{"id":439,"date":"2008-08-20T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=439"},"modified":"2008-08-20T09:24:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T19:24:39","slug":"olympic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/olympic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting really burnt out on the Olympics. At some point in time, I thought it was a good idea to pick up a new TiVo to record the games&#8230;so now it records 2 channels at a time recording just about every Olympic event that&#8217;s broadcast on TV.\u00a0 My wife is loving it&#8230;she&#8217;s watching everything from beach volleyball to trampoline (that&#8217;s a sport?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone notice how nice the design is for these games? I have to admit that in a lot of cases, I find design in Asia to be rather cheesy sometimes&#8230;especially in their public billboards.  They just have a different taste to suit their audience. I wouldn&#8217;t call their graphic design to be so elegant as it is designed to scream out and get attention as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>But so far, I&#8217;ve been very impressed at how the graphic design has been at these Beijing Olympics. It&#8217;s been very elegant and eye-catching. I&#8217;m sure they didn&#8217;t skimp on finding the best designers to work on these games.<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbs\"><a title=\"Olympic medals\" rel=\"lightbox[olympic]\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/beijing-olympic-medals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-440\" title=\"thb_beijing-olympic-medals\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thb_beijing-olympic-medals.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Pictograms\" rel=\"lightbox[olympic]\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/beijing-olympic-pictograms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-441\" title=\"thb_beijing-olympic-pictograms\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thb_beijing-olympic-pictograms.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Olympic tickets\" rel=\"lightbox[olympic]\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/beijing-tickets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-442\" title=\"thb_beijing-tickets\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thb_beijing-tickets.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s the really high profile architecture for the &#8220;Bird&#8217;s Nest&#8221; and the giant blue Jello bubble cube thingy.\u00a0 Meh, those are a little too fadish to me. A couple years from now when the Olympic high has calm down over there, those structures will look pretty bad against the rest of the city in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting really burnt out on the Olympics. At some point in time, I thought it was a good idea to pick up a new TiVo to record the games&#8230;so now it records 2 channels at a time recording just about every Olympic event that&#8217;s broadcast on TV.\u00a0 My wife is loving it&#8230;she&#8217;s watching everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[36,35,37],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","tag-medals","tag-olympics","tag-pictographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}