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Trained as an architect, Arbel divides his time equally between designing buildings and objects since founding his own firm, Omer Arbel Office, in 2005. Arbel’s design is a first for the Olympics since each medal is unique. The medal’s undulating surface evokes the iconic sea and mountains of the Vancouver-Whistler landscape. Each medal is laser-etched with a cropped section of a larger artwork by Canadian artist Corrine Hunt—an orca whale on the 615 Olympic medals, and a raven on the 399 medals for the Paralympics.  Like a puzzle, it takes all of the individual medals to complete the artwork.

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