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This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Fold the willow to send affection, and cherish goodbye.

On the evening of February 20, in the melodious melody of "Farewell", the main torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics was slowly extinguished. At this Winter Olympics, countless touching and bloody moments made Xiaonan still can't help but reminisce after the closing ceremony.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

At the closing ceremony, the "ice pier" bid farewell to the audience.

It is also worth recalling the cultural and creative design inside and outside the Winter Olympic Games, designers use creativity to activate Chinese culture, so that the Story of the Winter Olympics can be felt, touchable, full of temperature, from the mascot "ice pier" to volunteer clothing, Winter Olympic stamps to torches and other designs, many of these touching ideas are from the hands of Guangdong designers.

They and these works of theirs deserve to be remembered—

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# "Ice Pier" team of 14 people

In the short film of the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, standing on the "ice pier" of the last shift, saying goodbye to everyone, a pair of innocent eyes permeated with love and reluctance, so that netizens broke through the defense again.

The "birthplace" of the "ice pier" is in the warm south, and they are a team of 14 people led by Cao Xue, dean of the School of Visual Arts and Design of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. There are 7 teachers and 7 students, and the age span includes post-60s, post-70s, post-80s and post-90s.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Part of the "Ice Pier" design team.

Cao Xue, chief designer of "Ice Pier", said: "Guangzhou children who have never seen ice and snow have super imagination. ”

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

The "ice pier" that burns all over the net.

Among them, there is Ye Ziqi, the "Maoming Boy" who is responsible for visual presentation, and Chen Feiyi, the "Shantou Sister" who is responsible for three-dimensional modeling... After 10 months of hard work, more than 20 trips to Beijing, and more than 1,000 revisions, the image of "Ice Pier" stood out from nearly 6,000 works from 35 countries and regions, and became one of the unforgettable memories of the Winter Olympics in the hearts of many people.

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#雪车头盔设计者

On the white "Snow Dragon" track of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Yin Zheng, a Chinese male steel frame snowmobile athlete, surprised the audience as soon as he appeared:

Wearing a red "Dragon and Tiger Crown" helmet, he drove the snowmobile at great speed, winding through the snow, setting a track departure record in the first round.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Chinese Player Yin competes in the men's steel frame bobsleigh event at the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 10.

The helmet was designed by Zhang Dongliang from Guangdong University of Technology. This "Dragon and Tiger Crown" helmet is inspired by the shape of the general's armor in the opera, with dragon and tiger patterns as the main design, implying "like a tiger adding wings".

"I want to spread the 'cool' Chinese culture!" Zhang Dongliang said. In the past, athlete helmets were mostly foreign brands, but he hoped to use this small link to show the world the beauty of Chinese culture.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Zhang Dongliang

In addition, Li Nan, associate professor of the School of Education of Dongguan University of Technology, also participated in the research and development of snowmobile helmets to escort the safety of the players.

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#飞扬火炬设计者

Hollow design, streamer winding, burning like a fire dragon... As the core landscape of the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch Relay, the Winter Olympic Torch called "Flying" attracted wide attention as soon as it was released.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

The Winter Olympic torch "flies".

Symbolizing the meeting of ice and fire, the winter Olympic torch, its shape is very dynamic and dynamic, like a dancing ribbon, the appearance of the torch design from the Shenzhen design team of Hong Wenming, Li Wensi, Wu Guanghao and other three main designers. They introduced the concept of nature into the torch design, taking on a torch form with vitality.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Group photo of the Winter Olympic Torch Design Team. The fourth from the right is Li Jianye, the main designer of the appearance of the Winter Olympic torch. The three main creators are from Guangdong, of which the first on the right is Hong Wenming, the third on the right is Wu Guanghao, and the third on the left is Li Wensi.

In addition to designing the flare appearance, they were also involved in material adaptation and peripheral accessory design:

Li Wensi of Meizhou was the main designer of the tinder lamp, while Wu Guanghao of Jieyang was responsible for the creation of the ritual tinder table, finding stylistic elements from the traditional Chinese bronze ceremonial vessel "Zun".

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#开幕式造 "ice" people

A drop of ink drips down, transforming into the rushing water of the Yellow River. Water condenses into ice, and the five rings of ice and snow break through the "ice" and come out... The visual presentation of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics with oriental aesthetics allowed the world to see China's artistic creativity and scientific and technological expression, and its successful realization was inseparable from the artistic power of Guangdong.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

The brilliant "Fu Cube".

