CHICAGO FLAG

You should watch this ted talk by Roman Mars because the topic of flags is something we don’t normally think about. What makes a good flag and what makes a bad flag. Most of us are unsure of this answer. There is a lot of thought that needs to go in to the making of a flag. We learn through this talk that there are complicated flags and simple flags. It truly needs to represent the city with back up information of why it looks a certain way. He also gives good support to why he thinks certain flags are good or bad. He really does make me realize that the flag represents the city.

I know im a great artist. ps: my blue looks purple on camera.

My flag follows the five steps that he talks about in this speech. A child should be able to draw it (simple). Use meaningful symbolism. Ironically enough the flag they disuses in this presentation in the Chicago flag where I am from. So I decided to keep the blue lines there because it is a good representation of the river and the lake. I decided to make the blue lines more zig zag to represent the wind because it is after all the windy city. He discusses how the four red stars each symbolize significant events in Chicago. Although these events are significant, my flag has a lot of smaller stars all around the flag along with the pain four stars. I did this because Chicago is broken up into smaller section as well. In these smaller sections significant things happen there too, within the neighborhood. I kept the same colors because in the presentation he talks about how using two to three basic colors is important. The Chicago flag has three basic colors already, red, blue and white. My new version of the Chicago flag is still simple just adds a bit more meaning to it.