Your loquacious Vexilloid Tabloid editor has recently been interviewed on Slate (Mike Pesca’s podcast “The Gist”); 99% Invisible (the “tiny radio show about design” by Roman Mars); and National Public Radio's All Things Considered (“What does its chosen banner say about ISIS”). In the interviews he discussed the flags of the UK (after Scotland...), New Zealand, Ukraine… Continue reading Ted Kaye on the air
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The Vexilloid Tabloid is the bimonthly newsletter of the Portland Flag Association, edited by Ted Kaye. Each issue features the What’s That Flag? quiz, Flags in the News (news stories featuring flags), Flutterings (highlights from the last PFA meeting), and Portland Flag Miscellany (news about Portland's city flag), as well as feature articles on flag-related topics… Continue reading Join our mailing list
Flag Wrapping Paper
Ted Kaye reporting on PFA's last meeting in VexTab #49: David Koski is experimenting with repeating designs derived from flag images, using various transformative algorithms. Every one is based on a component of the full flag. Here are examples based on the United States flag. David has also developed versions based on the Union Jack… Continue reading Flag Wrapping Paper
San Francisco’s Hayes Valley Flag Wall
More from Bay Area Flag Report by Ted Kaye, in VexTab #49: In San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, Joe Theisen spruced up his building at 540 Laguna St. with 33 holes in the façade and first famously displayed the flags of all 2014 World Cup countries (plus Ireland). In September new flags went up. Now… Continue reading San Francisco’s Hayes Valley Flag Wall
What is the Most Patriotic Color?
...asked Time Magazine in its “Answers Issue”, Sept. 8–15, 2014. After downloading images of 196 national flag from Flagpedia.net, Time added up the number of pixels of each color, simplified them, and grouped them into categories of white, black, red, blue, green, and yellow using a simple algorithm. Time thus determined the frequency of colors… Continue reading What is the Most Patriotic Color?
License Plate Slogans Flag
From Bay Area Flag Report by Ted Kaye, in VexTab #49: In Sausalito, Hanson Gallery Fine Arts offers owner Scott Hanson’s American Flag with License Plate Slogans. Made from real license plates and 100-year-old barn wood, and measuring 52” x 84”, it sells for $17,500.
The Vexilloid Tabloid for December 2014
The December Issue (#49) of the Vexilloid Tabloid features: The PFA Turns 20 (Ted Kaye and John Hood) Bay Area Flag Report (Ted Kaye) Flag Wrapping Paper (David Koski) You'll also find a “What’s that Flag?” quiz from David Ferriday, notes from the November PFA meeting hosted by Michael Orelove, and other items of vexillological interest. Past issues of the Vexilloid… Continue reading The Vexilloid Tabloid for December 2014
How did Portland get such a nice flag?
Our very own Ted Kaye sat down with popular design podcaster Roman Mars to talk flag design and tell the story of the Portland flag: how a good design was botched by bureaucrats, and many years later -- with some activist vexillology on the part of its designer Douglas Lynch and the PFA -- ultimately restored. For this work, Lynch received… Continue reading How did Portland get such a nice flag?
Vexilloid Tabloid #48
Here is October Issue (#48) of the Vexilloid Tabloid, featuring: Updating the Portland Flag's Specs (Ted Kaye) Raising the Alaska State Flag (Michael Orelove) White Flags (Scott Mainwaring) You'll also find a “What’s that Flag?” quiz from David Ferriday, Ted Kaye's notes from the very well attended September PFA meeting, and other items of vexillological interest. Past issues of the Vexilloid… Continue reading Vexilloid Tabloid #48
Vexilloid Tabloid #47
It may still be July, but the August Issue (#47) of the Vexilloid Tabloid is here. In it you will find articles on: The Canadian Native Flag (Curtis Wilson) Toronto's City Flag (Scott Mainwaring) Nepal: One Flag - Four Hands (Michael Orelove) Flags of "American Nations" (Ted Kaye) You'll also find a “What’s that Flag?” quiz from Scott… Continue reading Vexilloid Tabloid #47
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