sc49erfan15 1,659 Posted June 26, 2018 5 minutes ago, TheGiantsFan said: http://www.montereyherald.com/article/NF/20180625/NEWS/180629915 My county here in California recently had a flag design contest, so I gave it a shot with a rather minimalist design that I attached below. However, the result finally came out three months later, and I'm thoroughly disappointed "Three area artists will have their work incorporated into the first official Monterey County flag." First place: Second place: It doesn't list the third one, but if it's like the first two... yecch. These violate just about every flag design guideline imaginable. Text? Check! Lots of colors? Check! Images that won't be legible while viewing it on a flagpole from the ground? Check! I can only imagine the abomination that will result from combining the three together. Despite only knowing a little about the Monterey/Salinas area (Big Sur, mountainous coast) it's obvious that your design incorporates those elements and is miles better than the absolute garbage that won. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tigers 283 Posted June 26, 2018 2 hours ago, sc49erfan15 said: "Three area artists will have their work incorporated into the first official Monterey County flag." First place: Second place: It doesn't list the third one, but if it's like the first two... yecch. These violate just about every flag design guideline imaginable. Text? Check! Lots of colors? Check! Images that won't be legible while viewing it on a flagpole from the ground? Check! I can only imagine the abomination that will result from combining the three together. Despite only knowing a little about the Monterey/Salinas area (Big Sur, mountainous coast) it's obvious that your design incorporates those elements and is miles better than the absolute garbage that won. If you have to put the name on there somewhere, then you should already realize there's a problem. One element they should use is the Coast Line. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goalieboy82 800 Posted July 29, 2018 old flag of Portugal (last flag when it was still a Kingdom) 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goalieboy82 800 Posted July 29, 2018 my personal favorite flag: 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChicagoOakland 1,191 Posted July 29, 2018 UPDATE: Rochester, Minnesota is down to two finalists to replace it's flag. If you forgot what Rochester's flag looked like, here ya go: 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Tsubasa 106 Posted July 31, 2018 On 7/30/2018 at 8:32 AM, ChicagoOakland said: UPDATE: Rochester, Minnesota is down to two finalists to replace it's flag. If you forgot what Rochester's flag looked like, here ya go: Both of them would be a huge improvement over their current flag. I am hoping the goose flag gets the nod, as I feel it has a bit more personality. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hettinger_rl 1,144 Posted August 18, 2018 Sioux Falls SD adopted a new city flag: http://www.ksfy.com/content/news/Sioux-Falls-City-Council-approves-city-flag-487880671.html 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
monkeypower 1,906 Posted August 18, 2018 Here's Calgary's flag. It's hard to tell here on the white background of the of the site, but there's a strip of white above and below the red. It looks like it could have been a logo for the Calgary Cowboys WHA team. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 293 Posted August 19, 2018 On 8/17/2016 at 10:05 AM, Ferdinand Cesarano said: Also, the U.S. flag is a mess from a design standpoint. Placing it next to a superbly-designed flag such as Canada's only underscores how horrid it is. Ha! I am a non American that has always liked the flag. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChicagoOakland 1,191 Posted August 21, 2018 On 8/18/2018 at 4:48 PM, monkeypower said: Here's Calgary's flag. It's hard to tell here on the white background of the of the site, but there's a strip of white above and below the red. It looks like it could have been a logo for the Calgary Cowboys WHA team. Jeez, Arby's in Canada is weird. 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broken Record 154 Posted August 24, 2018 On 8/20/2018 at 9:31 PM, ChicagoOakland said: Jeez, Arby's in Canada is weird. Calgary. We have the meats, eh? 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goalieboy82 800 Posted August 25, 2018 9 hours ago, Broken Record said: Calgary. We have the meats, eh? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pharos04 699 Posted September 10, 2018 Just poking around on some flags and I stumbled across a neat thing that's done in Timor-Leste. All the municipalities utilize the Hoist emblem on their flags! Some look good. Others...could've been done differently National Flag Municipalities 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pianoknight 2,804 Posted September 10, 2018 5 hours ago, Pharos04 said: Just poking around on some flags and I stumbled across a neat thing that's done in Timor-Leste. All the municipalities utilize the Hoist emblem on their flags! Some look good. Others...could've been done differently National Flag Municipalities That's a really cool concept. It's like a modern version of the British Empire slapping Union Jacks onto the canton of everyone's flag. 6 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sc49erfan15 1,659 Posted September 11, 2018 On 9/10/2018 at 10:28 AM, Pharos04 said: Just poking around on some flags and I stumbled across a neat thing that's done in Timor-Leste. All the municipalities utilize the Hoist emblem on their flags! Some look good. Others...could've been done differently Municipalities Apparently Timor-Leste is counting Arizona as a municipality. But yeah, cool concept. Some of them work, some don't. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LMU 5,940 Posted September 11, 2018 6 hours ago, sc49erfan15 said: Apparently Timor-Leste is counting Arizona as a municipality. The forgotten part of the Zimmerman Telegram. 7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Foxxtrot44 427 Posted September 14, 2018 Get your designs ready. Salt Lake is getting ready to ditch its abominable flag https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/09/04/salt-lake-citys/ 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broken Record 154 Posted September 17, 2018 On 9/14/2018 at 1:20 AM, Foxxtrot44 said: Get your designs ready. Salt Lake is getting ready to ditch its abominable flag https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/09/04/salt-lake-citys/ Interesting article. What is even more interesting is the study linked from it. https://nava.org/digital-library/raven/Raven_v12_2005_p027-062.pdf 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dont care 3,641 Posted September 18, 2018 I recently ran a 9-11 5k and some one was running with a flag I’ve never seen before and wondered what it was and what it had to do with 9-11. It had 5 green and white stripes and a flash of blue with a bunch of stars (don’t know how many) does anyone know what this flag is and what it’s suppose to represent? 0 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pharos04 699 Posted September 18, 2018 1 hour ago, dont care said: I recently ran a 9-11 5k and some one was running with a flag I’ve never seen before and wondered what it was and what it had to do with 9-11. It had 5 green and white stripes and a flash of blue with a bunch of stars (don’t know how many) does anyone know what this flag is and what it’s suppose to represent? NYC Police Department 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
