Olympic Mascots

http://russiatrek.org/sochi2014

Olympic mascots and Designs


There were many incredible sights and sounds during the 2014 opening ceremony in Sochi. Some of the biggest and most talked about spectacles were the olympic mascots.

Organisers of Sochi's opening ceremony decided to use three giant, stuffed animal like mascots, featuring a polar bear; a leopard and a hare. Some mascots in years past were a little too over the top; the ones used in Sochi looked rather inviting.

http://www.archilovers.com/s1214/a-little-history-of-olympic-mascots

The Olympic mascots are fictional characters usually an animal native to the area or human figures, who represent the cultural heritage of the place where the Olympic and Paralympic games are taking place. The mascots are often used to help market the Olympic Games to a younger audience, in particular children.

Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France the Olympic Games have had a mascot. The first major mascot in the Summer Olympic Games was Misha in the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow.

Alice and Wonderland Mascot Inspiration 

Authors own
the cat 

Authors own
Macaw Initial ideas

Alice in Wonderland the film and book is a great story just because of its recognisable characters such as:

• The mad hatter
• the white rabbit
• the queen of hearts
• chesire cat
• the caterpillar
• Jabberwocky

Authors own random character design 

Authors own
character Design 

Character Design
Authors own

• What mascots need to be in order to be successful ?
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• fun
• attractive
• bright
• engaging
• iconic
• can be made into a toy
• cute
• smiley
• nice size and shape etc
• Designing mascots isn't an easy process as there are loads of things to take into consideration but I plan on linking all three elements, the torch, flame and mascot. 

Evaluation 

What went well?

The research stage for me went well just because I was able to use my previous knowledge and experience with mascots to help me. The research to what mascots are comes with many different types of media i.e. blogs, youtube, google, books and journals. Therefore I was able to see what exits and what gap I need to aim for to make my  design successful.