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Before start­ing on this project, Mr. Bryan showed us a few books with flags and explained the ele­ments that make up a good flag design, like not plac­ing design ele­ments on the right side so that fray­ing won’t ruin the mean­ing of the flag.

This is my per­sonal flag cre­ated in Graphic Arts. It took me only about half-​hour to come up with the design.

Extract from explanation:

To begin, the flag’s pro­por­tions are 16:10, which is the stan­dard for com­puter widescreen mon­i­tors, which shows my inter­est in tech­nol­ogy and is also an approx­i­mate to the Golden Rec­tan­gle. The blue rec­tan­gle in the middle is 2.39:1, which is the stan­dard for an anamor­phic pic­ture in cinema. The red stripes, white stars on blue rep­re­sents the flag of the United States and France, two coun­tries that I par­tially asso­ciate with. The stars are in the arrange­ment of the con­stel­la­tion Orion, one of the more rec­og­niz­able con­stel­la­tions in the north­ern night sky, which rep­re­sents my love for ama­teur astron­omy.
The seven-​pointed stars are a symbol of per­fec­tion in Chris­t­ian religions.

4 Comments


  1. 1 Rachel

    Wow Dude. Loving it - very grab­bing. Your expla­na­tion (that isn’t the whole thing?) is pretty unique too. My favorite part is the cinema dimen­sions. They’re very rec­og­niz­able and pleas­ing to the eye. Thanks for the link!!

  2. 2 Dad

    I think you should start your own country.  You have the prin­ci­ple ele­ment and it beats the heck out of a LOT of real flags out there!!!! ;-)   (would like to see the rest of your expla­na­tion if that’s only an extract)

  3. 3 Noah

    I think you should start your own coun­try. You have the prin­ci­ple ele­ment and it beats the heck out of a LOT of real flags out there!!!! ;-) (would like to see the rest of your expla­na­tion if that’s only an extract.)
    Actu­ally, that is the whole thing. Sorry for the con­fus­ing word­ing :)

  4. 4 Mom

    You failed to men­tion the archery con­nec­tion in your choice of con­stel­la­tions!

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