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
Tag: City Flags
City Flag Improvement Efforts
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
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
South Bend Hosts Rule-Based Competition
Add South Bend, Indiana to your list of US cities working on new flag designs this year. If you would like to participate, you have until 5:00 PM Central Time on November 16th to upload a flag design to be considered. (You can also submit by mail or in person.) South Bend's contest is a bit… Continue reading South Bend Hosts Rule-Based Competition
Art is the Handmaid of Human Good
Lowell's city flag, like so many, places the city seal on a plain field -- an example of the infamous "seal on a bedsheet". And, yes, there is a Roman Mars-inspired grassroots effort underway to improve it at lowellflag.com. But let's stop a moment to consider this artwork. Lowell's seal is a remarkable example of its genre.… Continue reading Art is the Handmaid of Human Good
Dallas = The Pegasus and The Trinity?
In an interesting twist on the "let's improve our city's flag!" meme that, courtesy of Roman Mars, is circulating around the U.S., a Facebook-centric initiative is underway in the Big D, Dallas, Texas. And a rapidly-moving initiative it is! Dallas I. May created the Facebook page Your Dallas Flag less than a month ago. After some… Continue reading Dallas = The Pegasus and The Trinity?
How Roman Mars Brought Vexillology to the Public
Vexillology may have more fame as an answer to a trivia question than as an serious topic of conversation, but Roman Mars is changing that. In May we reported on the release, on TED.com and YouTube, of the video of his March 2015 TED Talk. On TED.com it's titled Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing… Continue reading How Roman Mars Brought Vexillology to the Public
A New Flag For A New L.A.
Want to improve your city's flag? Take a look at what Ian Williams and his collaborators have put together to push for "A New Flag For A New L.A.". First, they managed to get the domain losangelesflag.org (welcome to the [cityname]flag.org family, Los Angeles Flag!), the twitter handle @LosAngelesFlag, and the Facebook page facebook.com/losangelesflag. (That all these… Continue reading A New Flag For A New L.A.
Designs Sought for New Milwaukee Flag
Update: Robert Lenz's design "Sunrise Over the Lake" won the contest. Steve Kodis is on a mission to create a new flag for the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His group, Milwaukee Flag, is currently soliciting designs from the public. Anyone is invited to submit a design (up to five of them, actually), until the deadline of… Continue reading Designs Sought for New Milwaukee Flag
Birmingham (Alabama) Flag Project Wants Your Vote
Public voting for a new flag for Birmingham, Alabama ends at midnight (Central time) on Friday, October 23rd. Here are the three candidates to consider. Please visit each design's profile to learn more about it, and to see "applied uses of the design" -- a smart nod to the requirement that a flag design function… Continue reading Birmingham (Alabama) Flag Project Wants Your Vote
Portland Flag Association 