By Ted Kaye; revised by Scott Mainwaring Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #30, October 2011 The PFA has honored Randall Gray of West Linn for his re-design of the Oregon State Flag, which received the most votes in The Oregonian's contest in 2008-09. In a celebration hosted in February by Mike Hale at Elmer’s Flag & Banner,… Continue reading Randall Gray’s Flag for Oregon
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Fun with Flag [reblog]
Where does the word "flag" come from?
United Nations Flag Project
By Michael Orelove Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #30, October 2011 I have all 50 state flags, different historical American flags, some city flags, and various other flags, but very few national flags. I give flag presentations in schools and various community organizations and wanted to have additional national flags. Rather than purchase a full set… Continue reading United Nations Flag Project
Columbus, Ohio [reblog]
Columbus, Ohio a mecca of great ice cream? Who knew?
Burrito Justice: Flags of San Francisco [reblog]
The mysterious, prolific, and insightful Burrito Justice published this piece about his hometown’s flag way back in 2013. And as a kind of sequel, check out his flag celebrating SF asshattery from 2014.
Hey, did you know San Francisco has a flag?!? (I mean, other than the Castro flag.)
Lots of history behind this — the very wooden early San Francisco burned down many times:
1849: Dec 24
1850: May 4
1850: Jun 14
1850: Sep 17
1851: May 3
1851: Jun 22
While I love the IDEA of our flag, I don’t actually LOVE our flag. It’s kind of… meh, to be honest. And apparently I am not the only one. The all-powerful and knowledgeable Roman Mars noted the same when he moved to Chicago from SF. (A worthy podcast.)
So when I moved back to San Francisco in 2008, I researched its flag because I’d never seen it before in the previous eight years that I’d lived here. And I found it … I’m sorry to say, sadly lacking.
He even interviewed a vexillologicist, Ted Kaye, on what makes a…
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Provo Puts its Latest Logo on a Bedsheet
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
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
Portland Flag Association 