Monday, August 11, 2008

Olympic Mascots = Cute


Hot on the heels of the last post about the Olympics is this related post. These little guys are the mascots for the Beijing games. They were designed by Han Meilin and each features a motif reflecting an aspect of China's culture. For more info check out their wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuwa

A lot of work went into these guys. The designer went through a 1,000 possible models and suffered two heart attacks during their creation.

I think it's awesome that the designer would even work on them considering his past. He lived through some hard times during the Chinese cultural revolution and even had his wrist tendons cut during a session of torture. The ability to use his thumbs was restored after surgery.

1 comment:

mmmk said...

you'd totally be the panda