The Gift of Life Baton
A new symbol for organ donation, The Gift of Life Baton – designed and created in Western Australia – will travel the world from Perth to Dresden for the World Transplant Games 2025.
The Baton was launched in October 2022 at Olympic House in the presence of IOC President Thomas Bach by the Australian Ambassador to Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Germany, Mr Phillip Green.
The Baton was designed by Form Designs Australia, an industrial design company based in Perth. The Baton is a gift by the Australian Government and Transplant Australia to the world transplant community. The baton is designed to act as a universal beacon between each future World Transplant Games and is the culmination of a six-year dream.
At the Closing Ceremony of the 2023 World Transplant Games in Perth, Australia, it was handed over to Dresden for the World Transplant Games 2025 in Germany.
The organizers of the WTG2023 in Perth wanted to recognize all donors through a baton, one which would be embraced by any country where it was displayed and one which would inspire more people to support donation through registering or speaking with their families. It needed to have universal acceptance.
It developed a brief working with Media Junction’s Jason Pearce. Jason was ideally suited to help bring the concept to life having had a heart transplant for 5 years. From there Form Designs Australia was chosen to bring the project to life.
Principal Edward Khoury explained: “Form Designs Australia were honoured to be involved in the development of this important, iconic symbol. It was with great pleasure that we could be part of this initiative supporting the Gift of Life.
“Form Designs have been involved in industrial design for four decades and have developed many global products but nothing as remarkable as this.”
