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I like the Milwaukee flag too; it grows on you after a while. It's like the kid wearing stripes and plaids and polka dots and mismatched socks and light-up shoe

I like the Milwaukee flag too; it grows on you after a while. It's like the kid wearing stripes and plaids and polka dots and mismatched socks and light-up shoes of city flags - it's not going to win any design awards, but you've still got to respect it for rocking its own style. I tried to buy one at one point, but discovered that nobody is producing them commercially - the ones owned by the city look like they are all sewn by hand. Cutting down on the number of elements to make a less cluttered wouldn't be terrible, though. One thing the author didn't mention that makes the Chicago flag so great is that it's easy for citizens and citizen groups to riff on; between that star and the line of four graphic elements between the blue stripes, the entire city's got a common graphic identity that everyone can share.

bitsweet 11y ago
You must not have watched the Ted talk which makes a very compelling case to why its a bad flag. The video talks about how great flags, like chicago's, are flown everywhere and bad flags are not. I grew up about an hour north of Chicago and an hour south of Milwaukee; I visited and worked in both cities. I've never seen the Milwaukee flag but I always saw the Chicago flag around.
- bunderbunder 11y ago
  Oh, well if a Ted speaker disagrees with my personal tastes, then clearly they must be objectively wrong. I will adjust them immediately.
- peeters 11y ago
  I think you're the one missing something; namely that while the TED talk cites Milwaukee as a bad flag, the author (Whet Moser) of the linked article (which embeds the video) describes his disagreement. Hence the "too" in "I like the Milwaukee flag too" means "as Moser does", not "in addition to (other flag)".
  - tptacek 11y ago
    Whet doesn't hate the Milwaukee flag as much as Roman Mars, but he agrees with that the Chicago flag is superior. (The TED talk doesn't cover this, but Whet's actual article does.)
icebraining 11y ago
One thing the author didn't mention that makes the Chicago flag so great is that it's easy for citizens and citizen groups to riff on He did, though. "It's adaptable and remixable; the six-pointed stars in particular show up in all kinds of spaces - (guest) the coffee I bought the other day had a Chicago star on it".

bitsweet 11y ago

You must not have watched the Ted talk which makes a very compelling case to why its a bad flag. The video talks about how great flags, like chicago's, are flown everywhere and bad flags are not. I grew up about an hour north of Chicago and an hour south of Milwaukee; I visited and worked in both cities. I've never seen the Milwaukee flag but I always saw the Chicago flag around.

bunderbunder 11y ago
Oh, well if a Ted speaker disagrees with my personal tastes, then clearly they must be objectively wrong. I will adjust them immediately.
peeters 11y ago
I think you're the one missing something; namely that while the TED talk cites Milwaukee as a bad flag, the author (Whet Moser) of the linked article (which embeds the video) describes his disagreement. Hence the "too" in "I like the Milwaukee flag too" means "as Moser does", not "in addition to (other flag)".
- tptacek 11y ago
  Whet doesn't hate the Milwaukee flag as much as Roman Mars, but he agrees with that the Chicago flag is superior. (The TED talk doesn't cover this, but Whet's actual article does.)

icebraining 11y ago

One thing the author didn't mention that makes the Chicago flag so great is that it's easy for citizens and citizen groups to riff on He did, though. "It's adaptable and remixable; the six-pointed stars in particular show up in all kinds of spaces - (guest) the coffee I bought the other day had a Chicago star on it".