Vexilloid Tabloid

The Vexilloid Tabloid (ISSN 2474-1787) is the bimonthly newsletter of the Portland Flag Association. It was founded in 1999 by John Hood (1934-2011), who edited and published it regularly beginning in 2004. Ted Kaye has been the editor since 2011.

Each issue features the What’s That Flag? quiz, Flags in the News (news stories featuring flags), Flutterings (highlights from the last PFA meeting), and Portland Flag Miscellany (news about Portland’s city flag), as well as feature articles on flag-related topics by PFA members and other contributors. Each new issue is sent out to our email subscribers list as a PDF attachment. If you would like to be added to that list, just email subscribe@portlandflag.org and let us know your name, contact info (address and e-mail) and interest in flags.

This page is our online archive, where you can find PDFs of the current issue, and of all back issues. Please note that the entries below highlight some, but not necessarily all, of the features in each issue.

Latest Issue

Vexilloid Tabloid #103, December 2023 (tag: VexTab103)

Minnesota on the Cusp (Ted Kaye)
When Mailboxes Became Viet Cong Flags (Phil Allen)
Confessions of a Flag Vigilante (Alden Jencks)
Vertical Display of the British Union Flag
Flags at Timberline Lodge
The ABC’s “Cyclone Tracy” Flag — Christmas Eve, 1974 (Ralph Bartlett)
Louth GAA (Ireland)

Previous Issues

Vexilloid Tabloid #102, October 2023 (tag: VexTab102)

The Flag Need Not Be Everything (Ted Kaye)
Vexiday 2023
When the Flag Changed French History (Alden Jencks)
NAVA 57
At the twilight’s last gleaming?

Vexilloid Tabloid #101, August 2023 (tag: VexTab101)

Government vs. People’s Flags (Ted Kaye)
Flags in the Grand Floral Parade
Timber’s Army Swag (Ted Kaye)
Purple in Flags
Six Things You Might Not Know About the French Flag (Alden Jencks)
A U.S. Redesign (Shane Erickson)
Star

Vexilloid Tabloid #100, June 2023 (tag: VexTab100)

The VT at 100 (issues) (Ted Kaye)
Natal-State Flags
Flags in Morocco: A Field Report (Ted Kaye)
The King of Canada’s New Standard (Max Liberman)

Vexilloid Tabloid #99, April 2023 (tag: VexTab99)

Utah’s New Flag (Ted Kaye)
Confederate Flags on I-5 (Ted Kaye)
Classroom Flags Report: Always Nijmegen (Alex Zimmerman)
The Atlantic/Pacific and Big Stick Flags: Sobriquets for U.S. Flags (Alden Jenks)
Too Much Uniformity in Gender and Sexuality Flags (Max Liberman)
Will AI Replace Vexillographers? (Scott Mainwaring)

Vexilloid Tabloid #98, February 2023 (tag: VexTab98)

Utah’s New Flag (Ted Kaye)
Confederate Flags on I-5 (Ted Kaye)
Classroom Flags Report: Always Nijmegen (Alex Zimmerman)
The Atlantic/Pacific and Big Stick Flags: Sobriquets for U.S. Flags (Alden Jenks)
Too Much Uniformity in Gender and Sexuality Flags (Max Liberman)
Will AI Replace Vexillographers? (Scott Mainwaring)

Vexilloid Tabloid #97, December 2022 (tag: VexTab97)

David Ferriday, 1934–2022
2022 FIFA World Cup Flags
Oregon OSHA Voluntary Protection Program Star Site Flag (John Niggley)
World Vexillology Day 2022 in China
World Vexillology Day 2022 in Portland
Field Report: Flags in Mourning for Queen Elizabeth II (Alex Zimmerman)
Flags in Kindergarten (Ted Kaye)

V exilloid Tabloid #96, October 2022 (tag: VexTab96)

Salem, Oregon’s New Flag (Ted Kaye)
Flags Over Interstate 5 (Michael Orelove)
Flaggy Movies (Al Cavalari)
Field Report: Trieste, Italy (Ted Kaye)
Field Report: Summer in Helsingborg, Sweden (Alex Zimmerman)
What Is a Petrel? (Stratis Andreadis)

