CLARK’S HARBOUR, NS (Canada)
Design 4a
Square cross crosslet
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Proposed Flag for Clark’s Harbour – Design 3b
CLARK’S HARBOUR, NS (Canada)
Design 3b
Wavy Crosslet
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.
Nova Scotia’s CoViD-19 Story… in Verse
There once was a realm called Nova Scotia –
Which’s Premier asked the people not to roam –
In pandemic times of new corona –
This is their tale to #staytheblazeshome!
To prevent the spread of CoViD-19 –
They had to stay inside, with some, alone –
Until it was gone or came a vaccine –
They all would have to #staytheblazeshome!
They could still explore the world, see others –
Through Firefox, Facetime, Facebook, Skype, Edge, Chrome –
Each one on their own, or all together –
Connect with tech and #staytheblazeshome!
There were lots of other things to do, though –
If folks did not have internet or phones –
Arts, crafts, books, games, writing, music, puzzles –
So much to help them #staytheblazeshome!
Now, of course, they had to go out sometime –
But far too oft, and always with their phones –
Through which Google tracked them day and night time –
To show they did not #staytheblazeshome!
When the Premier saw this, he was livid –
He got on TV, his mouth frothed with foam –
Scolded those ignoring laws on CoViD –
And told them all to #staytheblazeshome!
Right away, the message resonated –
The world made memes, beers, songs, shirts, all things known –
Ev’ry thing with what the Premier stated –
His catchphrase hashtagged, #staytheblazeshome!
But unlike the virus that went viral –
His scolding’s biggest impact was in tone –
Worse and worse, the situation spiraled –
Folks yelled, but did not #staytheblazeshome!
So he sent police to ticket people –
For being where they’re not allowed to roam –
Or too close in public, or too social –
When they know well to #staytheblazeshome!
This worked well, and things reopened slowly –
Each step with rules, enough to make a tome –
To avoid more peaks and waves that’d only –
Return them all to #staytheblazeshome!
So did Nova Scotians follow plenty –
Enough to rid of CoViD from their home?
Will there be a Tales from CoViD 20?
One called You Did Not #staytheblazeshome!
Meh! For now, heed Nova Scotia’s screw-up –
As detailed in this cautionary poem –
To diminish such pandemics’ wallop –
Right from the start, ye #staytheblazeshome!
Digital Citizen 