On Instagram, we are re-posting interesting flag-related images found there. Follow us at @portlandflag, and if you have posted an image you would like us to consider for re-posting, tag it with #flagpix! Here are some examples:
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Doughnut Flags & Flag Doughnuts
Our latest newsletter, Vexilloid Tabloid #57, featured this high-calorie image: This got us thinking about the intersection of doughnuts and flags. Enjoy, but consume in moderation.
New Zealand’s Flag Referendum and Theories of Voting
by Erik Herron, PhD Eberly Family Professor of Political Science West Virginia University (from Vexilloid Tabloid #57) Introduction The disciplines of vexillology and psephology (the scientific study of elections) have many commonalities: both focus on how design and representation intersect. New Zealand’s 2015–16 Flag Referendums caused these two worlds to collide. This article assesses the… Continue reading New Zealand’s Flag Referendum and Theories of Voting
That Australian Flag Bathing Box
At Brighton Beach not far from downtown Melbourne, Australia is a famous row of colorfully painted "bathing boxes" (19th century huts built as shelters and changing rooms for beach goers). Box Number Two, painted to resemble the Australian flag, is a popular photographic subject. Very popular. Consider this selection of postings found on Instagram. Is there… Continue reading That Australian Flag Bathing Box
PFA Meeting Update
Our March meeting takes place tonight in Lake Oswego, Oregon -- anyone is welcome! See the Next Meeting page for details. We publish "minutes" as the Flutterings column in our newsletter, The Vexilloid Tabloid. Here are the Flutterings from our last meeting as reported in VexTab 56 (with many photos at the end). In our… Continue reading PFA Meeting Update
South Bend, Indiana Has a Great New Flag
As we reported last October, in honor of the city's sesquicentennial, the SB150 Committee hosted a public contest at the beginning of a carefully designed process to design a new city flag for South Bend, Indiana. After selecting three finalists, gathering public feedback, and creating a composite design, the city's elected officials today revealed the final result:… Continue reading South Bend, Indiana Has a Great New Flag
Ted Kaye on the NZ flag debate
PFA luminary Ted Kaye was on Turkish television (TRT World) last week, being interviewed as part of a story about national flags and the flag change debate in New Zealand. Check it out:
A Treasure Trove of Vexillology
Good news for all you vexillologists out there: NAVA, the North American Vexillological Association, has made available, for free online access, nearly everything that it has published in its premiere scholarly journal Raven. (The two most recent volumes are behind a paywall.) Most of the free content can be accessed at: https://www.pdcnet.org/raven/free The interface is basic, but… Continue reading A Treasure Trove of Vexillology
Changing The Other Portland’s Flag
As every Oregonian Portlander knows, our city name was the result of 1845 coin tosses between two founders from New England, a Bostonian and a Portlander. So it is with special interest that we see that our namesake city has now joined the long list of US cities in which vexillonaires are trying to improve the… Continue reading Changing The Other Portland’s Flag
Happy (belated) Leap Day!
A day late -- nevertheless, enjoy these Frog Flags!
Portland Flag Association 