Flags make a couple of brief appearances in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. One is in this scene that draws upon the Nuremberg rally imagery from Lene Riefenstahl’s infamous Nazi propaganda film, 1935’s Triumph of the Will: The flag in the background belongs to the First Order, featuring its emblem of 16 bars radially arranged within […]
Scott Kelly isn’t the only Star Wars fan who has been hard at work designing flags. This month’s flag design contest in Reddit’s /r/vexillology community had this prompt: It is a period of flag design. Aspiring vexillographers, illustrating from around the world, have won victories throughout the year. During this month, your task is to […]
Earlier in the year we wished May the Fourth Be With You, and now for some reason Star Wars flags are back on our minds… London-based New Zealander Scott Kelly’s labor of love — to design a flag for the “around 300 planets named over all of the Star Wars universe, from movies to comic […]
Happy Star Wars Day! The caption for this reads: This photograph from what is estimated to be 1944 supports the previous evidence we’ve presented of Imperial involvement in earth’s conflicts. These soldiers atop a conquored building are securing a flag bearing a modified Imperial symbol. Rumors exist of AT-ATs and AT-STs marching all over eastern Europe during World War […]
