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Platystemon posted:It looks like the banner of an upper-mid-market hotel. It's still superior to half the rest of American state flags, which are all just a guy and a tree on a blue background
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The right one looks like something you'd put on a t-shirt sold by an Old Navy like store and give to someone you don't really care about that much as a gift.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Is this what flags will all look like in a hundred years? Airline logos? That's what a state flag is.
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Rassle posted:The right one looks like something you'd put on a t-shirt sold by an Old Navy like store and give to someone you don't really care about that much as a gift.
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Aug 26, 2020 05:38
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The shield one looks like the logo for an evangelical church.
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Aug 26, 2020 05:40
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starksfergie posted:As a huge flag dork, I was very happy to see that the Isle of Skye confirmed its own flag this week! Phlegmish posted:It's still superior to half the rest of American state flags, which are all just a guy and a tree on a blue background  expressions, sur une plat azure.
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Guavanaut posted:No ring 2/10 That cat has seen something so amazing its brain is exploding in three different directions. (Maybe it just realised it's sitting on a mutant swiss army knife that's piercing a giant eyeball.)
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Phlegmish posted:It's still superior to half the rest of American state flags, which are all just a guy and a tree on a blue background It occurred to me that I didn't know what the two dates on my home state's flag meant, and lol just lol:  First off, we adopted this flag at the same time we opted to join the Confederacy. The date on the bottom is the date we seceded from the Union. The top date is the date of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, which I had never heard of: quote:The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is a text published in 1819 with the claim that it was the first declaration of independence made in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. It was supposedly signed on May 20, 1775, in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a committee of citizens of Mecklenburg County, who declared independence from Great Britain after hearing of the battle of Lexington. If the story is true, the Mecklenburg Declaration preceded the United States Declaration of Independence by more than a year. The authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration has been disputed since it was published, forty-four years after it was reputedly written. There is no verifiable evidence to confirm the original document's existence and no reference to it has been found in extant newspapers from 1775. We talked about the state seal in history class and learned, like, the state seashell and poo poo, but we definitely never learned anything about the flag and now I know why!
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Incidentally, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence thing reminds me strongly of NC's ongoing dispute with Ohio over who gets to claim the Wright Brothers. Our license plates say "First in Flight," theirs say "Birthplace of Aviation," and they loving haaaate that NC is more strongly associated with the first flight than they are. They slapped an astronaut next to a biplane on their state quarter just to shore up their bona fides in this extremely pointless debate.
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American state flags also too often commit the sin of including unnecessary text, in my opinion. Let's take a look at Palau's flag:  You can argue about the aesthetic qualities of the elements in isolation, but on the whole, and in context, I think it's a good flag. Very simple, basically containing just a circle, but also highly evocative in a way that makes sense. You immediately and automatically get the impression of a bright, sunny day, implying an idyllic island paradise, which is good since so much of their economy is based on tourism. It's very easy to draw and reproduce, even if you might not end up with a perfect circle. I give this flag a score of 8.5/10. Now imagine they put an Austronesian pioneer in the upper left corner, a palm tree in the upper right corner, added a Union Jack overlay, and at the bottom included text reading EST. 1994 COME VISIT SUNNY PALAU Congratulations, you've ruined your flag, it's garbage now. And yet, there are so many flags around the world that are close to that description. e: alright I looked it up and the intended symbolism of Palau's flag is somewhat different, but it doesn't really matter, the effect is the same. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Guavanaut posted:No ring 2/10 Not enough dongs to be a representative example
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Phlegmish posted:Let's take a look at Palau's flag: Neat, it's Ukraine in polar coordinates.
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showbiz_liz posted:Incidentally, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence thing reminds me strongly of NC's ongoing dispute with Ohio over who gets to claim the Wright Brothers. Our license plates say "First in Flight," theirs say "Birthplace of Aviation," and they loving haaaate that NC is more strongly associated with the first flight than they are. They slapped an astronaut next to a biplane on their state quarter just to shore up their bona fides in this extremely pointless debate. It's Connecticut, anyway
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Is this what flags will all look like in a hundred years? Airline logos? airline logos will instead start to look like bad local flags 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Is this what flags will all look like in a hundred years? Airline logos? Go and look at all of the Japanese regional/city flags. Just all logos on fields.
