Wednesday 21 April 2010
Who loves the Earth
Waldi as work in progress, monochrome version. Text refers to a track title on Rhythmus 72 'Ostrock' album. Text will probably be removed, visually it works better as a typed page on my old red/ black ribbon typewriter.
Wednesday 7 April 2010
Waldi
Waldi was created as the mascot for Munich 72 Olympics by Otl Aicher. A Dachshund composed of the selected colours of the Games, which combined embraced the intention of the friendly 'Rainbow Games'. 'Dachs' is badger in German- the dog is shaped to hunt below ground in burrows. Much of the construction for Munich 72 used the rubble of WWII as hardcore, for the foundations from which a new Olympic city could emerge. I have cut out a template of Waldi for a small painting, the ink was running out in my printer.
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