V exilloid Tabloid #95, August 2022 (tag: VexTab95)

Grayscale Signal Flags (Max Liberman)
ICV 29 Report (Ted Kaye)
The Tranquility Flag: A Sobriquet for the Current American Flag (Alden Jencks)
Field Report: Slovenia (Ted Kaye)
Flags for Three Cahill Generations (Phil Allen)
Alaska Corrected (Michael Orelove)
Russian Sister Cities (David Ferriday)
Portland Parade Flags (Alden Jencks)
20th Anniversary for the Portland Flag (Ted Kaye)

V exilloid Tabloid #94, June 2022 (tag: VexTab94)

Aab—A Personal Nation (Alden Jencks)
Lewis & Clark’s Indian Peace Flag (Keith Glueck)
Flaggy Stuff from 2002 (Michael Orelove)
Field Report: Helsingborg, Sweden (Alex Zimmerman)
White Ensigns Aren’t Only for the Navy (Max Liberman)
Supporting Ukraine (Michael Orelove)
Moon and Blue Moon (David Ferriday)

V exilloid Tabloid #93, April 2022 (tag: VexTab93)

Flags—For and Against… Unite or Divide (David Ferriday)
Michael’s Flag Room (Michael Orelove)
Crowned Republics? (Max Liberman)
Larry Snyder’s Family Heraldry (Larry Snyder)
Flags in Support of Ukraine (Alden Jencks)
A New Flag is Born (Al Cavalari)
A Flag for Tigard—Ideas (David Koski)

V exilloid Tabloid #92, February 2022 (tag: VexTab92)

Utah’s Flag (Ted Kaye)
Church Gonfalon (Larry Snyder)
A Canadian Flag Reminiscence (Carl Gurtman)
Flag Proposals in Australia by Ted Davis
Holiday-ish Flags (Graham Houser)
Returning Mexican States’ Flags (Michael Orelove)
Chinese Flag Industry Prepares for ICV 30
Utah Launches Flag Re-Design Effort
John Wild Collection Update (Alex Zimmerman)

Vexilloid Tabloid #91, December 2021 (tag: VexTab91)

Mississippi’s Flag—A Year Later (Ted Kaye)
World Vexillology Day 2021
Why Do Red, White, and Blue Dominate National Flags? (Ted Kaye)
Flag Training for Chinese National Taekwondo and Karate Teams (Xinfeng Zhao 赵新风)
Flag Images Available at OHS (Kevin Harrington)
When Is a Flag Not a Flag? (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #90, October 2021 (tag: VexTab90)

John Hood 1934–2011 (reprint)
Flags in a Music Video (Graham Houser)
Flags in Miami Cuban Protests—July 2020 (summarized from an article in ADN Cuba)
What’s the Most Inclusive Flag? (Alex Zimmerman)
Polish-Australian Solidarity… oops! (Ralph Bartlett)
A New Flag for Oklahoma, 2022? (Dejan Mraović)
Flag Re-Use and Mis-Use in Germany (Alden Jenks)
Permanent Half-Staff (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #89, August 2021 (tag: VexTab89)

Hood River Museum’s Flags (Ted Kaye)
Honoring Uncles with Veterans’ Flags (Michael Orelove)
Using Flags to Teach the Visually Impaired (Alex Zimmerman)
Flags and Arms of Portland, Victoria, Australia (Ralph G. C. Bartlett)

Vexilloid Tabloid #88, June 2021 (tag: VexTab88)

Flags as Branding (Ted Kaye, on Michael Green’s TEDx Talk)
Stars on a Flag or Stars from a Flag? (Michael Orelove)
Portland, Victoria (preview of article coming from Ralph Bartlett)
A System of Unambiguous Hatching (David Koski)
The Need for a Common State Flag Format (Nate Szubin)
Red Cross Flag Donation (Michael Orelove)
Côte D’Ivoire in PDX (Alden Jencks)
Evolving White House Flag Displays (Al Cavalari)
What’s that Flag? (Mike Thomas)

