This one is still my favorite: http://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a
Seems like using a flag that gives an unknown contact your home address is a bad idea. That information might not be something we want to communicate right off the bat.
The International Flag of Planet Earth
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Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#22This one is still my favorite: http://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a
Seems like using a flag that gives an unknown contact your home address is a bad idea. That information might not be something we want to communicate right off the bat.
Completely agree. Reminds me of Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem novels :)
Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#23For the purpose of human unity, this is a great idea. As globalization progresses, rallying behind divisive banners may become less and less relevant (or they may shift to non territorial notions, but that's a whole different story).
But why overthink the symbolism? We already have the globe outline [1] as a relatively well understood symbol.
[1] Unicode U+1F310
Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#24Couldn't we just use the flag Daffy Duck used!?! http://www.gargaro.com/webpages/general/marvin17.jpg
Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#25Two things: 1) Blue and white aren't exactly politically neutral. They tried to give Iraq a blue and white flag, with blue stripes representing the rivers. It did not go well. 2) A flag should not be so complex that children cannot draw it with crayons. The interlocking rings are nice, but the specificity of which goes under which makes things too difficult. The union jack is perfect example of this complexity but at…
I completely agree with your second point. Being able to easily draw a flag is a really nice indicator of how nice your flag is (eg. is it too complex? Does it scale well?).
Look at the image posted by dakridge: https://imgur.com/gallery/7ze3a Anyone could easily draw that, and that makes it much better than OP's flag.
Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#26Yeah, I'd say acceptable, and I could get used to it with time. But honestly, it seems to me that every time someone makes a flag for a real-world thing, it almost always suck. Why can't they just hire Michael Okuda, whose work in Star Trek (and NASA) produced really pretty logos and flags?
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/06/image-9a...
https://startreklives.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/emblem.gif
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Still, I'm willing to wield current design because solidarity as a species means more to me than petty design issues :).
Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#27It looks like a logo of some bank.
Re: The International Flag of Planet Earth
#28I prefer this one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terra_flag.gif
Aqua, terra, aer et somniorum.