The Vexilloid Tabloid is the newsletter of the Portland Flag Association.
Author: SDM
Ethnography * Technology * Design
Vexilloid Tabloid #57
The April edition of our newsletter is out early, featuring an insightful article political science professor and psephologist Erik Herron on last year's referendum in New Zealand. (That vote determined the design that Kiwis are deciding this month whether to adopt as their new national flag.) Contents for Vexilloid Tabloid #57: Introduction: Psephology and NZ; Mississippi (Ted Kaye) How… Continue reading Vexilloid Tabloid #57
That Australian Flag Bathing Box
At Brighton Beach not far from downtown Melbourne, Australia is a famous row of colorfully painted "bathing boxes" (19th century huts built as shelters and changing rooms for beach goers). Box Number Two, painted to resemble the Australian flag, is a popular photographic subject. Very popular. Consider this selection of postings found on Instagram. Is there… Continue reading That Australian Flag Bathing Box
PFA Meeting Update
Our March meeting takes place tonight in Lake Oswego, Oregon -- anyone is welcome! See the Next Meeting page for details. We publish "minutes" as the Flutterings column in our newsletter, The Vexilloid Tabloid. Here are the Flutterings from our last meeting as reported in VexTab 56 (with many photos at the end). In our… Continue reading PFA Meeting Update
South Bend, Indiana Has a Great New Flag
As we reported last October, in honor of the city's sesquicentennial, the SB150 Committee hosted a public contest at the beginning of a carefully designed process to design a new city flag for South Bend, Indiana. After selecting three finalists, gathering public feedback, and creating a composite design, the city's elected officials today revealed the final result:… Continue reading South Bend, Indiana Has a Great New Flag
Ted Kaye on the NZ flag debate
PFA luminary Ted Kaye was on Turkish television (TRT World) last week, being interviewed as part of a story about national flags and the flag change debate in New Zealand. Check it out:
What’s that Flag? (From VexTab #2)
The Vexilloid Tabloid is the newsletter of the Portland Flag Association.
A Treasure Trove of Vexillology
Good news for all you vexillologists out there: NAVA, the North American Vexillological Association, has made available, for free online access, nearly everything that it has published in its premiere scholarly journal Raven. (The two most recent volumes are behind a paywall.) Most of the free content can be accessed at: https://www.pdcnet.org/raven/free The interface is basic, but… Continue reading A Treasure Trove of Vexillology
Changing The Other Portland’s Flag
As every Oregonian Portlander knows, our city name was the result of 1845 coin tosses between two founders from New England, a Bostonian and a Portlander. So it is with special interest that we see that our namesake city has now joined the long list of US cities in which vexillonaires are trying to improve the… Continue reading Changing The Other Portland’s Flag
Happy (belated) Leap Day!
A day late -- nevertheless, enjoy these Frog Flags!
Portland Flag Association 