Vexilloid Tabloid #87, April 2021 (tag: VexTab8 7)

Pandemic Repercussions (Ted Kaye)
Flags and Plutos (Michael Orelove)
Flags of Mauritius (Max Liberman)
February 14 Flags (Michael Orelove)
Members Fly Flags for Neighbors (Graham Houser, Alex Zimmerman, and Ted Kaye)
Collecting Flag Patches (Ralph Bartlett)
Flags in Philadelphia (Larry Snyder)
COVID Defiance Flag Heralds Vaccine Rollout
What’s that Flag? (John Cartledge)

Vexilloid Tabloid #86, February 2021 (tag: VexTab86)

Oregon Flag Registry Shifts to FOTW (Ted Kaye)
Flags of 2020
Arms and the Child (Ralph Bartlett)
Training for Flag-Raising in China (Xinfeng Zhao)
Royal Response to the Hawaiian Flag Documentary (Patrick Ka‛ano‛i)
State Flag Pledges (Michael Orelove)
The Flag at Rajneeshpuram (Kevin Harrington)
A Flag Vexillary (Phil Allen)
What’s that Flag? (Ted Kaye)

Vexilloid Tabloid #85, December 2020 (tag: VexTab85)

The Flag IS the Logo (Ted Kaye)
Slack Flags (David Koski)
A Proposed Flag for Oceania (Israel Alberto Núñez Manzano)
“Royal Deux-Ponts” Regimental Flag (Alden Jencks)
Snail Congress Flags (Mike Thomas)
1949 Royal Tour Handkerchief (Ralph Bartlett)
A Non-Flat Flag (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #84, October 2020 (tag: VexTab84)

Proportions in a Flag Recipe (David Ferriday)
Ken Dale’s Letter to Dear Abby (Ken Dale)
The Name of God on Flags (Max Liberman)
Home Sewn Flags (John Niggley)
Flags amid Fire
Flags from a 2000 Time Capsule (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #83, August 2020 (tag: VexTab83)

Mississippi’s Flag Comes Down
Tending Veterans’ Grave Flags at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery (Ken Dale)
Flag Patches Find Many Uses (Joyce and William Gifford)
Flags at the End of the Alaska Highway (Michael Orelove)
Lima ≠ Quarantine (Rob Murray)
Flags for Kathleen (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #82, June 2020 (tag: VexTab82)

Flags in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 Messages (Al Cavalari)
A Conversation wtih John Cartledge on Flag Design (Ted Kaye)
Flags in the Style of Another (David Koski)
Women’s Suffrage (Michael Orelove)
“Rogue States” (Stephanie Syjuco)

Vexilloid Tabloid #8 1, April 2020 (tag: VexTab81)

Everyone versus Each One (Ted Kaye)
Cincinnati Neighborhood Flags (Scott Mainwaring)
Quarantine Flags
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Flags (Aleksander Hribovšek)
The Republic of Michael Orelove (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #80, February 2020 (tag: VexTab80)

Rating Flag Designs (Ted Kaye)
Alfred Znamierowski, 1940-2019 (Roman Klimeš)
Rating the Portland Flag’s Design — a Russian View / Оценка дизайна флага Портленда (штат Орегон, США) (Nikita Dudko)
Mystery Flag — Help Needed
Portland Burgees
What’s in a Word? (Michael Orelove)
A Flag for 2020 (David Koski)
Coats of Arms of Irish Counties (from flag-designs.com)
“American Hex” Exhibition (by Brittany Vega and Christine Miller)

Vexilloid Tabloid #79, December 2019 (tag: VexTab79)

The Complex Oregon Flag (Michael Orelove)
Some Flags and Arms in Victoria, BC (Ted Kaye)
A Mashup Flag in Point Roberts (Ted Kaye)
The MLS Iron Front Flag Flap (Scott Mainwaring)
Five Flags on a Quarter (Michael Orelove)
World Geography – Quiz Game (Mike Thomas)

Vexilloid Tabloid #78, October 2019 (tag: VexTab78)

