Toronto Maple Leafs (unofficial)
It’s playoff season, which means the whole city of Toronto is going hockey crazy. As I’ve been walking around town, I’ve been seeing Maple Leafs flags flying all over. There are actually a whole bunch of different designs, but this one is by far the coolest. It takes the Canadian flag and gives it a Toronto coat of paint.
The Toronto Street Flags I designed for Spacing were featured in the Toronto Star today. I’ve put the 22 of the flags I’ve made so far up on my website.
The good folks at Spacing have put my Toronto street flags up on their blog. Go check it out! Love these guys.
Metropolitan Toronto (?-1997)
Before Amalgamation, Toronto was a two-tier municipality, with Metropolitan Toronto being the upper level. Metro’s logo was made up of six interlocking rings, representing Etobicoke, York, Scarborough, North York, East York, and the old City of Toronto.
I’m not quite sure when this flag was adopted, but I live like ten minutes from the city archives so I could probably figure it out if I wasn’t such a lazy jerk.
Attention Torontonians! The winter issue of Spacing Magazine comes out today and it features a bunch of flags I designed for the city’s streets and community councils. If you’re in town then go and pick up a copy. Not only will you get to see some totally sweet flags (if I do say so myself) but you will also get to see some totally sweet articles on urban design. HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
you don’t really appreciate how hard it is to photograph several flags until they all do their own thing in the wind like a bunch of jerks
The 81 year old time capsule unearthed at Maple Leaf Gardens was shown off to the public this week. One of the items inside was this small Canadian flag. It’s not tremendously detailed, but you can see that the leaves on the coat of arms aren’t red yet. That change came in 1957.
