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The OKC Flag Project

December 2, 2015December 2, 2015 SDM4 Comments

You can add Oklahoma City to the list of cities in which flag design activists have taken up Roman Mars' call to arms to improve the municipal flag. They call themselves the OKC Flag Project, and are soliciting design proposals at their website, okcflag.org. Despite the nuclear bottlecap, the OKC project sees nothing wrong with the city… Continue reading The OKC Flag Project

RAIPON

November 29, 2015November 28, 2015 SDMLeave a comment

The Flags of the World (FOTW) database recently added a new indigenous peoples' flag: the flag of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON). RAIPON was established in 1990 and participates on the Arctic Council. It represents 41 different indigenous groups across Russia. RAIPON was shut down unexpectedly in 2012 with the pretext that… Continue reading RAIPON

State Flag Pledges

November 28, 2015December 2, 2015 SDM1 Comment

Francis Bellamy's 1892 pledge of allegiance to the US national flag is well known. Less well known are the pledges US states have created to their own flags, seventeen in all. With the exception of Florida, all eleven states that seceded during the US Civil War have flag pledges -- though all of these were adopted… Continue reading State Flag Pledges

Hello, Hello Internet!

November 22, 2015November 22, 2015 SDM1 Comment

Hello Internet (hellointernet.fm, @HelloInternetFM) is a podcast by prolific YouTube celebrities C. G. P. Grey and Brady Haran. Vexillology appears to be a recurring theme. For example, the current episode, H.I. #51: Appropriately Thinking It, includes discussion of the Fiji flag referendum and a design contest they are running to create a Hello Internet flag. As… Continue reading Hello, Hello Internet!

Flag Making for Unity and Pride

November 21, 2015November 21, 2015 SDMLeave a comment

Imperial County (California) Supervisor Ryan E. Kelley would like to redesign the little-known flag adopted by the county in 1996 but subsequently forgotten. But this is not another Roman Mars-inspired effort focused on applying principles of good flag design to improve a bad one. Rather, Kelley wants to use not just a new flag itself… Continue reading Flag Making for Unity and Pride

Cascadia by Moonlight

November 14, 2015March 10, 2016 SDMLeave a comment

Flags, Peace, and World War I

November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 SDMLeave a comment

To commemorate today's Veterans Day holiday, which arose out of World War I Armistice Day, here are a few flag-related items.

A Flag for All Mississippians

November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 SDM3 Comments

According to its designer the state flag of Mississippi includes the Confederate battle flag in order to "perpetuate in a legal and lasting way that dear battle flag under which so many of our people had so gloriously fought". Dating back to 1894, the design has certainly lasted -- 121 years so far. In the widespread backlash against… Continue reading A Flag for All Mississippians

City Flag Improvement Efforts

November 1, 2015March 9, 2016 SDM2 Comments

Thanks to Roman Mars and Ted Kaye, Good Flag, Bad Flag, and 2015 having become basically the Year of the Flag, there are efforts underway in lots of US cities to improve their municipal flag designs. Here are the cases we know about: Albuquerque, NM; Austin, TX; Billings, MT; Birmingham, AL; Bloomington, IN; Boston, MA; Bowling Green, KY; Columbia, MO; Dallas, TX; El Paso, TX; Grand Rapids,… Continue reading City Flag Improvement Efforts

SF Flag Redesigns

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 SDM1 Comment

Roman Mars is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, so it is no surprise that the redesign of the San Francisco flag has drawn his attention. In May of this year he announced that his radio show and podcast 99% Invisible was teaming up with design software multinational Autodesk to support a redesign activity, including the… Continue reading SF Flag Redesigns