Organizers of the Beijing Olympic Games have launched a global campaign to solicit design proposals for the medals of the 2008 Games.
The solicitation starts on January 11 and ends on March 26, 2006, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) announced today at a press conference held in the Beijing Olympic Media Centre.
"The designs for the Beijing Olympic medals should highlight the themes of 'glory and dream' and 'faster, higher and stronger'," Zhang Ming, deputy director of BOCOG's Culture and Ceremonies Department, said at the press conference. "The medals should be the material vehicles to disseminate the Olympic ideals and the concepts of the Beijing Games, to showcase China's arts, designs and scientific and technological development. They should become the unique legacy of the Beijing Games."
Designers are encouraged to use medals for previous Games as well as the emblem and mascots of the Beijing Olympic Games for reference. Anyone interested is welcome to contribute. The request forms for proposals and other related documents, including detailed information on the design requirements (see the attachments), can be downloaded from the official BOCOG website -- www.beijing2008.cn. Some Beijing print media will publish the same forms and documents. The organizing committee of the medal design proposal solicitation will invite specialized art design institutes as well as individual designers to contribute their works.
The solicitation campaign is sponsored by BHP Billiton, the diversified minerals and medals sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games.
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