London Olympic Mascots Wenlock and Mandeville Will See You Now

Wenlock and Mandeville, official mascots for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, respectively

Anthropomorphic steel slablets born from the girders of London’s Olympic stadium. Monikers that hint at mischief and Savile Row. A flair for the digital. It all sounds like a promising recipe for Olympic mascots, those eccentric, nationalistic, and frequently controversial creatures that rise to prominence for a couple of months every couple of years. “Our original brief asked us to create a mascot which would actually engage and kind of get young people across the United Kingdom.

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