Vexilloid Tabloid #84
Flag proportions, a letter to Dear Abby, God’s name on flags, home sewn flags, photography from Oregon’s fires, flags from a 2000 time capsule, and more.
Author: SDM
Ethnography * Technology * Design
Vexilloid Tabloid #83
Mississippi’s flag comes down, Tending veterans’ grave flags, The many uses of flag patches, Flags at the end of the Alaska Highway, Lima ≠ Quarantine, and more.
Vexilloid Tabloid #82
Flags in the Time of COVID-19, design conversation with John Cartledge, flags in the style of another, women’s suffrage flags, “Rogue States”, and much more.
Flags in the time of Covid
Flag use has long played a prominent role in times of crisis, and the Covid-19 pandemic is no exception. Here are some ways that flags are in the news and social media.
Vexilloid Tabloid #81
Flags that try to represent each one instead of everyone, re-imagining the Canadian national arms, Cincinnati neighborhood flags, quarantine and Covid-19 flags, the International Personal Flag Registry, and much more.
Alfred Znamierowski 1940–2019
Roman Klimeš pays tribute to the internationally famous vexillologist Alfred Znamierowski (1940-2019).
Vexilloid Tabloid #80
Issue 80 features an obituary for Alfred Znamierowski, a detailed rating of the design of Portland’s flag by a Russian vexillologist, and a new flag quiz by Bard and Benjamin Cosman, and many other vexi-notes.
Cincinnati Neighborhood Flags
The innovative CinciFlags project has concluded with an official flag for each of the 52 neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is an impressive accomplishment, with generally high-quality and meaningful designs with consistent style.
The MLS Iron Front Flag Flap
Above: Iron Front flag on display in Providence Park. Photo by Kris Lattimore. By Scott Mainwaring, Vexilloid Tabloid #79 For much of the 2019 Major League Soccer season, league officials were engaged in a stand-off with some of MLS’s most passionate fan groups over the league’s decision to ban display of what it deemed “political” […]
Gadsden Flag: Symbol of Resistance in Russia
Masha Gessen reported in The New Yorker today that a Russian judge had ordered the destruction of a Gadsden Flag seized from prominent Putin critic and video blogger (“vlogger”) Yegor Zhukov: In many of his vlog entries, Zhukov is seated against the backdrop of the Gadsden flag—“Don’t Tread on Me”—which appears to hang in his […]