VexiDay 2019 (Željko Heimer)
Alternatives for Similar Flags (Izzy Núñez)
Flags Sent to the Future (Michael Orelove)
VexiDay 2019 in Portland (Ted Kaye)
What State Are YOU From? (Michael Orelove)
State Flags with Lettering or Seals
Kindergartners and Flags (Ted Kaye)

Vexilloid Tabloid #77, August 2019 (tag: VexTab77)

ICV 28 Report (Max Liberman)
PFA Inspires ICV 28 Paper
Unofficial Bohemian Flags (Krystof Huk)
Variant Flags of Puerto Rico (Carlos A. Morales-Ramirez)
Flag Display in Baker City, Oregon (Michael Orelove)
Flags and the B-17 (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #76, June 2019 (tag: VexTab76)

Genesis of Good Flag, Bad Flag (Ted Kaye)
A “Gray Pride” Flag (David Koski)
The Pro-Abortion Gadsden Flag (Ted Kaye)
Flaggy Map
Flags in School (Michael Orelove)
Farewell, Michael Faul & Chumley (Michael Faul)
Pirate Flags in the Caribbean (Michael Orelove)
The Red Flag (John Cartledge)

Vexilloid Tabloid #75, April 2019 (tag: VexTab75)

Tracking City Flag Changes (Ted Kaye)
A Special Flag for Lincoln (Michael Orelove)
Field Report: Central Belize & Garifuna Country (Ted Kaye)
Flags on a Caribbean Cruise (Michael Orelove)
Salmon Nation

Vexilloid Tabloid #74, February 2019 (tag: VexTab74)

Gender and vexillology (Scott Mainwaring)
Roman Numeral Flags for Years (Scott Mainwaring)
“Bullard” Flag in Portland
Flags in Fortnite (Nathaniel Mainwaring)
Visiting Flags in Idaho (Michael Orelove)
“The Sun Is Setting on the British Empire”

Vexilloid Tabloid #73, December 2018 (tag: VexTab73)

Her Flag 2020
Transgender Rights Flags (Scott Mainwaring)
Field Report: Québec City (Ted Kaye)
Have Flags Will Travel (Michael Orelove)
Do Imports Deface the Dutch Flag? ( Theun Okkerse)

Vexilloid Tabloid #72, October 2018 (tag: VexTab72)

Mississippi Furling (Ted Kaye)
Tulsa, Oklahoma Adopts a New Flag
Vexiday: The Third World Vexillology Day in Portland (Scott Mainwaring)
De gustibus non est disputandum (Carl Gurtman)
The 2018 Gresham Teddy Bear Parade (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #71, August 2018 (tag: VexTab71)

The “Essential Flag” (Ted Kaye)
The Centennial of a WWI Service Flag in Dayton, Washington (Michael Orelove)
Density Map of Stars on National Flags
Flag Day 2018 in Gresham (Michael Orelove)
A Flag Faully (Michael Faul)
For Those Who Think Africa Is One Country
The First U.S. Flag Sewn in Oregon? (Ted Kaye)

Vexilloid Tabloid #70, June 2018 (tag: VexTab70)

The Raven Flag
Rotary Club Flag Presentation (Michael Orelove)
Flags in Ireland: A Field Report, Installment 3 (Ted Kaye)
Face Flags of Washington: Seattle (Scott Mainwaring)
New Flag–Reno, Nevada

Vexilloid Tabloid #69, April 2018 (tag: VexTab69)

The Korean Unity Flag (Ted Kaye)
Flags in Ireland: A Field Report, Installment 2 (Ted Kaye)
Flags for All Seasons, Take 2 (Scott Mainwaring)
Flags along I-5 in Oregon (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #68, February 2018 (tag: VexTab68)

Of Arms and Silks (David Ferriday)
Flags in Ireland: A Field Report, Installment 1 (Ted Kaye)
A New Flag for Coral Springs, Florida (Scott Mainwaring)
Forthcoming Books (Scott Mainwaring)
Sutherlin — City of Flags (Michael Orelove)

Vexilloid Tabloid #67, December 2017 (tag: VexTab67)

