Meet the Londoners behind the 2024 Ontario Summer Games medal design
CBC
When winning athletes at the London 2024 Ontario Summer Games head home from the competition next month, they will be taking home a piece of the city with them.
This year's medals were designed by longtime London artist and graphic designer, Cheryl Radford, and produced by local shop, Nothers The Award Store.
"I think it's an honour to be chosen for something that hundreds of young kids in the [Ontario] Summer Games will have for the rest of their life," said Radford, who's lived in the city for more than four decades.
"They're going to take it home with them all over Ontario and have that memory of what they did."
Radford and the Nothers team have been waiting more than four years to see the gold, silver and bronze medals awarded at the games. They were originally made for London's 2020 Ontario Summer Games, which were cancelled due to COVID-19 lockdowns.
"Everything was on hold because of the pandemic, so it's exciting to see it finally come out," said Jen Harrison, marketing specialist at Nothers.
Four years ago, more than 600 medals were produced with Radford's design and the year 2020 etched into them. They had been kept in the Nothers warehouse, but the team recently salvaged the old medals by using an in-house process to replace the year.
"It looks great, like you can't even tell," said Harrison.
This was Radford's first time creating artwork for a medal.
After seeing a callout for medal designs from the London Arts Council in January 2020, her artistic process started as usual: walking along the Thames River for inspiration.
In her home studio, she researched old medal designs and began brainstorming the things and places she wanted to feature in hers. She said London's mix of city and nature inspired her design.
The final 2024 Ontario Summer Games medal includes images of the Thames River, London Courthouse, Museum London and Budweiser Gardens.
"The river shows all the water sports, the buildings show everything that would be played in a building, and there are the trees, which show the nature for triathlon or biking," Radford said.
"I love the sky," said Radford. "Because we should reach for the stars."
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