Artists can choose a meaningful phrase to feature on their flag design. Short, impactful quotes work best visually. The words can be incorporated into the stripes or placed over the flag’s main ...

Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

she offered a $25 prize to the Illinois DAR chapter for submitting the best design for the flag. This was a considerable sum for 1911, equivalent to approximately $600 today. The winner ...

The current state flag design received 43% of the votes, making it the decisive winner in the flag redesign contest.

They warn in “Good” Flag, “Bad” Flag that most of the good flag designs are taken, so the best any flag designer can hope to accomplish is to design a banner that resembles other countries ...

The people of Illinois have spoken, and they overwhelmingly favor retaining the current state flag. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced the results of the state flag ...

It also reportedly fails to adhere to best practices in flag design by using too many colors and depicting a fairly complex rendering of George Washington himself. Lawmakers called it an "outdated ...

TEMPLE TERRACE — Even in a city that likes to pride itself on its artistic flavor, coming up with a first-ever city flag is turning into quite the task for Temple Terrace. So much so that Mayor ...

The public had a chance to vote for a new flag from one of 12 designs or keep the current one. And after five weeks of voting, the current flag won — and by a lot. Of the nearly 385,000 votes ...