A Theory of City SOB Flags (Ted Kaye)
The Flag Fusions of Pedro Lasch (Scott Mainwaring)
A New Flag for Burlington, Vermont (Ted Kaye)
Travels with Flags (Michael Orelove)
Oregon Flag Registry Update

Vexilloid Tabloid #66, October 2017 (tag: VexTab66)

When Cities Reject Their New Flags (Ted Kaye)
100 Days Action Resistance Flag (Cristina Victor)
The Mt. Rushmore State (Michael Orelove)
Vexiday: The Second World Vexillology Day in Portland (Scott Mainwaring)
ICV 27 Report–London 2017 (Ted Kaye)
A Flag to Commemorate the Arts and Sciences (David Ferriday)
The International Vegan Flag (John Niggley)

Vexilloid Tabloid #65, August 2017 (tag: VexTab65)

Flag Burning in Portland (Ted Kaye)
Kids’ Flags from Room 25, Oak Knoll Elementary, Menlo Park (Bill Quarré)
Chicago Flag Finds a New Home in Gresham (Michael Orelove)
Reimagining the Royal and Vice-Regal Flags of the Commonwealth (Max Liberman)
The OPEN Flag (Carl Gurtman)
Proposed “American Resistance Flag” (Howard J. Wilk)
Pocatello, Idaho, Replaces its Worst-in-the-Country Flag (Ted Kaye)

Vexilloid Tabloid #64, June 2017 (tag: VexTab64)

Capitols on Capital City Flags (Michael Orelove)
Redesigning the Oregon Flag (Liam Dubay)
Composable Alphabet Flags (Scott Mainwaring)
Portland Police Bureau Flag (Ted Kaye)

Vexilloid Tabloid #63, April 2017 (tag: VexTab63)

Learning from Labrador (Scott Mainwaring)
A Flag for Kaiapoi, Canterbury, New Zealand (John Moody)
The Wavy Symbolism of Potamological Vexillology–in Puerto Rico (Carlos Alberto Morales Ramirez)
An Enormous Romanian Flag Made of Light (Ted Kaye)
Burgees of the Portland Area
Art in Second Life (David Koski)

Vexilloid Tabloid #62, February 2017 (tag: VexTab61)

The Origin of the PFA (Ted Kaye)
Book Review: 50 Facts You May Not Know About the Confederate Flag (Ted Kaye)
Alternative Flags for Earth
Update on Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Proposed Flag
Does the Deep Sea Need a Flag? (Carlos Alberto Morales Ramirez)
William & Mary … and St. Andrew (David Ferriday)

Vexilloid Tabloid #61, December 2016 (tag: VexTab61)

Whitney Smith, 1940-2016
Flag Change in Columbia, South Carolina (Ted Kaye)
The Fleur-de-Lis: From Lys to Lis, or from Flower to Emblem (Patrice de La Condamine)
Vexiday: The First World Vexillology Day (Scott Mainwaring)
Michael Orelove’s Burgees Make Port (Michael Orelove)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #60, October 2016 (tag: VexTab60)

1 October Is World Vexillology Day (Scott Mainwaring)
How Albany, Oregon, Got a Flag (Cole Pouliot)
The Flag of Null Island (Ted Kaye)
1993 Proposals for Macau’s Flag (Patrick Genna)
Powell Boulevard’s Flag Parade (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #59, August 2016 (tag: VexTab59)

Introduction: The 15th Anniversary of 9/11 (Ted Kaye)
Ice Cream Flags (David Koski)
Memories from a Flag Store on the Morning of 9/11 (Michael Hale)
The Flags of Boys State in Salem (Ted Kaye and Brian McKinley)
Biogeographical Vexillology of Puerto Rico (Carlos Alberto Morales Ramirez)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #58, June 2016 (tag: VexTab58)

Introduction: NZ, VT, and Albany (Ted Kaye)
A U.S. Canton Honoring Alaska (Michael Orelove)
A Flag for the Other Portland (Ted Kaye)
Czech Municipal Flags (interview with Petr Exner by Scott Mainwaring)
Redesigning the U.S. Flag (Scott Mainwaring)
New Flags for Australia’s States? (Max Liberman)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #57, April 2016 (tag: VexTab57)

