Nawlins is much more interesting than its flag.
Huh. Never heard of that. Interesting!
No. Both those flags and many Japanese corporate logos are based off, or in the style of, the traditional Japanese crests, called mon. They fulfill the same role as coats of arms in Europe, but with a fairly different design sensibility. Abstraction is common, as is a sort of elaborate calligraphic play with character forms (I mean, you wouldn’t say thiswas calligraphy, would you?). While a lot of these *technically *violate precept #4 (No Lettering), I feel the abstraction compensates and they get a pass.
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The reason you feel they were designed by committee is because they all partake in the same, highly stylized, design language. Possibly also because it’s a foreign style to you so the nuances escape you. As far as I know, there wasn’t any central planning for the Japanese municipal flags (If you could show different, by all means do so)
That’s kind of what cities and prefectures *are *(well, national conglomerate) See: Precept #5
ETA: also, note how many of them echo the layout of Japan’s own, awesome flag (possibly the best country flag, certainly in the top 3)
Cornwall, England; we kinda have two, both dead simple, both largely black.
One for the county, one for the Duchy. The county one is really common, as a flag, bumper sticker, and on tourist tat, the Duchy flag is only really used as a flag on bits of the Duchy estate, but the crest version is pretty common on things, especially council run things. Apparently the yellow circles represent coins…
Is it an optical illusion, or are the balls in the top row smaller than the single ball on the bottom?
Hmm… Good point- the circles (apparently supposed to represent coins) in the top row do look smaller than the rest. I think that may be an error, as that doesn’t seem to be the case for other versions I’ve seen. Googling it though, there are a few more pictures with the top row smaller, although most don’t. Interesting.
There is no flag so simple that someone can’t screw it up.
It’s not an optical illusion; I just took a screen shot and played around with Paint, and the circles in the top row really are smaller than the ones on the bottom.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it yet. But Detroit sure has a city flag. Here.
I don’t know if I ever said this before. I have lived in Detroit since I was born.
Yeah, some people think the Latin motto It Shall Rise From the Ashes has proven prophetic on more than one occasion. I don’t believe in magic or fate. But still, why not?
Ugly-ass flag, but I have an affinity for Detroit, and I do feel it will rise again.
Thanks. I won’t run off to my eye doctor just yet, then. The blazon apparently doesn’t say the circles should be of different sizes: Coat of arms of the Prince of Wales - Wikipedia
Not only is it a cool flag, but it’s why all of our sports teams are black and gold.
I’ve lived here a long time, didn’t realize we had a flag. I would have guessed it would feature something that bites, stings, or pokes.
YIKES!!!
A vexillologist"s nightmare.
Looks more like a postcard than a flag.
No disrespect intended for your city or its many fine citizens,** Spoons**, but that is one crap-ass flag. Far too busy, and visually disorganized, what with the blue and white geometric design in the canton, and the different sizes of stripes in the field. Whoosh, that’s a mess.
That would be pretty cool, were it not for the blue and white bar chequy in the middle of the blazon. That, combined with the yellow and black, puts me in mind of a taxicab.
Charlotte has two. One is the official flag and the other is basically the logo of the city government.
Montreal has a very distinctive flag. Until two years ago it was cut in four by a read cross. The four corners represented the 4 founding ethnic groups: A fleur-de-lys for the French, a rose for the English, a shamrock for the Irish, and a thistle for the Scots. Two years ago (I discovered this just now when a googled it) they added a pine tree symbolizing the natives in the middle where the two arms of the cross meet. Representatives of the native groups chose the symbol.
Just learned that Tennessee’s legislature has its own flag. Any other state legislatures have their own flags?
I know the U.S. House and Senate do:
Boise’s is apparently just a blue-and-white image of the capitol building with some trees around it with text in front of it. Because we’re the state capital and called “the city of trees” and all.
For most of my life it was a just the state seal, which was a somewhat busy affair with two dudes standing around a heraldic shield with some other stuff around it.
The City of Sacramento official flag.
Apparently the two blue fields represent the two rivers that flow through the city, the green area represents the city’s agriculture heritage, and the gold area represents…well…gold.
I can’t recall ever seeing the flag being flown anywhere in the city.
Tampa can’t use the 1970s as an excuse. The flag has been this spectacularly bad since 1930. (Not “my” city, but shouldn’t go unmentioned)
I came here to post this too. I rarely see this flag flying. This SF Examiner (newspaper) article is trying to change The City’s flag — it shows the flag flying.