I love your take on the English flag. Is this something you just one day decided to look into or was there a catalyst?
Thank you! Honestly, since I was very young I enjoyed maps, and flags, but never really looked into it. Once I got older, and found out about Vexillology, (via reddit) I was hooked. I have a collection of 35 various flags from around the world. Each week I display one in my living room on a blank wall. I try to incorporate it around certain holidays (Irish flag for St. Patricks day, Mexican flag for Cinco de Mayo etc)
Wow. It's fascinating how certain things just click with people in a way that makes that want to hold on to a subject for the rest of their lives.. Do you have a least favourite? I'm curious if there's a country that just sucks at flag-creation.
My favorite flag in the world is the flag of the Faroe Islands I think its just gorgeous, elegant, and vibrant. Honestly, the US is pretty bad when it comes to state/city flags. Either you get something beautiful like Maryland
or Tennessee Or its the opposite and you get a design abomination like West Virginia Or Montana
It is also argued that any flag with text on it is bad, so some of the Islamic groups and former soviet countries had text on the flag which is considered bad flag design.
I just want to say thank you for teaching me about an area of design I knew nothing about. This was really interesting! Cheers!
No problem! I could talk about this stuff all day!
I learned a lot from the reddit /r/vexillology forum. So much information in the side bar. Also, google and wiki work really well for just looking up history of flags.
Okay so you inspired me to start a vexillology blog :D http://vexillogic.blogspot.com/
I actually like their flag for how unique it is. Like Switzerland and their square flag.