That's amazing! Thank you for all your work on the wiki, it's a great reference.Also, everything in our wiki articles has been updated accordingly. And I have a suprise: Say hello to our latest article, the list of all contestants !
That's amazing! Thank you for all your work on the wiki, it's a great reference.Also, everything in our wiki articles has been updated accordingly. And I have a suprise: Say hello to our latest article, the list of all contestants !
That list is brilliant.
Bookmarking for future counting!
So a USA state flag in basically any other form and anything else in the form of a USA state flag, then?So regarding the next challenge i had an idea, basically you should take an irl flag that has a good design and one with a bad design, and redesign each one of them with the styling of the other one. This is just an idea atm.
So something like this?So regarding the next challenge i had an idea, basically you should take an irl flag that has a good design and one with a bad design, and redesign each one of them with the styling of the other one. This is just an idea atm.
I can think of a few examples now.Challenge No.226: The Prince and Pauper
Take a real-life flag that, in your opinion, has a good design, one with a bad design, and redesign each one of the flag with the styling of the other one.
Submissions Open: Now (22nd June)
Submissions Close: about a week later: 1200 GMT 29th June
That sounds like a good idea. Do you want to run it using that?So regarding the next challenge i had an idea, basically you should take an irl flag that has a good design and one with a bad design, and redesign each one of them with the styling of the other one. This is just an idea atm.
Sure thing, I'll organize this week's challenge.That sounds like a good idea. Do you want to run it using that?
WFC #226: The Ol' Switcharoo
Pick two OTL flags, one that is generally considered good and one that is generally considered bad (beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so if you want, you can mention why you think one is a good design and one is a bad one). Then redesign each one with the styling of the other. You should link the originals, please don't include them as images since a post with 2 pics will be pretty big already, so 4 will be cumbersome to read.
Note that some pairs won't work. If you pick for example, Poland and Indonesia, with the argument "Indonesia's is bad because it's nearly undistiguishable" you won't be able to realize a submission. So try to pick flags that are pretty different from eachother.
Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 29th of June, 12:00 GMT
Any limits on the type of flag? National, sub-national, military, political parties, corporate, ...?WFC #226: The Ol' Switcharoo
Pick two OTL flags
not really, go wild.Any limits on the type of flag? National, sub-national, military, political parties, corporate, ...?
You are supposed to redesign Vanuatu’s flag in the format of the current Zambia one as well.I chose to redesign the flag of Zambia:
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From the World Factbook: "Flag Design: green field with a panel of three vertical bands of red (hoist side), black, and orange below a soaring orange eagle, on the outer edge of the flag; green stands for the country's natural resources and vegetation, red symbolizes the struggle for freedom, black the people of Zambia, and orange the country's mineral wealth; the eagle represents the people's ability to rise above the nation's problems."
As I see it, one of those problems is the design of the flag. Flags with no symmetry have to have some other familiar guideposts, something to help the viewer put things into context. While the flag is definitely recognizable, and the eagle is iconic, this flag isn't going to win any beauty contests. In redesigning it, I didn't want to lose any of the components or symbolism. I went with a flag design that would handle 4 colors in a strong way, keeping the red away from both the orange and the green (which to my eyes are problematic pairings).
New template, Vanuatu:
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The New Flag of Zambia:
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One major design choice I made in the new flag of Zambia was to make black the central color. If black represents the people, then I want the people to be central to the flag. I also didn't want to minimize the red (symbolizing the struggle) but in this design, the struggle is a part of the people, and not the largest part. Now, this flag is a beauty.
Ugh, and I didn't read about not including the originals. Well. One ugly flag coming up. I will edit my above post.You are supposed to redesign Vanuatu’s flag in the format of the current Zambia one as well.
Oh I just had a great idea for this contest (I think so anyway) but I lack the skills to make it
A Blue Sheet US State with an SSR/Japanese Prefecture. Maybe even an internal one between a good and a bad US state. Actually might do that last one.
Acknowledged and added to the unused ideas archive I created recently.
I meant as an idea for this weeks contest not as a challenge that could be done later.
Oh I just had a great idea for this contest (I think so anyway) but I lack the skills to make it
A Blue Sheet US State with an SSR/Japanese Prefecture. Maybe even an internal one between a good and a bad US state. Actually might do that last one.
Great minds think alike?So a USA state flag in basically any other form and anything else in the form of a USA state flag, then?