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
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
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
A day late -- nevertheless, enjoy these Frog Flags!
Upon hearing Roman Mars repeat Ted Kaye's dictum In every bad flag there's a good flag trying to get out, James Reyes decided to simplify the flag of his hometown, El Paso, Texas, from this: to this: Adding to the list of city flag improvement efforts underway in the US he began lobbying for a… Continue reading Simplifying El Paso’s flag
Alas, no, not a flag for Dungeons & Dragons: rather, a flag for the twin Scottish villages of Denny (pop. 8000) and Dunipace (pop. 2500). The River Carron -- which might be the "River Itys" described in Ptolemy's Geography in the 2nd century -- separates the two. Deadline for submissions is February 17, 2016. For instructions and details, download the… Continue reading Have an Idea for a D&D Flag?
by Michael Orelove, Vexilloid Tabloid #55 Long-time PFA member Michael Orelove is recovering from a medical emergency. We will miss having his good-natured enthusiasm at our meetings, and wish him a full and expeditious return to health. Here is a photo essay he put together for our most recent newsletter. When I take a trip, I pack clean… Continue reading Field Report — New England & Canada Cruise
There are 14 Phoenixes and 5 Phenixes in the United States, but only one of these has a flag: to nobody's surprise, it's Phoenix, Arizona. And again, to nobody's surprise, the flag of Phoenix, Arizona has a phoenix on it. It's in the form of a highly stylized logo that won the Great Phoenix Bird Design Competition of 1987. More… Continue reading Phoenix Flags
Here are our 20 most-viewed* blog posts of the year. #20 - Andy Warhol and the American Flag (226 views) #19 - Fargo -- A Flag for the Flagless? (247 views) #18 - Heart Flags (257 views) #17 - American Flag Refreshed for 2015 (303 views) #16 - The Flag of HDYNATION (307 views) #15 -… Continue reading Our Most Popular Posts of 2015
from Vexilloid Tabloid #54 Note: “Flutterings” — notes from the editor on our last meeting — is a regular feature in The Vexilloid Tabloid. September 2015 Flutterings You Need to Know In our September meeting, hosted by Larry Snyder in a small theater—complete with fresh popcorn—at the Oswego Pointe development in Lake Oswego, 8 PFA members enjoyed a… Continue reading Flutterings (from VexTab #54)
Portland Flag Association 