Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games
Scott served as managing director of the creative group for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. He was responsible for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Olympic Medals Plaza and everything from the color palette and branding to the production of the Olympic Torch Relay’s key moments and design of the Olympic Cauldron. Scott filled Salt Lake’s downtown skyline with towering building wraps; build Olympic Rings larger than ten football fields on a mountaintop, and built an Olympic torch and cauldron that were made of glass to share the Olympic's Theme, the “fire within”, with the world. Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney writes about Scott's creativity in his book Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership and the Olympic Games(ISBN 0895260840):
For all things relating to the creative functions, I turned to Scott Givens. We needed him to bring heart and meaning to the Games, achieve the scope and sweep of Sydney, but with less than a tenth of the bankroll. We needed big ideas—big enough to fill the city with the magic of an Olympic celebration. We could not afford to fund a battery of infrastructure improvements, let alone a banner for every streetlamp, so the projects we chose to fund needed to be high impact. We needed more from less. We needed water from stones. Scott went to work thinking big, bold, audacious thoughts
For their work on the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics, both Mitt and Scott were awarded the Olympic Order by President Jacques Rogge of the International Olympic Committee.
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