Introduction: Psephology and NZ; Mississippi (Ted Kaye)
How would you re-design the US flag?
Plan to attend NAVA 50 this October in San Jose
State of Jefferson’s Symbols Evolve (Ted Kaye)
Feature Article: New Zealand’s Flag Referendum and Theories of Voting (Erik Herron)
Flag Design Questions (Max Pickering)
South Bend, Indiana Has a New flag
Vexillographic Doughnuts for the PIFF
“Get Well” Flags (Michael Orelove)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #56, February 2016 (tag: VexTab56)

The Mere-Exposure Effect (Ted Kaye)
Flags for the Year 2016 (David Koski and Scott Mainwaring)
Counterchanged Flags (David Koski)
Flag for Cascadia by Night (Random Pendragon)
Swastikas in Japan (Alexander Baretich)
There Is No Flag Large Enough… (Scott Mainwaring)
Taíno Heritage in Puerto Rican Flags (Carlos Alberto Morales Ramírez)
Field Report — New Zealand (Ted Kaye)
Flag for The River of the Mind (Casey Sims)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #55, December 2015 (tag: VexTab55)

City Flag Redesign (Ted Kaye)
Field Report: New England & Canada (Michael Orelove)
Field Report: Australia (Ted Kaye)
Great Flag Resources on the Web

The Vexilloid Tabloid #54, October 2015 (tag: VexTab54)

New Zealand’s Flag Change (Ted Kaye)
Digitally Reimagining the US Flag (Scott Mainwaring)
The Red Cross Flag (Michael Orelove)
The Timber’s Army Flag

The Vexilloid Tabloid #53, August 2015 (tag: VexTab53)

The Confederate Flag Flap (Ted Kaye)
Flags of the Rose Festival Fleet (Scott Mainwaring)
A Flag for Pluto (Scott Mainwaring)
The Cascadian Nautical Flag (Alexander Baretich)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #52, June 2015 (tag: VexTab52)

A New Flag for Fiji–A Work in Progress (Ted Kaye)
US State Flag People: A Quiz (Scott Mainwaring)
Oregon Flag Registry Update
Washington Redux (Michael Orelove)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #51, April 2015 (tag: VexTab51)

The Oregon Flag Registry (Ted Kaye)
Las Banderas de Nuestros Hijos (book review)
The Portland Ska Flag (Casey Sims)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #50, February 2015 (tag: VexTab50)

The Vexilloid Tabloid at 50 Issues (Ted Kaye)
Provo Puts a Logo on a Bedsheet (Scott Mainwaring; previous blogged here)
A Flag’s Average Color (David Koski)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #49, December 2014 (tag: VexTab49)

The PFA Turns 20 (Ted Kaye and John Hood)
Bay Area Flag Report (Ted Kaye)
Flag Wrapping Paper (David Koski)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #48, October 2014 (tag: VexTab48)

Updating the Portland Flag’s Specs (Ted Kaye)
Raising the Alaska State Flag (Michael Orelove)
White Flags (Scott Mainwaring)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #47, August 2014 (tag: VexTab47)

The Canadian Native Flag (Curtis Wilson)
Toronto’s City Flag (Scott Mainwaring)
Nepal: One Flag – Four Hands (Michael Orelove)
Flags of “American Nations” (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #46, June 2014 (tag: VexTab46)

Remembering Sam Oakland (1934-2014)
Flags in the News: Ukraine Crisis
Recognizing the Malaysian Airliner Tragedy
Portland Flag T-shirts at City Club

The Vexilloid Tabloid #45, April 2014 (tag: VexTab45)

Ted Kaye’s field report on flags in Cuba
Flags as “organic nationalism”
Licensing the Portland flag
Flags at Portland fire stations

The Vexilloid Tabloid #44, February 2014 (tag: VexTab44)

The Wrong Dam Flag
Flags and the International Portland Review
The Portland Finial
Flags in the Portland mayor’s office

The Vexilloid Tabloid #43, December 2013 (tag: VexTab43)

Thai Vexillological Assn–PFA Ties
Michael Orelove’s Oregon Flag
Rainbow State Flags
Buona Bandiera, Brutta Bandiera

