Brockley designer wins UK's top design prize for Olympic torch
Brockley designer Jay Osgerby has won UK design's most prestigious prize - Design of the Year - for his work to create the London 2012 Olympic Torch.
On 24 April at the awards ceremony, British studio Barber Osgerby were awarded the overall Design of the Year for their stunning design of the London 2012 Olympic Torch. The aluminium made torch will be carried over 8,000 miles and is perforated with 8,000 circular holes, each representing a bearer who will run with it in the London 2012 Olympic Torch relay in July.
The Olympic torch begins its tour of the country on May 19th and will pass through the borough on July 23rd.
17 comments:
Many congratulations Jay!
K. & J.
I like the grille effect but not sure about the shape.
I've always thought it was beautiful, but didn't know it was Brockley-born! Congratulations Jay. Go team Brockley!
Great news - well done to Jay and Edward
Too tall and not made of bricks.
Ah, the golden spliff! Quite right for Brockley in this day and age. Honest fare :-)
Congratulations Jay. Well deserved!
I saw you on the front of the Evening Standard this week too. Get you!
Excellent news. Well done Jay.
I saw in Matro the other day that they were making 11,000 of these torches. Isn't that about 10,999 too many for than you need for a relay?
@Ben Don't they pass the flame rather than the torch from one person to another? Otherwise they'd run out of fuel.
Many congratulations to Jay - I love the design and it's great to find out it's got a Brockley connection.
@pip Makes sense, yes. Although 11,000 seems excessive. One assumes they can be refulled...? Still, I guess that means a lot of souvenirs for charity auctions and far-distant episodes of Antiques Roadshow. (Plus a nice job for a UK manufacturer of course.)
Every carrier who wants to keep one will need to pay £200 Visa Pounds (tm) for it as well
There are 8,000 torches - one for each torch bearer.
Congrats to the designers (and the manufacturers by the sounds of it)!
Now if only I could buy a couple of sconces like that my interior design would achieve an elusive post-modern gothic look.
Even more prestigious is the D&AD Yellow Pencil BarberOsgerby they won the week before for the TipTon chair. No mention here of that?
Didn't know about it.
Here you go:
http://www.dandad.org/awards/professional/2012/categories/prod/product-design
It was also nominated for the Design of the Year at the Design Museum in the furniture category.
I must say, it on of the best chairs I've ever sat in. And I've sat down nearly every day.
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