Check this out - a graphic designer redid the flags of the world and put it in a slideshow, complete with techno music, comments and all white background. I feel like I am in a chic gallery party at the MoMA. However, some of the comments are a bit too snarky and "smart" for my taste; it was funny in the pretentious sort of way. The flags, if they were actually in hard print or actually made is something that people would scratch their heads at in an art gallery a la MoMA but cost thousands of dollars and people will pay for, that sort of ludicrous thing.
Personally, Britain, Somalia, France and Brazil were the best. The rest were a little under-redesigned or the comments were too snarky. Although the Japan one, with it's comment "Red is too agressive!" (it's the red sun disc) has SO many meanings that someone with a bit of Japanese history under their belt can read into - that or I am over-analyzing. Didn't get the last part though...
(Props to Daily Frappe, one of my daily reads for all things in Greece and the Greek diaspora.)
L'Blog, C'est Moi
- M.
- Kyoto, Japan
- In Kyoto, Japan till March 2008 as the vague "grad/research student" in the department, trying to keep my J.Crew/Kate Spade whims at bay, clacking away on my new knitting needles, applying to grad school and planning a wedding 6000 miles away back in NYC. Or at least trying to.
