The AnonC crowd will have seen this, but the rest of you aint.

[frostfox]

National Flags Graded.

This one's for you Seshat!

http://weka.ucdavis.edu/~jp30/flags/index.html

Edited to add, nicked from supergee

Comments

[designgeek.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that immensely! :-D Especially his humorous comments in the "Methodology" section. :-D I can't say that I disagreed with his choices very much, either, although I got the feeling that the symbolism of some of the icons and colors was lost on him. He was grading based only on his own personal aesthetic preferences, which, I suppose, most of us would do. ;-)

So I'll give his rating system a B+. LOL

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw this some years ago. It's not internally consistent. Sweden gets marked down as bad colors/too garish, yet Barbados is praised for good colors, but they're the same colors. Except that Barbados adds black, which makes it a tricolor flag, which they say is bad, except don't always note. By "tricolor" they appear to mean tricolor bars of equal weight. So I'd say the "grading system" is complete bollocks appended after-the-fact to a bunch of gut reactions.

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree with most of his grades. I'd love to see him tackle the flags of the 50 states (and the Canadian provinces, but they'll mostly get panned for colonialism). I fear most of us will get lousy grades, even my beloved Wisconsin, since most U.S. states' flags (including Wisconsin's) consist of a blue field with a state seal or coat-of-arms on it. I have hopes, though, for Tennessee, New Mexico, Maryland and Arizona.

[designgeek.livejournal.com]

By his rating system, our state of Florida flag would certainly FAIL! LOL
(It really IS horrible - and smacks of design by committee - eek!)

"Florida's flag represents the land of sunshine, flowers, palm trees, rivers and lakes. The seal features a brilliant sun, a cabbage palmetto tree, a steamboat sailing and a Native American Seminole woman scattering flowers."