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Designs Sought for New Milwaukee Flag

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Update: Robert Lenz's design "Sunrise Over the Lake" won the contest. Steve Kodis is on a mission to create a new flag for the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  His group, Milwaukee Flag, is currently soliciting designs from the public.  Anyone is invited to submit a design (up to five of them, actually), until the deadline of… Continue reading Designs Sought for New Milwaukee Flag

Birmingham (Alabama) Flag Project Wants Your Vote

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Public voting for a new flag for Birmingham, Alabama ends at midnight (Central time) on Friday, October 23rd.  Here are the three candidates to consider. Please visit each design's profile to learn more about it, and to see "applied uses of the design" -- a smart nod to the requirement that a flag design function… Continue reading Birmingham (Alabama) Flag Project Wants Your Vote

Brendan Patrick Hennessy’s Flog

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Torontonian Brendan Patrick Hennessy blogs about flags on a site named, appropriately enough, Flag Log.  He writes: Flag Log is a blog about flags (or “flog”). Come to this flog if you want to see a bunch of cool pictures of flags. More than just a bunch of cool pictures, it is actually quite a treasure… Continue reading Brendan Patrick Hennessy’s Flog

Fargo – A Flag for the Flagless?

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Update: Taylor Homoky's design (see below) won the Arts Partnership contest. On 16 December 2015 the city's Arts and Culture Commission voted to forward it along with other designs to the city's communications manager. We couldn't find any subsequent news regarding Fargo's plans (or lack thereof) to adopt a flag. Citizens of the flagless city of Fargo, North… Continue reading Fargo – A Flag for the Flagless?

Animals with Flags

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To encourage loyalty, tobacco companies used to give away a small collectible piece of printed fabric (a "silk") with each pack of cigarettes.  Kovels Antiques notes, "popular subjects included actors and actresses, animals, baseball players, college mascots and seals, flags, generals, Indians, kings and queens, U.S. presidents, and Hamilton King girls." This 1915 set from the… Continue reading Animals with Flags

Flag Art by Nimai Kesten

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Nimai Kesten (www.nimaikesten.com) grew up in an abusive Hare Krishna boarding school in Lake Huntington, NY before transforming "into a loud-mouthed, rebellious, New York City graffiti writing skateboarder" and surfer.  He writes in his bio: In his early 20's, Nimai began to look at the life he carved out on the streets of New York for himself… Continue reading Flag Art by Nimai Kesten

Xavier Rudd & The United Nations: Flag

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Xavier Rudd is an Australian singer-songwriter who recently brought together musicians from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and South Africa to form the band United Nations.  Their reggae song Flag leads off their latest album Nanna. The video is built around images of white flags -- the white flag of peace, not surrender.… Continue reading Xavier Rudd & The United Nations: Flag

Letter Society Project 25: City Flag

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Each month, collaborative design blog The Letter Society sets for its members a design challenge.  Last June, Project 25 was City Flag. For inspiration, they pointed to Roman Mars' TED Talk The Worst-Designed Thing You've Never Noticed, featuring the PFA's Ted Kaye discussing Good Flag, Bad Flag. Here are the results of the design challenge: Seattle,… Continue reading Letter Society Project 25: City Flag