Roman Mars, host of “99% Invisible, a tiny radio show” points us to the often sad state of city flags and leads us through, “the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything.”
Above: A detail of the flag of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thanks to Wayne Belvin for pointing us to Roman Mars.
Roman Mars: “Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed”…
He describes his radio show, “99% Invisible, as a tiny radio show about design, architecture and the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world”…
A list of 99% Invisible Radio Episodes…
Got you interested in vexillology? Flags of the World (FOTW) offers 58,000 pages about flags and more than 115,000 images of flags of countries, organizations, states, territories, districts and cities, past and present…
Posted in February 2019 / Chuck Green is the principal of Logic Arts, a design and marketing firm, a contributor to numerous magazines and websites, and the author of books published by Random House, Peachpit Press, and Rockport Publishers. Contact.
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