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
Tag: National Flags
The Landscape Flag of Greenland
The distinctive flag of Greenland turns 30 today; Inuit artist and leader Thue Christiansen's design was adopted 21 June 1985. According to its designer it depicts the sun reflecting on the ocean as it sets beneath the horizon, and the glaciers, ice cap, and ice bergs so prominent in the island's landscape. In 2010 artist and University of… Continue reading The Landscape Flag of Greenland
Ted Kaye on a murderer’s choice of flags
The PFA's Ted Kaye appeared on the Slate podcast The Gist, discussing this week's church killings in Charleston, SC.
23 (1st Round) “Finalists” for New Fiji Flag
Update: Fiji has cancelled its plans to change its flag. Fiji's National Flag Committee has selected 23 designs from the hundreds submitted as finalists for the new Fijian flag. At newfijiflag.com Fijians and foreigners are able to give their feedback on each of the finalists. In order to interpret the designs, the committee provides this guide… Continue reading 23 (1st Round) “Finalists” for New Fiji Flag
Flags and Stamps
Flags and Stamps is the beautifully curated blog of Indian vexillologist/philatelist Sekhar Chakrabarti. The scope of flag stamps covered is wide-ranging, though Chakrabarti has a special interest in the appearances of the Indian flag on stamps. He is author of The Indian National Flag Unfurled through Philately published by Niyogi Books. Here are some examples from… Continue reading Flags and Stamps
Roundup (from VexTab #52)
From Vexilloid Tabloid #52 Note: “Roundup” — of flag related items sent to the editor — is a regular feature in The Vexilloid Tabloid. Finally, coming up this year are two major vexillological events. PFA members will attend both!
Flutterings (from VexTab #52)
from Vexilloid Tabloid #52 Note: "Flutterings" — notes from the editor on our last meeting — is a regular feature in The Vexilloid Tabloid. May Flutterings You Need to Know In our May meeting, hosted by John Schilke, 18 PFA members and guests enjoyed a lively 3-hour evening of flags and other wide-ranging topics. As the host,… Continue reading Flutterings (from VexTab #52)
A New Flag for Fiji—A Work in Progress
by Ted Kaye, in Vexilloid Tabloid #52 In February, Fiji’s recently-elected prime minister announced that the country would change the flag to remove the colonial symbols it had borne since its adoption at independence in 1970. Aiming to raise a new flag on independence day, 10 October 2015, he set an ambitious schedule: A flag-design contest… Continue reading A New Flag for Fiji—A Work in Progress
Redesigning Union Jack-based Flags
In the past few years the British Union Jack and flags that incorporate it have been matters of public interest and debate. Fiji and New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, Australia and the UK are or have been reconsidering the suitability of their existing flags. Only Tuvalu appears resolute in keeping the Union Jack on its flag. Taking these… Continue reading Redesigning Union Jack-based Flags
Ted Kaye Joins Flag Redesign Committee for Fiji
On February 3rd Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama declared that Fiji would be changing its flag. Today, he announced the 13 members of a National Flag Committee tasked with recommending a shortlist of new flags for the South Pacific nation. Committee members include a variety of prominent Fijians: Shaenaz Voss: senior manager Fiji Airways, former executive officer of… Continue reading Ted Kaye Joins Flag Redesign Committee for Fiji
Portland Flag Association 