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
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Mayor Hales sails with the Portland flag
From the regular Portland Flag Miscellany section of Vexilloid Tabloid #49: Portland’s mayor, Charlie Hales, reports to us: “We flew the Portland flag all summer on the s/v Elizabeth, in Puget Sound and Canada’s Gulf Islands. Lots of comments and questions. This image is from our return voyage, nearing the mouth of the Strait of Juan De… Continue reading Mayor Hales sails with the Portland flag
How did Portland get such a nice flag?
Our very own Ted Kaye sat down with popular design podcaster Roman Mars to talk flag design and tell the story of the Portland flag: how a good design was botched by bureaucrats, and many years later -- with some activist vexillology on the part of its designer Douglas Lynch and the PFA -- ultimately restored. For this work, Lynch received… Continue reading How did Portland get such a nice flag?
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