by Max Liberman, Vexilloid Tabloid #58 In 2001, Australian vexillographer Brendan Jones produced a series of intriguing proposals for new Australian state flags. The designs follow the pattern established by the flags of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory: the southern cross from the national flag in a panel at the hoist, and an emblem… Continue reading New Flags for Australia’s States?
Yesterday was the Discovery Day holiday for 2016 in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, marking the (possible) discovery of Newfoundland by John Cabot on 24 June 1497. (It's not clear where Cabot actually landed, whether on Newfoundland or the North American mainland, though in 1997 Canada and the UK decreed that it was Cape… Continue reading Happy Discovery Day, Newfoundland
You might think that multinational patriotism would involve pledging allegiance to Barclays, but Onjena Yo's project, the Multinational Patriot Flag & Blog Series, seeks to re-imagine conventional notions of patriotism in more inclusive, multi-national ways. This series grows from the desire to see American icons used in a way that represents the United States as the melting… Continue reading Multinational Patriotism
Jabzy (or @JabzyJoe) hosts a YouTube channel focused on Western history. In addition to nearly 70 Three Minute Histories of various wars, he has a shorter (in number) and longer (in runtime) series of Flag Histories -- four to be precise, of Germany, France, Britain, and Italy. Using many images from art history, he takes each back… Continue reading Jabzy’s Flag Histories
The latest effort to have Milwaukee, Wisconsin adopt a new flag reached a critical milestone on June 14th (Flag Day) when the winning proposed design was announced before a packed audience at radio station 88Nine. After over 6000 people responded to an online survey to rate the five finalist proposals on a scale of 1 to 10, Robert Lenz's… Continue reading “Sunrise Over the Lake” Wins Milwaukee Flag Contest
"Passionate Clevelander" Gregory Kula is petitioning Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to change Cleveland's current flag, a red, white, and blue tribar with the city's coat of arms on the white bar. He writes: Hello everyone, If you have ever seen Cleveland's city flag you are among the few. It has a design from the late 1890s… Continue reading Petition Started To Change Cleveland’s Flag
Every student of the US flag knows that it was officially adopted on 14 June 1777 when the Second Continental Congress passed what is now known as the First Flag Act: Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in… Continue reading Happy National Flag Week
Albany, Oregon wants to join the ranks of cities with flags. Spurred by the vexillonaires of GUAVA (the Greater Unified Albany Vexillological Association), led by West Albany High School math teacher Cole Pouliot, the city is running a design contest through 5 pm Pacific Time on 5 July 2016. The design contest winner will receive a… Continue reading A Flag for the Hub City of Oregon
RealLifeLore is a new YouTube channel presenting a mixture of geopolitics, history, and vexillology. This includes an entertaining and informative series with titles of the form "What Does the ___ Flag Mean?" So far, there are installments for the UK, France, and Spain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBhVJf8n_NM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFt7TOWq0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsxBalxAqzg We hope more installments will be forthcoming. In the mean… Continue reading What Does the ___ Flag Mean?
In Vexilloid Tabloid #57 we reported on a research project by Australian high school senior Max Pickering. Since then, he has interviewed a number of vexillologists; conducted surveys of residents of his home town of Adelaide, South Australia; and revised his research question to the following: To what extent does the design of a flag… Continue reading Pride, Unity, and Flag Design
Portland Flag Association 