Cao Yuxi, a new media artist from Nanshan, Shenzhen, and his team create a three-dimensional piece of "ice" on the bird's nest screen. Cao Yuxi, with six graduate students from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Liu Suchen, Zhang Li, Jin Shuai, Chen Zijian, Tan Wenjun and Su Mingze, has been stationed at the Bird's Nest since July last year, and after countless adjustments and calculations, he finally presented a crystal clear naked-eye 3D "ice cube" on the 10,000-square-meter screen.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Cao Yuxi team

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#冬奥邮票插画师

The commemorative stamp "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Ice Sports" issued by China Post was designed by Zhang Qiang, a famous designer in Guangzhou.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Zhang Qiang designed "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics - Ice Sports".

In three months, Zhang Qiang has revised and adjusted the artwork of the five stamps hundreds of times, striving to restore the most flexible and flowing scene of ice sports. He carefully creates when restoring scenes, "like walking on thin ice". But in the color matching, he boldly chose a warm color, making the scene open and jumpy.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Zhang Qiang and his stamp design

The "cold" theme is "hot" treatment, which is Zhang Qiang's cognition and understanding of ice and snow culture.

Coincidentally, in January this year, the United Nations Postal Administration issued a new "Sport for Peace" stamp to highlight the contribution of sport to world peace. This is the first time that the United Nations has issued a stamp on the theme of the Winter Olympics, and its designer is ruan Feifei, a Shenzhen-born "post-90s" girl, who graduated from Guangzhou University.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Nguyen Phhieu designed the "Sport for Peace" stamp.

In her design, she incorporates the traditional Chinese painting "white drawing" technique, the lines are as smooth as the flowing water of the clouds, conveying the oriental aesthetic meaning.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Nguyen Phee Fei

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#冬奥专列乘务员制服设计者

The exclusive dress design and customization for the flight attendants of this Winter Olympics is the exception of the clothing brand (EXCEPTION de MIXMIND) that has come out of Guangzhou. With the design concept of "inheritance and reconstruction", "Exception" cleverly extracts the cultural elements of Hanfu "Qufu Deep Clothing" for contemporary interpretation, and displays the new style of contemporary oriental costume aesthetics and etiquette of major countries with a retro and timeless charm.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

The uniform equipment of the Beijing Winter Olympics is eye-catching.

In addition, at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games, staff, technical officials and volunteers wore the uniforms and equipment of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Wu Hong, dean of the School of Creative Design of South China Normal University, participated in the uniform equipment review and fought side by side with the front-line designers.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Special train flight attendant attire.

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#广州 "Double Olympic" musician

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

Poster for "Together to the Future".

At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, musician Chang Shilei participated in the arrangement of "Me and You" at the "Bird's Nest". At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, he composed songs such as "Together to the Future", "We See in Beijing", and "Burning Snowflakes" for the Winter Olympics. The post-80s "double Olympic" musician from Guangzhou said: "The Olympic Games is the biggest party of mankind, and creating Olympic songs has changed my life. ”

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#闪耀冬奥的 "Bay Area Intelligent Manufacturing"

A number of enterprises from the Greater Bay Area undertook hardware and software services such as the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics and the sound and lighting of many venues, showing the unique charm of "Bay Area elements".

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

"Bay Area Intelligent Manufacturing" on the stage of the Winter Olympics.

About 10,000 square meters of LED screens at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, bringing glasses-free 3D and other visual and sound technology to the audience, built by Leyard Group and its subsidiary Guangzhou Lifeng Culture; Guangzhou Ruifeng Technology LAX, as one of the support teams of the Games, was responsible for the guarantee of the National Stadium "Bird's Nest" and the Winter Olympics related venues during the Winter Olympics; Lehman Optoelectronics and its subsidiary Kangshuo Exhibition undertook the performance props for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, the Olympic Ice and Snow Five Rings, and the 450-square-meter 360-degree super ring screen of the Wukesong Gymnasium. Provide on-site support for the ice hockey competitions and training halls of this Winter Olympics... A group of cultural and technological enterprises from the Greater Bay Area contributed to the Stage of the Winter Olympics and jointly completed the wonderful interpretation of "Chinese-style romance".

There are many Guangdong elements in the Winter Olympics, such as the Winter Olympic medal "Tongxin" hanging on the body of Jian'er, whose design inspiration is mainly derived from the concentric circle jade bi excavated from the tomb of the King of Nanyue in Guangzhou.

This Winter Olympics contains a bit of "Cantonese"! These Cantonese designs are worth reminiscing about

The Olympic medals were inspired by concentric circular jade bi excavated from the tomb of the King of Nanyue.

The unforgettable stories of Chinese culture told at the Beijing Winter Olympics are unforgettable, and these Guangdong designs, which carry deep Chinese cultural heritage and unlimited creativity, are even more impressive. Xiaonan hopes that in the future, he can also see more and more Guangdong designers on the international stage, so that the people of the world will fall in love with the "Chinese style"!

[Reporter] Sun Yujia

【Author】 Sun Yujia

【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client

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