It Turns Out People HAVE Heard of Juneteenth
Despite the current president saying “no one had ever heard” of Juneteenth, it has been around long enough to have its own excellent flag. According to the National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation, the iteration of the Texas state flag star is “bursting with new freedom throughout the land over a new horizon” and the red, white…
Take This Flag Day Quiz and Test Your American Flag Knowledge
Flags have never been more essential to social communication than they are in today’s tumultuous times. A flag signals identity, solidarity, distress, message, demand, protest and unity. Occasionally, all at the same time. That’s a big load for a single piece of cloth to carry. June 14 is designated as a day of awareness and recognition of the…
Coronavirus-Themed Flags Are a Thing 6
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the Maine Flag Company focused on making original Maine state and other custom flags. Now, the Portland, ME-based flag maker concentrates on producing Heart of it All flags. The red heart on a white flag symbolizes the local community’s “love for our many small businesses,” according to the company’s website. Since…
Coronavirus-Themed Flags Are a Thing 5
Kids in West Haven, CT, created several pieces of chalk art on a residential street on May 23, 2020. Among their virus-themed creations were a stylized American flag and a declarative graffito with arrows pointing upward in place of the letter “I”.
Coronavirus-Themed Flags Are a Thing 4
Flying this quarantine flag from your shelter in place location may be a public service. At the very least it would be a bold gesture that could save lives. The flag is intended to protect others, just like wearing a mask in public. Nevertheless, it could be a hard sell. The design leans heavily on…
Coronavirus-Themed Flags Are a Thing 3
Gulf News, a daily English-language newspaper published in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and distributed throughout the Persian Gulf countries, created this permutation of the European Union flag to accompany a March 19, 2020, story titled “Will European Union survive the coronavirus?” Four of the flag’s 12 stars (representing the original dozen member nations) have been…
Coronavirus-Themed Flags Are a Thing 2
Two Portuguese creatives now based in Germany created an art piece to remind the world to shelter in place during the pandemic. Hugo Suissas and Tiago Silva rendered national flags into stay at home reminders by adding pitched roofs which changed the individual images into stylized houses. This is an excellent example of good graphic…
Coronavirus-Themed Flags Are a Thing
On January 27, 2020, the plucky Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published an editorial cartoon of the Chinese flag to accompany a story about the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. The paper’s artist replaced the five stars on the Chinese flag with depictions of the pointy virus. The Chinese were not amused and demanded an apology from the…
Flags Are Always Conscripted During Times of Turmoil
The May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the hands (actually the knee) of police in Minneapolis, MN, engendered two disparate and distinct social movements across the country: a series of peaceful protests against police mistreatment of African Americans and the lawless destruction of property by organized squads of looters who used the peaceful…
In 1970, a Mom-Made Flag Became the Symbol for the Global Environmental Movement
April 22, 2020, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, passed with little fanfare. The Earth was using one of its limited supply of sick days to fight the ravages of a global pandemic. Another opportunity to celebrate our planet arrived six weeks later. June 5 is the annual World Environment Day, a United Nations-sponsored event…
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