Blog post by Scott Mainwaring The flag of Provo, Utah ranked extremely low (143rd out of 150) in the flag designs evaluated in NAVA's 2004 American City Flags Survey, eventually leading to an effort in 2013 by Mayor John Curtis to create and adopt a new flag for Utah's third-largest city. The effort got bogged down in… Continue reading Provo Puts its Latest Logo on a Bedsheet
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Ethnography * Technology * Design
Men Sewing Flags
A little counter-point to the last posting. Images of men sewing flags can be found, just not as easily. Here are some. (Click on the photos below for original context as found on the web.)
Women Sewing Flags
The production of flags has been, and continues to be, highly gendered. (Click on the photos below for original context as found on the web.)
The Flags of Our Children
Carlos Fort Garcia is a "graphic designer and graphic activist" living in Barcelona, and author of a highly imaginative and playful vexillolographic project entitled Las Banderas de Nuestros Hijos: Deconstruvendo Banderas (The Flags of Our Children: Deconstructing Flags). The project text is in Spanish, and my Spanish, alas, is very rusty, so I am sure I… Continue reading The Flags of Our Children
White Flags
From an article by Scott Mainwaring in The Vexilloid Tabloid #48, October 2014. Color is so elemental in flag design that colors is a synonym for flag. Recently, however, all-white flags have been in the news due to two Berlin artists, Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf. In the wee hours of July 22 they evaded… Continue reading White Flags
Happy 2015!
Actually, it's a flag for any non-leap year that begins on a Thursday. The boundaries aren't shown, but it's made from 53 narrow columns (weeks, running from the first week on the hoist edge to the last week on the fly edge) and 7 wide rows (days of the week, with Sunday along the top… Continue reading Happy 2015!
Shahee Ilyas’ Flags by Colors Game
This is so cool! Can you guess which flag is which just by the colors and their proportion? Visit http://www.shaheeilyas.com/flags/ to use the interactive version, or to buy a poster version. Nice work! Attribution: 2007 Shahee Ilyas | This work by Shahee Ilyas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Special thanks to Ayesh.… Continue reading Shahee Ilyas’ Flags by Colors Game
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How to Honor Those in Uniform?
From the December 24th Daily Tribune in Mount Pleasant, Texas comes this image of seven flags sharing a pole. In order, they are: Although the flags are in the correct order, and there doesn't seem to be any written rule about how many flags is too many when flown in this fashion, the overall effect is… Continue reading How to Honor Those in Uniform?
Kollona Lel Watan – The Lebanese Flag
Beautiful calligraphic #flagart by American expat Everitte Barbee.
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