Flaglog

Kenya Defence Forces Several Commonwealth militaries have a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:30:26 -0400

Several Commonwealth militaries have a tricolour flag that looks something like this. The red stripe stands for the army, the light blue stripe stands for the air force, and the dark blue stripe stands for the navy. Kenya’s version has the national flag in the top-left corner and a combined insignia of army, navy, and air force symbols on the fly.

Curiously, the ribbon on this image says “Kenya Armed Forces” instead of “Kenya Defence Forces”. I don’t know if it’s an old version of the flag or just a mistaken rendition or what.

teplin: PIZZASTAN

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:45:27 -0400

teplin:

PIZZASTAN

Haiti, 1964-1986 After becoming President for Life in 1964, Papa...

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:30:37 -0400

Haiti, 1964-1986

After becoming President for Life in 1964, Papa Doc Duvalier discarded Haiti’s red and blue colours (first flown in 1803) in favour of the red and black used by Jean-Jacques Dessalines when he proclaimed himself Emperor in 1804. The flag remained in use until the end of the Duvalier dictatorship.

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:45:36 -0400

Styria The Styrian flag is the only one I know of that features...

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:30:27 -0400

Styria

The Styrian flag is the only one I know of that features a panther. No, not the black jungle cat, the weird pale horned firebreathing goat creature of ancient legend. Those ancients sure came up with some weird shit.

alphatoronado: This game is just making things hard for me

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:45:28 -0400

alphatoronado:

This game is just making things hard for me

Tlicho, since 2005 The Tlicho are a First Nations people living...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:30:36 -0400

Tlicho, since 2005

The Tlicho are a First Nations people living in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Their autonomous government, established by the 2005 Tlicho Agreement, manages an area nearly as big as Switzerland with just 3000 residents.

They’ve got a great flag up their, and you can see a bunch of pictures of it on their government website. The four tents on the flag represent the four Tlicho communities. The sun and the waves represent the words of the Chief Monfwi when he signed Treaty No. 11:

This sun that rises, if it does not go back on itself, this Great River that flows, if it does not flow back on itself, on this land, we will not be restricted from our way of life.

For as long as this land shall last, it will be exactly as I have said.

The proper way to spell their name, by the way, is Tłı̨chǫ. Count yourself lucky if your computer rendered that properly.

dynamicafrica: Photo from French photographer Luc Choquer’s...

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:45:33 -0400

dynamicafrica:

Photo from French photographer Luc Choquer’s Potraits de Français.

Murrawarri Republic, since 2013 The Murrawarri people of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:30:20 -0400

Murrawarri Republic, since 2013

The Murrawarri people of Australia declared an independent republic earlier this month. I doubt we’re going to see a new country born any time soon, but we’ve at least gotten an interesting new flag out of it. The brown and blue stripes represent earth and sky, or the people and water. The white star represents ancestral spirits which return to the earth on shooting stars, and it has eight points for the eight Murrawarri clans.

cyclopschannel: Missing camp- the flags represent the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:45:20 -0400

cyclopschannel:

Missing camp- the flags represent the nationalities of campers and staff

Ontario (unofficial), 1962-1965 When the Garden of the Provinces...

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:30:24 -0400

Ontario (unofficial), 1962-1965

When the Garden of the Provinces in Ottawa was opened in 1962, a set of unofficial flags were made to represent the country’s provinces and territories. Each flag had a provincial shield on a plain coloured background. The colours were arbitrary. Some were white, some red, some blue; PEI’s was green and Ontario’s was yellow. The flags soon spread beyond the garden and effectively became unofficial provincial flags.

Already in 1962 there were four provinces with flags of their own. By the end of the decade every province had one. But despite provincial reservations, the federal government continued flying the plain coloured flags until the mid 1970s. When Alberta finally adopted its flag in 1968 it just went with the plain blue flag from Ottawa, making it the last survivor of a weird and somewhat unloved group of Canadian flag designs.

worldofflags: An old flag of Edam-Volendam, The Netherlands....

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:45:24 -0400

worldofflags:

An old flag of Edam-Volendam, The Netherlands. The bull and the foal are local emblems. Though this diagonally quartered flag was adopted in 1981, it was never used.

Samoa, since 1949 Samoa’s flag is based on the red ensign...

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:30:36 -0400

Samoa, since 1949

Samoa’s flag is based on the red ensign that was used during the British-administered League of Nations mandate. When the country became a UN Trust Territory after World War II, it replaced the British flag in the corner with a Southern Cross.

Even though all the overtly foreign symbols are gone, the colonial roots of the flag are still clearly visible. In recent years, opposition MPs have proposed changing the flag for this reason, but the idea hasn’t gotten much traction.

cupcakes105: I did this myself so cute love em great for...

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:45:35 -0400

cupcakes105:

I did this myself so cute love em great for summer

Nunavik (proposed), 2013 A bold proposal for the flag of Nunavik...

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:30:15 -0400

Nunavik (proposed), 2013

A bold proposal for the flag of Nunavik (an Inuit region in northern Quebec) made the news up north last week. There’s a lot of symbolism packed in here so I’ll let the designer explain in his own words:

The logo is based on and inspired from natural elements in Nunavik such as animals and the thriving co-existence of different creatures living in the same area. A shape of a bird with feathers reaching the sky indicate self-governance and freedom, the large wings show strength, the number of feathers correlate with the number of communities in Nunavik, both sides of the shape are symmetric promoting equality, and the dot represent a head and a mind fully supported by the body.

Two sides of the top part contain 5 fingers each as do our hands, the symbol can be seen as a person reaching upwards to pull himself up and forward. The shape is also inspired by caribou antlers growing alongside one another so they may be able to secure the caribou’s life.

I like this a whole lot. I think it’s one of the best pieces of flag design I’ve seen in ages. It feels almost like an Inuit version of Japanese logo-based flag design. Very striking, very unique, and I think it would look great up on a flagpole.

(designer: Thomassie Mangiok)

revolters: Flying Flags by Eddy Vaudel

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:45:18 -0400

revolters:

Flying Flags by Eddy Vaudel

Governor of Pennsylvania Just in case you were wondering, this...

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:30:42 -0400

Governor of Pennsylvania

Just in case you were wondering, this flag belongs to THE GOVERNOR.

“Hail the Flag” by Jerry Kan Chen Paraguayan youths...

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:45:42 -0400

“Hail the Flag” by Jerry Kan Chen

Paraguayan youths march in a bicentennial parade in Cuidad del Else, 2011.

Nova Scotia, since 1858 Nova Scotia has the oldest provincial...

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:30:23 -0400

Nova Scotia, since 1858

Nova Scotia has the oldest provincial flag in Canada (older than the country itself!) but it will only become official this year, thanks largely to the efforts of a grade 5 student. 11-year-old Regan Parker discovered during a research project that the flag of Nova Scotia had never been recognized by the provincial legislature. She brought the oversight up to her local MLA and he introduced the Provincial Flag Act, which passed its Third Reading this past Thursday.

The flag is a banner of Nova Scotia’s coat of arms, first granted all the way back in 1625. Other provinces have heraldic banners for flags, but Nova Scotia is the only one that never bothered with any kind of official authorization. Instead the public just kind of started using it on their own, beginning with the Nova Scotia Philanthropic Society in 1858 and continuing more or less uninterrupted to the present day.

gawgiaonyourmind: 1861 - Part of a Confederate flag given to...

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:45:26 -0400

gawgiaonyourmind:

1861 - Part of a Confederate flag given to Lawrence Cecil Berrien by a girlfriend when he left Savannah and carried by him during the war. Blue field with seven stars embroidered in a circle.

Picture courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society.