CLARK’S HARBOUR, NS (Canada)
Design 1b
Modern Cape Islander
Vexillology
All about flags
Proposed Flag for Clark’s Harbour – Design 1a
CLARK’S HARBOUR, NS (Canada)
Design 1a
Official symbols
Concepts for a Bridgewater (Nova Scotia) Flag without Text
The town of Bridgewater in Nova Scotia recently polled about three flag redesigns it was doing. Very unfortunately, all three had a lot of text on it that doesn’t read legitimately from the reverse side, from which flags can often be seen. Worse, that text was not just a word or two, it was multiple words, on multiple baselines, in multiple fonts that included italics, multiple font weights, multiple font colours that included a hard to read grey, multiple sizes, and even multiple capitalizations! Basically, everything that could be done wrong with text was done incorrectly. This, despite the Town Council having read good flag design principles in one of the standard manuals for such things called Good Flag, Bad Flag. I also have evidence from my own and others’ studies that text on a flag is the worse design feature it could have in terms of being rated well by the general public. The Town Council had deemed their case an exception, apparently, according to their Communications Officer on Facebook. I’m not sure how, as no explanation was given, but it was exceptionally… bad, to paraphrase Snoop Dog in some recent beer commercial, though unlike Snoop, this was not a personal opinion. Data from thousands of survey raters around the world on over 500 flags deemed this.
US and Canadian Municipal Flags Interactive Education Tool
Can you name 500 US cities and towns? What about 300 Canadian municipalities (cities, towns, villages, etc.)? For what you can name, can you picture their flags?
Demo Interactive Education Tool for National Flags
When you look up some flags, you often get a webpage, or list if it were a part of a group or you had searched the group, and links to the place the flag represents. Sometimes, you’ll get a map with some flags, and be able to download a graphic. That lack of consistency was frustrating to me, as was the large lack of information about flag design components and other flags with similar features, for design research and/or inspiration to avoid duplication or find inspiration among variations. So in the winter of 2023, I designed and build interactive online displays that would contain it all, as well as be able to grow and change over time as the information changes. I did this using the Tableau Public platform, and the first result was this demo using national flags as a set.
Digital Citizen 