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showbiz_liz posted:It occurred to me that I didn't know what the two dates on my home state's flag meant, and lol just lol: NC seceded in 1776? They really got started early.
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Badger of Basra posted:NC seceded in 1776? They really got started early. Oop I completely bungled this, was looking at a source on an older version of the flag which did use the Confederacy date. Forgive my moronacity.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:21
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There are a ton of confederate regimental flags that have 1776 and 1861 on them. Also sometimes 1789.
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loving lol @ 1789 liberté (mais pas pour toi), egalité (pas pour toi), fraternité (pas pour toi)
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Could I get some criticisms on the flag I want to make for my home gym in Wisconsin?
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"The Pumping Iron Curtain"
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The Workout Paradise
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UncleButts posted:Could I get some criticisms on the flag I want to make for my home gym in Wisconsin? The raised fist, star, and red background aren't bad in themselves, but the current design is just too similar to many other flags/posters. It's uninspired and generic at this point. If people see this they're going to think it was made by another Internet leftist trying to be edgy but who doesn't have enough spoons to put real effort into it. The 'solidarity' text also seems unnecessary, it's already implied by the other elements. Definitely get rid of it - that would additionally give you more ambiguity and plausible deniability towards the less politically tuned-in, if that's what you're after. What I would do is keep the fist and red background, and the star if you really want to, but rework it so that it's clear that it's for a gym. You're missing an element that would make it stand out in a fitting way. Maybe the fist is holding a dumbbell, something like that. That'll be €69, and €4.20 for expenses Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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Phlegmish posted:The raised fist, star, and red background aren't bad in themselves, but the current design is just too similar to many other flags/posters. It's uninspired and generic at this point. If people see this they're going to think it was made by another Internet leftist trying to be edgy but who doesn't have enough spoons to put real effort into it. Did you miss that the fist is Wisconsin
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Aug 27, 2020 18:36
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I completely missed that. Alright, he gets a discount. That's good though, keep that.
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That's a flag version of the coat of arms of the city of Oran during French Algeria. I think it's been built out of mismatched elements from other flags/coat of arms. The boat looks like the one from New Brunswick, and the lions are now purple? That tower design is quite distinctive, too.
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Just more flags and emblems that suffer from being far too busy, even if the individual elements and colors are acceptable. e: the first one in particular, there's just no coherence at all. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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Aug 27, 2020 20:37
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Needs more flags in it.
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Guavanaut posted:Needs more flags in it. lol You know, maybe if it turns into flagception it loops back around to artful e: yo dawg I heard you like flags
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Guavanaut posted:Needs more flags in it. Ah, the former canadian flag's seal.
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Stoic. That's all you I've got to say about it. I see a hard nosed short man as the governor of the Provence. A solid 6/12 on the flag scale WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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UncleButts posted:Could I get some criticisms on the flag I want to make for my home gym in Wisconsin? "Clean and jerk off".
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Question: Are you ready for the paradigm shift of animated flags, Coming SoonTM. Finally we won't have to choose a single design for a flag, we can have them all.
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Phlegmish posted:Just more flags and emblems that suffer from being far too busy, even if the individual elements and colors are acceptable. That's why my favorite flag is the 48 star US flag. It's basically perfect. I'm completely serious. Simple, coherent, symmetrical, powerful, honest.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:That's why my favorite flag is the 48 star US flag. It's basically perfect. I'm completely serious. The American flag is like the Beatles. Its very good but its also extremely famous so flag nerds have to show off about how bad it is so everyone thinks "hmmm this guy knows something I don't"
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Safety Biscuits posted:"Clean and jerk off". "Public jerking zone"
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:The American flag is like the Beatles. Its very good but its also extremely famous so flag nerds have to show off about how bad it is so everyone thinks "hmmm this guy knows something I don't" Shoulda kept adding stripes for each state imo.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:The American flag is like the Beatles. Its very good but its also extremely famous so flag nerds have to show off about how bad it is so everyone thinks "hmmm this guy knows something I don't" It's not awful, but I do think it suffers from a case of too many stars and perhaps also too many stripes. It's like they didn't know when to stop. Now take Liberia's flag, it's like the American flag after a decent (flag) editor's had their say, which makes it superior in my eyes. The US flag does have the contextual advantage of not having been incorporated by dozens of different countries/administrative units (with the exception of the aforementioned Liberia and a few others), unlike the Union Jack, so there is less aesthetical inflation.
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