集体讨论会在整个设计过程中还算是容易的阶段。在接下来的几个月里，联想的设计师和工程师组成的10 人工作组在姚映佳地带领下制定了细节。火炬要轻便，因此他们借鉴了制造笔记本的经验，选用了熟悉的铝镁合金。同时运用了制造笔记本常用的橡胶喷绘处理技术使火炬的把柄容易抓握。把金属加工成复杂的弯曲形状对技术提出了很高要求。采用什么样的技术使祥云外观摸起来有凹凸感颇费一番周折。(他们最终选用了图片蚀刻技术)。虽然设计师们很早就决定以红色为主色调，但花费了几周时间才找到最合适的红色。最终确定选用与北京紫禁城大门的颜色非常相近的漆红色。

    Their design, called "Cloud of Promise," was chosen by the Beijing Olympic Committee in April from more than 300 submissions. "Winning the design contest was important for Lenovo. It's about establishing your best-of-breed design on a world stage," says Lee Green, a branding expert and corporate brand executive at IBM (IBM), a company that has used design in products and marketing for more than two decades to reinforce its global brand.

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