Winning poster designs highlight Chinese culture and Olympic spirit

A competition to create posters for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games has announced 20 winning designs.

The themes of Chinese cultural heritage, the Olympic spirit and staging a green, sharing and open Games run through the successful entries, according to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (BOCOG).

The poster design competition invited entries in September 2020, and closed at the end of October. A total of 1,565 works from 19 provinces were submitted — via online, e-mail and mail.

Due to COVID-19 prevention and control procedures, the contest was mainly conducted online. In order to ensure the standard and quality of submissions, the promotion of the competition primarily aimed at professional design colleges and institutions.

Industry professionals responded with high quality works in a timely manner, according to BOCOG, which added that more than 40 art and design colleges, institutions and teams had submitted works.

BOCOG said that many of the entries combined elements of both the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the three competition zones in co-host cities Beijing and Zhangjiakou, and often adopted richly creative approaches.

The 20 successful designs were selected through rounds of strict evaluation and will now be subject to revision and improvement, intellectual property inspection and approval, before being released to the public.