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Which national banners are aesthetically pleasing?

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cyprus, cos it's got the outline of the island on it. The UK flag is far too complicated and far too easy to inadvetantly fly upside down!

― MarkH, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I quite like the british flag, it looks nice on tea towels etc. Is there a flag that is pink out there? or is that in inappropriate colour for a nation that wants to be taken seriously?

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can one seperate the aesthetics of a flag from what it stands for?

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

whose flag is it that is not oblongular but rather two triangles one above the other?

Muanmhar (sp) has a cool lion dog with a sword

All picture flags are ace

― mark s, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Triangles is one of Bhutan/Nepal/Tibet/Sikkim. I shall google and return.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is Nepal. I have no idea why I didn't just google before posting that last message. I am a fool.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

libya - plain green rectangle = minimalistly nice

mexico - eagle and snake = nicely overblown

― chris, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, I think it should be possible to seperate the aesthetics from what it sttands for. What is the relevance of the boring NZ flag to national issues other than what with have imbued it with through constant conjunction? Maybe if China had a pink flag it would come to stand for communism?

more to the point I think pink has a bad reputation for being frivilous. Its time to reclaim pink for national pride or something. Carefree national debts and fun tourist activities

Or what about purple? thats a little more staid than pink, if one chooses a dark enough shade. Maybe Denmark should have a purple flag since same sex marriages are permitted?

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

S: I like the Union Jack, especially when it's made into a 3-button blazer. The Stars & Bars are good too - it even looks good in flames. I like both the rising sun and the lonely red dot versions of the Japanese flag - and a poignant comment on the death of their empire too. And of course, the Pirate Nation's skull & x-bones can't be beat.

D: The Canadian flag is too new looking, like a focus-group-approved corporate logo. It is bland and reeks of consensus which, while surprisingly good qualities in a nation, make for a dull flag.

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What does Greenland's flag look like?

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

only flag i like is Black Flag - oy!

― Geoff, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

greenland's flag is actually super-cool:

http://www.flags.net/GRLD.htm

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, and Mark s are you thinking of Myanmar (formerly Burma)?

― chris, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

skull and crossbones, arRRR

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are loads of aesthetically pleasing banners. The ones I really hate are Italy and Ireland though, because they are basically the same fucking flag, did they just copy each other? It's like a high school exam and one of them is the smart kid and the other is the bully forcing the smart kid to share answers, but a dyslexic bully who writes it a bit wrong. Plus I am part Irish and part Italian with no geneological pride.

I like the German city flags.

― Ally, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no i am thinking of muuminmaah formerly finland

― mark s, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally, they're not that similar - green/white/gold v. green/white/red. Antarctica is my favourite. Big white splodge... what can it mean?

― Madchen, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmm, lovely Marshall islands:

http://www.flags.net/MAIS.htm

― chris, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Arizona state flag is very nice:

http://www.50states.com/flag/azflag.htm

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow! Greenland has got the COOLEST flag in the world.

That site's pretty cool actually because it's useful for questions like this.

Search: GREENLAND, Bahrain, Botswana, Canada, China, Georgia, East Timor, Latvia, Macedonia, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Somalia, St Lucia, Vietnam, Wales

Destroy: Bulgaria, Central African Republic, Comoros, Dominican Republic, Isle Of Man, Kiribati, Libya, Macao, Palau

― jamesmichaelward, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Australian Aboriginal flag rocks my world.

At school, pre-1995, we were taught that the yellow was for the sun, the red for the land and the black for the dreamtime.

I hate the new interpretation that the black is for the aboriginal people. They are brown or white or somewhere in-between, not black. Crikey!

― toraneko, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am very ambivalent about the Zimbabwean flag because I love the soapstone bird (they are gorgeous in real life) but I don't like the colours.

― Sam, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Australian Aboriginal flag is great. Whatever it represents, it's cool to see that much black in a flag. Why not more black-based flags?

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Italys is red and Irelands has orange.

The principle in Irelands being Green for Ireland, Orange for Northern Ireland and White for peace between the two.

Yeah ok so its a shit flag, but come on we're hardly setting the world on fire anyway.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Canadas flag was focus grouped but at least we got the fucking colonial jack off it .
Brazil is perhaps my favorite

― anthony, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weren't the red squares on either side of the maple leaf originally to be blue, to represent the oceans? That would've been really ugly.

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks Fritz. I like Greenland's flag a lot.Chequered flags are great too but only because they remind me of The Specials.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mauritania's flag looks like an emoticon when seen from afar. It must have confused pirates to see a Mauritanian boat with that flag.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, if you snap Palmer Land (the peninsula bit) off Antarctica it looks like Fozzie Bear, side-on, without his hat. A bit.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It looks like that thing from NeverEnding Story.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it looks a bit like a Sneetch

― Madchen, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All plain tri-colors in the French, Italian or Irish style are automatic duds.

