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Delacroix and Charlie Hebdo

January 14, 2015January 18, 2015 SDMLeave a comment

In Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix created what is arguably the single most famous depiction of any flag, and certainly of the French tricolor. The central figure, the personification of Liberty (and of the French nation), brandishing the flag in one hand, a rifle in the other, climbs over her fallen comrades urging "the people" on to victory.… Continue reading Delacroix and Charlie Hebdo

Randall Gray’s Flag for Oregon

January 13, 2015January 18, 2015 SDM1 Comment

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

United Nations Flag Project

January 10, 2015January 18, 2015 SDM2 Comments

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

Burrito Justice: Flags of San Francisco [reblog]

January 8, 2015January 18, 2015 SDM1 Comment

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.

Provo Puts its Latest Logo on a Bedsheet

January 7, 2015January 18, 2015 SDM2 Comments

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

January 5, 2015January 18, 2015 SDMLeave a comment

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

January 5, 2015January 18, 2015 SDMLeave a comment

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

January 2, 2015January 18, 2015 SDMLeave a comment

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

January 1, 2015February 18, 2015 SDM1 Comment

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

Happy 2015!

December 31, 2014January 18, 2015 SDMLeave a comment

Actually, it's a flag for any non-leap year that begins on a Thursday. The boundaries aren't shown, but it's made from 53 narrow columns (weeks, running from the first week on the hoist edge to the last week on the fly edge) and 7 wide rows (days of the week, with Sunday along the top… Continue reading Happy 2015!