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Vexilloid Tabloid Portland Flag Association 1 ISSN 2474-1787 Portland Flag Association “Free, and Worth Every Penny!” Issue 85 December 2020 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: The Flag IS the Logo The Flag IS the Logo 1 By Ted Kaye But even more important, I assert 2 November 2020 Flutterings Many a corporation will create a that a flag IS a logo. Therefore Slack Flags 6 flag by placing its logo on a solid placing a city logo on a flag reflects A Proposed Flag for Oceania 8 field. That’s OK, as the logo is the a fundamental misunderstanding of “Royal Deux-Ponts” Flag 8 primary graphic symbol of the a flag. (While there may be Snail Congress Flags 9 historical, cultural, or practical 10 entity. Yet we frown when cities, 1949 Royal Tour Handkerchief reasons to put one flag on another, A Non-Flat Flag 10 counties, and provinces place their the concept of a flag image The Flag Quiz 11 logos on their flags (the late Peter centered on a solid field to create Portland Flag Miscellany 12 Orenski called this logorrhea). Why? Next Meeting 12 Beyond the design challenge, I another flag seems ludicrous—yet believe there’s a more fundamental cities and counties will blithely do www.portlandflag.org reason to avoid this practice. so with a logo.) Consider a country. What is its The symbol of a city should be its flag, because THAT serves as its logo? I assert that it’s the flag. As the primary, iconic, graphic logo (it should not be a flag with a symbol of a country, the flag serves logo on it). Please join me in the same purpose as does a logo spreading this message to cities for a corporation. that need to hear it! However, many city governments, with their modern branding efforts, will develop a logo and then slap it on a flag (sometimes replacing a better design). This reflects the confusion over what the flag represents—the city Des Moines, Iowa (2008–2019). government or the entire city (see VT #67 for a fuller explication— I believe that confusion is also To us, the biggest thing is: what leads cities to use another a logo is not a flag. government symbol, the seal, on their flags). — Emily Kessinger, Des Moines, Iowa (1974–2008, 2019– ). co-reviver of the flag of If you wish to compliment the editor, or to contribute in the future, contact Ted Kaye Des Moines, Iowa at 503-223-4660 or [email protected]. If you wish to complain, call your mother. 2 The Vexilloid Tabloid November 2020 Flutterings You Need to Know In our November meeting, held again on Zoom because of the COVID-19 shutdown, 16 PFA members and out-of-town guests enjoyed three hours of flags and video conversation. Jessie Spillers, as the would-be Joyce Gifford discusses the unusual “negative space” host, moderated the meeting. in the flag of Nagorno-Karabakh. During introductions we Joyce Gifford discussed how For example, the modern pink-for- welcomed Brenden Gifford as a customers are seeking the unusual girls/blue-for-boys convention new members as well as distance design of the flag of the ethnic- apparently is a 20th-century guests Phil Allen (Berkeley, Calif.) Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh stereotype that had been Ralph Bartlett (Melbourne, Vic., region (Artsakh). completely reversed in the Australia), and Kyle Smith previous century and before Larry Snyder, pleased to be (Kennewick, Wash.). (perhaps because blue was the rejoining us after several year’s color associated with Mary). Jessie began with a discussion of absence, described his 65 years as a the American Thin Blue Line Flag, heraldist and showed a pennant probing the concept of flags that with his personal arms. are differenced and become new flags, and flags whose meaning (or Brenden Gifford, speaking with an users) change significantly (e.g. the “Erin Go Bragh” harp flag in the Gadsden Flag). background, related how his inherited enthusiasm for flags led him at 17 to “liberate” a Taco Bell flag. Kyle Smith, a GUAVA (Albany) member spurred an interesting extension of the discussion of re-use of flag designs and the shifting meanings of colors Jessie Spillers moderates the Zoom associated with genders over time. Kyle Smith sports a shirt bearing the session, starting with the ATBL flag. flag of GUAVA (Albany). Larry Snyder shows a pennant with Brenden Gifford, with an Irish flag behind him, unfurls the first flag he’d ever his personal arms. collected, “liberated” from a Taco Bell by standing on the roof of a car. December 2020 Portland Flag Association 3 PFA members and guests enjoy the discussion. Phil Allen, joining from Berkeley, California, pulled out small flags he’d collected in Europe, some from the contrade of Siena, Italy. William Gifford answered the question posed by Kate Cushman last meeting about folding the flag Phil Allen pulls