When in doubt, just use a big old star - worked like a charm for Viet Nam, Somalia or the Congo.

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dark orange and regular red are practically the same color!

― Ally, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PRACTICALLY.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Flaggots, the lot of you!

― Trevor, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not even patriotic at all, but they're fucking flags, I don't care about it for either patriotic or aesthetic reasons. But having said that I don't think its much better or worse than all the other bloody flags in the world.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You should have seen what Pearson wanted for our flag, blue instead of red borders and three maple leafs instead of two, it was ugly. I like New Brunswick's with the crazy boat.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Notice we've avoided any discussion of flags with loaded connotations (except Old Glory) - nobody has mentioned the Swastika, Confederate flag or even the Israeli flag... are some symbols too potent to be discussed aesthetically?

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the one Bono was waving in that rebel song...what was it called? Oh, yes: "Sunday, Bloody Sunday."

My real fave is the Japanese flag (just white with red circle). Very elegant.

― Mark, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i saw an old black guy wearing a confederate flag shirt yesterday. i think the red nazi flag with black-and-white swastika circle in the middle is gorgeous.

― ethan, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just flicking through my atlas...

Bhutan...has a cool looking dragon on it, orange and yellow triangles in the background
Grenada...intracate design, stars, some sort of plant, red, yellow and green
Kiribati...has a sea motif (blue and white squigly lines), a rising sun and a bird flying (both yellow) on a red background. Lovely.
Sri Lanka...lion with sword...maroon, yellow, green and orange.
Uruguay...smiley sun (yellow), blue and white lines.

― james, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Nazi flag is great, as was all their style achievements, I mean they had style consultants for fuck's sake. But if you say something like that people look at you weird. I don't know what the Israeli flag looks like.

― Ally, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.flags.net/elements/gif_flags/UNST085.GIF

If the image works, that's Washington D.C! Pretty wild.

THe Tennessee sate flag has three stars, one for each of the "Grand Divisions" (east, west, central). Tennessee used to be thort of almost as three different states: Memphis was capital of the West, Nashville the central, and Knoxville (vying with Chattanooga) the east. Of course whatever distinctions were once felt have been erased by franchising and the highway system.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

click on my name directly above for the israeli flag (not quite sure how I managed that)

― fritz, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, wait then I did know what an Israeli flag looked like. What am I today, an idiot? I like that flag.

― Ally, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nepal
http://www.flags.net/elements/gif_flags/NEPA001.GIF
Tibet
http://www.flags.net/elements/gif_flags/TIBE001.GIF

― Ed, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tibet wins.

― Maria, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Israeli flag and the six points of the Star of David represent the fact that Israel risks being attacked from there, there, there, there, there and there

― shinysteve, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

part of me feels uncomortable about the rainbow flag but it makes me feel at home when i am in strange city

― anthony, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Prom Night just got uglier.

― Pleasant-Plains, Thursday, 23 December 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

D: The Canadian flag is too new looking, like a focus-group-approved corporate logo. It is bland and reeks of consensus which, while surprisingly good qualities in a nation, make for a dull flag.

This makes me really happy, because it's so true! I like how '60s it looks, though, esp. the legacy it's left on our gov't depts.

http://www.sdc.gc.ca/images/signature.gif

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/miningtax/img/rncanlogo.gif

http://icnet.ic.gc.ca/publication/tb_images/ic_signatures.gif

Oh, and BC's flag is HORRID. It's as if Britain had invaded Argentina or something. ick.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Bcflag.jpg

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 24 December 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Cyprus, cos it's got the outline of the island on it. The UK flag is far too complicated

!!! surely an outline of an island is more complicated than colouring in a few lines

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 December 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

search: Togo, Djibouti

destroy: Bosnia & Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mogenweb/stlouisflag-4.gif

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

search: estonia, brazil, marshall islands, libya, zambia
destroy: saint vincent and the grenadines, ukraine, bosnia-herzegovina, mongolia

― inert false cat (sleep), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Saskatewan's is lovely:
ihttp://www.k12.nf.ca/acreman/Flags/flag.gif

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

"Saskatchewan"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Bosnia & Herzogovina is all over the place! Looks like the trim from some hotel pamphlet.

Nunavut!
http://www.theodora.com/flags/new/nunavut_s.gif

― Mestema (davidcorp), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Very strange to have a website on a flag like that.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/city_survey.htm

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/Staff/JoshParsons/flags/intro.html

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, Long Beach's flag is so lame.

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Bosnia & Herzogovina is all over the place! Looks like the trim from some hotel pamphlet.

