Monuments – Team GB / Vancouver 2010

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Recently I’ve been continuing my work with UK Sport (see British Weather). I was asked to design the graphics for Team GB’s Skeleton team ahead of Vancouvers Winter Olympic Games. Blackroc is a team of engineers developing innovation specifically for Great Britains Skeleton team. Skeleton is a winter sport where one person races head first down the bobsleigh track on a sled at up to 160km/h, athletes face up to 6G’s around the tracks corners; which I’m told is more than fighter pilots experience. UK Sport approached me to design the applied graphics for these new innovatively enginnered sleds.

Monuments (Winter Olympic Design)
With the Winter Olympic design I played further with the BlackRoc name; the idea is that the sled isn’t just a sled, it’s more than that; it’s a Monument. A monument to innovation, ambition and success. A Monument that is made of BlackRoc.

Each athletes sled features their own portrait, drawing inspiration from the sleds innovative engineering these portraits where created using 3D-mapping scanners to give the look and feel that the portraits are set in a futuristic stone; heroic, olympian and monumental.

If your interested in seeing the sleds in action tune in to see the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games on the 18th and 19th of February when Team GB competes in the Skeleton events.