenting Nike, I don't mind the Hellenication of the medals, I just don't like the new design, with the stadium I just think its too busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savas Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 What could be a better way of representing Nike as with open wings? Nike is the Goddes of Triumph and the medals of the past didnt show her in all of her glory...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenadian Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Not bad...very simple and classy. But I kind of wish the Summer medals had the same design freedoms as the Winter medals. There is some "niceness" to the consistant look, but at the same time, it creates a really unique statement when the design is different with each Olympiad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rav3n Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 I expected a little more of the reverse of the medal (like the Heaven Temple or the Chinese Wall), but anyway, not bad. I love a lot the place where the ribbons will be introduced, very chinese. Nice idea to use Jade, since is a very popular & representative stone from China (but anyway, nothing new, like nykfan845 said ) The front side of the medal is like i expected: from now on, the medals will use the new Athens Nike goddes design instead of the old-school Nike of Antwerp. That cloud-like shapes at the ribbons are cool, looks like this will be the Look of the Games that Beijing 2008 will use, simplistic but atractive, reminds me of Sydney 2000 look. Not bad medals, they appeared more faster that the Athens ones , i thought that they would show them up more later. Good bonus before the unveiling of the torch design & relay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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