I believe it was more or less foisted upon the ex-warring factions of Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats by the UN High Representative or something, as a compromise (ie a design no-one could possibly like or feel represented them?).

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 8 July 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I love the Albanian flag!

http://www.33ff.com/flags/XL_flags/Albania_flag.gif

Canada's is super classic, too. There was a confusing joke about it in "Working," that short-lived sitcom starring an adult Fred Savage. Fred's boss says he wants to move to Canada because of their flag. Fred replies, "That's a maple leaf, sir." The boss was dismayed. What did he think it was supposed to be? It's obv. not a pot leaf.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 8 July 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

New Mexico has a nice flag. It's vertically and horizontally symmetrical:

http://www.flags2000.com.au/images/us32_large.gif

Idaho's flag is the only flag out of 50 designed by a woman. You bet they try to paint Idaho as some feminist paradise because of it. (It actually isn't, don't tell anyone!) Also, it is one fugly flag.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 8 July 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

You should have seen what Pearson wanted for our flag, blue instead of red borders and three maple leafs instead of two, it was ugly. I like New Brunswick's with the crazy boat.
-- Mr Noodles October 16th, 2001 8:00 PM.

haha, two leaves? (and yes it is "leaves" despite how the NHL has conditioned you to spell it) seeing double back in 2001.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 9 July 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

chicago's flag is dope

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Not a flag, but Lincoln County's seal is killer in its simplicity:

http://www.idahopassport.org/assets/img/seals/s_lincoln.gif

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

haha I was all like wtf is that, a stovepipe hat on a tractor? and then I realized IT WAS.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's probably my favorite piece of design.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

cornwalls is beautiful

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

LIBYA (all green... very easy to make.....)

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 9 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.fahnenversand.de/fotw/images/t/tr!goktk.gif

― gabbneb, Friday, 11 January 2008 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

Fred replies, "That's a maple leaf, sir." The boss was dismayed. What did he think it was supposed to be? It's obv. not a pot leaf.

won't even bother to look, but there must be a bezillion images of canada's flag with pot leaf instead, right? maybe that shd be bc's.

― Hunt3r, Friday, 11 January 2008 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/4049/imageuploadimageuq8.jpg

― libcrypt, Friday, 11 January 2008 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

St. Petersburg (Florida)'s flag looks like a rejected tank top design:

http://www.floridaholidayreview.com/i/StPeteFlag.gif

― Ol Bertie Dastard, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

Denver's would make a lovely wallpaper border:

http://www.largescaleworkshop.com/hoa/assn13247/images/denver%20flag.png?rand=0.8345841064872645

― Ol Bertie Dastard, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/City%20Survey%202004/city_flag_photos/Provo.jpg

http://www.smartdeal.co.nz/images/centrum.jpg

― Ol Bertie Dastard, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/city_survey.htm

http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/State&Provincial%20Survey%202001/surveyresults.htm

― Ol Bertie Dastard, Friday, 11 January 2008 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Flags! In that a friend of mine has started up a new project, The Flag Blog:

http://flagblog.tumblr.com/

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 November 2010 17:30 (fifteen years ago)

"Flog" and "Blag" were already taken?

― Canadian Club & Dr. Pepper (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 1 November 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

You never know.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 November 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)

eight years pass...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.svg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Flag_of_Tokelau.svg/1600px-Flag_of_Tokelau.svg.png

Bosnia and Tokelau got a shared vibe going on

― cherry blossom, Sunday, 7 July 2019 06:51 (six years ago)

its pronounced fleg fyi

― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 July 2019 09:10 (six years ago)

Weird and magnificent regional Russian flags featuring animals: a thread
— Fabrice Deprez (@fabrice_deprez) July 9, 2019

A good thread.

― ShariVari, Thursday, 11 July 2019 09:29 (six years ago)

it's an excellent thread and I've been subsequently spooked by being sent a pic of someone I know this morning wearing a tshirt based on the Zheleznogorsk flag

― ogmor, Friday, 12 July 2019 09:09 (six years ago)

two years pass...

Wow, the Sámi flag is pretty darn cool:

https://static.thereisadayforthat.com/images/935x475c/sami-flag-01.jpg

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 October 2021 00:31 (four years ago)

two years pass...

Japan

― koogs, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 11:22 (one year ago)

pretty good, but it's no Halifax

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/halifax-nova-scotia-canada-flag-textile-cloth-fabric-waving-top-sunrise-mist-fog-halifax-nova-scotia-canada-177598644.jpg

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 13:58 (one year ago)

eleven months pass...

Flags were ordered to be lowered by the President of the United States. Lower. Your. Flags.
— US Attorney Habba (@USAttyHabba) September 14, 2025

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 September 2025 21:02 (six months ago)

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