Update: Taylor Homoky's design (see below) won the Arts Partnership contest. On 16 December 2015 the city's Arts and Culture Commission voted to forward it along with other designs to the city's communications manager. We couldn't find any subsequent news regarding Fargo's plans (or lack thereof) to adopt a flag. Citizens of the flagless city of Fargo, North… Continue reading Fargo – A Flag for the Flagless?
Tag: Flag Design
Letter Society Project 25: City Flag
Each month, collaborative design blog The Letter Society sets for its members a design challenge. Last June, Project 25 was City Flag. For inspiration, they pointed to Roman Mars' TED Talk The Worst-Designed Thing You've Never Noticed, featuring the PFA's Ted Kaye discussing Good Flag, Bad Flag. Here are the results of the design challenge: Seattle,… Continue reading Letter Society Project 25: City Flag
The Cuban Flag’s Descendents
As a symbol of independence from Spain, the Cuban flag has inspired a number of others, including those of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Catalan separatists. Cuba's flag was originally designed in 1849 in New York City by Venezuelan-Cuban General Narciso López and Cuban poet Miguel Teurbe Tolón to symbolize the effort to have the US annex… Continue reading The Cuban Flag’s Descendents
The Cascadian Nautical Flag
by Alexander Baretich, Vexilloid Tabloid #53 Cascadia is a bioregion roughly encompassing Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and parts of other states and provinces in the U.S. and Canada’s Pacific Northwest (see VT #36). In 2012, nearly 17 years after designing the popular Cascadian flag, I created a nautical flag for Cascadia, specifically for vessels of… Continue reading The Cascadian Nautical Flag
A Flag for Pluto
by Scott Mainwaring, Vexilloid Tabloid #53 On 13 July the New Horizons probe sent an image of Pluto dominated by Tombaugh Regio, a large feature informally called “the heart”. Inspired, I created a flag for Pluto: its astrological symbol in orange-brown (its overall color), in a white heart, on black (for space). I chose the… Continue reading A Flag for Pluto
Documenting the Redesign of the New Zealand Flag
If you're interested in the goings on in New Zealand as they select a new flag, you should be reading Dan Newman & Co.'s fantastic blog FLAGDESIGN.NZ: Documenting the Redesign of the New Zealand Flag. And if you are interested in flag design, you should be interested in New Zealand's process, as it provides great… Continue reading Documenting the Redesign of the New Zealand Flag
Plutonian Flags
In celebration of New Horizons' fly-by today of Pluto, some hadeocentric symbols and flags:
[reblog] On the meaning and design of a flag
THE CO-OP: A New Zealand Commentary Collective (nzcoop.wordpress.com) has been publishing recently about the flag change debate in that country. Here is an example.
New Fiji Flag Deadline Postponed
UPDATE: Fiji has cancelled its plans to change its flag. It was a very ambitious timetable, and now it has slipped: Fiji's new flag will be adopted not this year, but next, allowing the period of consultation that was to have ended today to now end in six months, at the end of this year. Here… Continue reading New Fiji Flag Deadline Postponed
Improving Boston’s City Flag
The Boston Globe took Flag Day as an opportunity to shine a light today on Boston's city flag and its deficiencies. Ruth Graham's op-ed "Improving Boston's city flag" includes quotes from vexillologists Dave Martucci (of the New England Vexillological Association), the PFA's Ted Kaye, and current NAVA President John Hartvigsen. Martucci points to the current flag's… Continue reading Improving Boston’s City Flag
Portland Flag Association 