2010 Torch Design

Contours of Canadian Winters

The torch design has fluid lines and elegant form. Designers were inspired by long horizons, graceful snowdrifts and delicate shadows that form the contours of a Canadian winter landscape. The shape also emulates the journey that will be traced by the torch relay across Canada and the lines carved by winter sport, such as ski tracks in fresh snow or the line left from a skate blade on ice.

 Admittedly, I don't like this Torch as much as the Beijing one, I think the cohesiveness of the Beijing Olympic materials was what really attracted me. However, that being said the Beijing designers didn't have to design to survive the Canadian winter. I really like the way the flame emerges from it.

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