The Vexilloid Tabloid #42, October 2013 (tag: VexTab42)

The PFA Joins FIAV
The “Kingdom of Wallachia”
Gastro-Vexillology
Flags in the Books
Flags on a Baltic Cruise

The Vexilloid Tabloid #41, August 2013

Updating the Portland Flag’s Specs?
Flags at Camp Withycombe
Constitution of the PFA
A Newspaper Editor’s International Flags

The Vexilloid Tabloid #40, June 2013 (PDF, 1.6MB)

The Colors of Portland’s Flag (Ted Kaye)
A Mysterious Flag? (Sophie Rault)
John Hood’s Flags

The Vexilloid Tabloid #39, April 2013 (PDF, 2.0MB)

The Barbara Frietchie Story: Bogus (Ted Kaye)
The American Braille Flag
Portland Flag Miscellany

The Vexilloid Tabloid #38, February 2013 (PDF, 1.7MB)

A Fine for NOT Flying a Flag (Ted Kaye)
Flags for TV Shows (Jason Sturgill)
The Chicago Flag — Anticipating Future Events (Michael Orelove)
Portland Flag Miscellany (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #37, December 2012 (PDF, 1.4MB)

Flag Quotes (Ted Kaye)
Flags in Chile — A Sampler (Ted Kaye)
Hoover Dam Flags (Michael Orelove)
Astoria’s Scandinavian Flags
Portland Flag Miscellany (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #36, October 2012 (PDF, 2.4MB)

PFA and FIAV
Troutdale Flag Parade (Michael Orlove)
Cascadia (from the Cascadia Information Project)
Portland Flag Miscellany (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #35, August 2012 (PDF, 2.5MB)

Turn-of-the-century “Yiddish Flag” Protest (Patrick Genna)
Elmer’s Flag and Banner in the Oregonian
Flag Retirement Ceremony
Mystery Flags

The Vexilloid Tabloid #34, June 2012 (PDF, 2.8MB)

South Dakota Proposal (Patrick Genna)
Mystery Flag (Michael Orelove)
Portland Cheers

The Vexilloid Tabloid #33, April 2012 (PDF, 1.6MB)

Good Flag, Bad Flag (Ted Kaye)
Imperial Standards (Patrick Genna)
Breton Thanks (Alain Raullet)
Detroit, Michigan

The Vexilloid Tabloid #32, February 2012 (PDF, 2.3MB)

Joining FIAV
Russian Political Party Flags 1989-present (Patrick Genna)
A Chinese Flag-Making Kit
Portland Flag Sightings

The Vexilloid Tabloid #31, December 2011 (PDF, 1.1MB)

A Flag for All Mankind in the 21st Century (David W. Ferriday)
Japanese Battle Standards (Patrick Genna)
Remembering John Hood
Book Review: New Wave – Facts about Flags (Ted Kaye)
The Seal of the State of Jefferson (Michael Orelove)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #30, October 2011 (PDF, 0.7MB)

Obituary: John Hood 1934-2011
In John Hood’s Footsteps (Ted Kaye)
United Nations Flag Project (Michael Orelove)
Honoring the Designer of the “new” Oregon State Flag
Old Glory Afghan (Michael Orelove)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #29, November 2010 (PDF, 2.5MB)

Editor Wanted (John Hood)
How Elements of Design Work (Patrick Genna)
Travels with Michael (Michael Orelove)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #28, September 2010 (PDF, 2.3MB)

Oregon Flag Registry (Ted Kaye)
The Neutral Flags Fraud: How the new U.S. flag perpetuated the slave trade on behalf of the British Empire (Patrick Genna)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #27, July 2010 (PDF, 2.8MB)

Let Your Flags Wave (John Hood)
Flag Retirement Ceremony (Michael Orelove)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #26, May 2010 (PDF, 2.7MB)

We Have a Flag — Now What? (John Hood & Max Liberman)
Review of El libro del conocimiento de todos los reinos (The Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms) edited and translated by Nancy Marino (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #25, March 2010 (PDF, 3.3MB)