out a contrade flag of the Republic of Ireland, then from the Palio in Siena, Italy. explored apparel printed in a way Alden Jencks describes the “Royal to form a complete image (in the expedition corps, the “Royal Deux-Ponts” corps of 1781. same manner as David Koski’s Deux-Ponts”, in the American “slack flags”—see p. 6). Revolutionary War’s 1781 Battle Alden Jencks described his time in of Yorktown, and his viewing of Germany in Zweibrücken (“Two a replica of the corps’ flag at bridges”), whence came troops Yorktown (see p. 8). who formed Rochambeau’s Ralph Bartlett points out the Nagorno-Karabakh flag on his poster Flags of Aspirant Peoples. Ralph Bartlett, joining from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, exhibited a handkerchief honoring the planned (but cancelled) 1949 royal tour of Australia by George VI, framed for him by his father, showing an Australian Red Ensign (see. p. 10). William Gifford shares slack-flag-like apparel (right). Continued on next page 4 The Vexilloid Tabloid Michael Orelove displays the flag of Alaska. Michael Orelove, an Alaska resident 1973–2006, showed three Ted Kaye shows a replica 1732 flag of Spain’s Maritime Departments. flags for Alaska: a 49-star U.S. flag from 1959, an Alaska state flag (with the Big Dipper and the North Star), and his own Alaska variant with a doubled star (representing Mizar and Alcor, the double stars in the Big Dipper’s handle—he is an amateur astronomer). Matt Bray is joined by his son Ted Kaye promoted NAVA’s new Hayden, a budding vexillographer. initiative—Interest Area meetings (asking PFA members and friends David Koski reflects to join in and consider presenting), on verboten flags. lauded the 71% favorable vote for Matt Bray, joined by his son, the new Mississippi flag, and Hayden, described his daughter’s shared replica flags from the era enthusiasm for the 7-stripe of Spanish maritime exploration rainbow flag of Cuzco, Peru, (1492–1785) acquired when he saying she would like to move worked at the Oregon Historical there. Society after a 1990s exhibit closed. Max Liberman reflected on the David Koski ruminated on flags or Max Liberman offers an insight. proposal for a post-war German flag elements whose tainted use flag, with a white diagonal for East has made them “verboten” (e.g., Germany (in response to the the swastika or the Confederate discussion of Nagorno-Karabakh). Battle Flag), wondering if they could ever be reclaimed, then Patrick Genna, whose audio did discussed the design concept of not cooperate, participated in the “tiling” of elements, noting how meeting by writing and holding up they can inform flag designs. signs. Patrick Genna listens in. Continued on next page December 2020 Portland Flag Association 5 Scott Mainwaring contemplates the colors in political flags. Scott Mainwaring discussed the recent display of 228,000+ small white flags in Washington, D.C., memorializing the U.S. deaths to date due to COVID-19, then led a discussion of the unprecedented level of use of flags by a U.S .presidential campaign, that of Donald Trump. The use of color in U.S. politics and flags is While political parties in the United States are generally associated with blue interesting—especially red and (Democrats) and red (Republicans), a large number of flags used by the Trump blue and their surprising reversals. campaign used blue instead of red as the field color. Ted Kaye retained the Portland Flag Association flag, ready for action. With luck, our next meeting will be hosted in person on 14 January. Otherwise, we will meet virtually again! More than 228,000 white flags flutter in memory of the lives lost to COVID-19 in Washington, D.C., artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s installation “In America How Could This Happen…”. Photo by Evy Mages 6 The Vexilloid Tabloid Slack Flags By David Koski Ever since I was young, I’ve loved the way flags look in their many manifestations. While I think their best expression is when flying in a brisk breeze, and their designs are most apparent as flat rectangles, I’ve noticed that we often see them furled around a vertical pole, hanging slack (limp) for lack of a breeze or because they are displayed indoors. Flag schematic with lines of longitude and latitude. I distinctly remember seeing the U.S. flag and the flag of the state of Oregon hanging inert on a vertical latitude on a map (see schematic pole in the school auditorium above). when I was in the seventh grade, the lower fly corner at the bottom. Having decided that this was a and thinking it kind of sad that the The diagonal of the design would good approach for making flag greatest part of each flag was then fall exactly along the line of designs that could be readily obscured by the effects of gravity.
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