The Agony and Ecstasy of Choosing a Flag (John Hood)
Michael Orelove is at it Again
Women in Our Early Flag History (Marshall Goldberg)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #24, January 2010 (PDF, 2.1MB)

A Ramble on Design Rules (David Rudolf Koski)
A Flag from the Low-Lands (adapted from the Flags of the World website)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #23, October 2009 (PDF, 2.9MB)

The Sàmi Flag (Marshall Goldberg)
Portland’s Neighborhood Flags (John Hood)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #22, July 2009 (PDF, 3.8MB)

King Maximilian Starts His Own Country! (Max Liberman)
Nicknames of Flags (John Hood)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #21, April 2009 (PDF, 1.2MB)

The Sun in Flags (Robert Stephens)
Obituary: Douglas Lynch, 1913-2009 (Ted Kaye)
Inauguration Flags

The Vexilloid Tabloid #20, January 2009 (PDF, 3.7MB)

My Encounter With a Flag (John Schilke)
Flags Around Town and Elsewhere (John Hood)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #19, October 2008 (PDF, 0.8MB)

Flag Flying Days (John Hood)
Review of Keim & Keim’s A Grand Old Flag: A History of the United States through its Flags (Ted Kaye)
Review of Taylor, Kendrick, & Brodie’s The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon (John Hood)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #18, July 2008 (PDF, 1.4MB)

The Final Finial Finale (John Hood)
Flag Society of Australia turns 25!
An Astronomically Correct Flag of Alaska (Michael Orelove)
John “The Flagman” Gazman’s Proposed State Flag Changes

The Vexilloid Tabloid #17, April 2008 (PDF, 1.3MB)

GOOGLE-MANIA: Following the Yellow Brick Road from Pulaski and Plagues to Hillary and NAFTA (Marshall Goldberg)
World Flag Update (John Carroll)
The Seasons (Scott Mainwaring)
Obituary: Harry Oswald, 1927-2008

The Vexilloid Tabloid #16, January 2008 (PDF, 2.0MB)

One World, One Flag (Paul Carroll)
Review of Henricks, Hirasuna, & Heffernan’s Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag (John Hood)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #15, October 2007 (PDF, 3.4MB)

A New Flag for North America? (Ted Kaye)
Timberline Lodge Celebrates 70 Years of Doug Lynch’s Art! (John Hood)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #14, July 2007 (PDF, 1.6MB)

Portland Flag Association Teaching Flag (Michael Orelove)
A Flag for the Portland Flag Association (John Hood)
Some Old Designs for New Flags (John Hood/James Barker)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #13, April 2007 (PDF, 1.7MB)

A Flag for Maturín, Venezuela (Ted Kaye)
Banner Babble (Vivian Jackson)
Offerings from Elsewhere: Tibetan Prayer Flags and the “First Navy Jack” (Harry Oswald)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #12, January 2007 (PDF, 2.5MB)

Designing Flags for Fun and Exercise (Doug Lynch & John Hood)
Confusable Flags (Scott Mainwaring)
The Most Dangerous Flag in the World (Michael Orelove)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #11, October 2006 (PDF, 0.9MB)

Stellar Flags (Scott Mainwaring)
Pirate Flags, or What Johnny Depp Didn’t Tell You (Michael Hale)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #10, July 2006 (PDF, 2.5MB)

Banner Babble (Vivian Jackson)
Review of Ed Jackson’s Hallowed Banners: Historic Flags in the Georgia Capitol Collection (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #9, April 2006 (PDF, 1.0MB)

Pax Cultura: A Red Crystal of Culture (Scott Mainwaring)
Review of Kevin Harrington’s Sweden’s Story in Over 450 Flags (Vol. 1) (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #8, January 2006 (PDF, 1.2MB)

The World’s Largest Kite is a Mega Flag (Mike Hale)
New International Flag: The Red Crystal (John Hood)
A Doggerel about a Finial for Maryland (Marshall Goldberg)
Review of John M. Coski’s The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem (Ted Kaye)

The Vexilloid Tabloid #7, October 2005 (PDF, 0.9MB)