"Good" Flag, "Bad" Flag, compiled by Ted Kaye from the expert wisdom of over 20 vexillologists/vexillographers, has become a classic resource for those wishing to design or re-design a flag. The booklet lays out five basic principles for good flag design, and then shows examples of flags that follow them and flags that disregard them, all ...

flag in them—simplify them by focusing on a single symbol, a few colors, large shapes, and no lettering. Avoid the temptation to include a symbol for everybody.

NAVA’s publication Good Flag, Bad Flag provides five principles of flag design: Keep It Simple. The flag should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory...Use Meaningful Symbolism. The flag's images, colors, or patterns should relate to what it …

Good Flag, Bad Flag – This 16-page booklet, compiled from the expert input of over 20 different vexillologists world-wide, has become a classic resource for flag design. What Makes A Good Flag Design?

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NAVA's classic guide, "Good" Flag, "Bad" Flag (GFBF) was updated and expanded in 2020. This simple, straight-forward guide was first introduced in 2001, published in hard-copy in 2006, and is now available in multiple languages.

Use five basic principles to create an outstanding flag for your organization, city, tribe, company, family, neighborhood, or even country. This 16-page full-color booklet, 5.5 in. x 8.5 in., distills the concepts of flag design into five basic principles and shows examples of flags that follow them and flags that disregard them.

The organization created five basic principles that, if followed, should lead to a successfully designed flag. To illustrate these basic design principles. For each one I have included a good flag that follows it and a bad flag that violates it. The Flag Should be Simple Enough that a Child could draw it from memory

Good Flag, Bad Flag, which com-bined the work of 20 writers on vexillography and have been vali-dated by NAVA’s massive surveys of state/provincial and city flags, Parson’s criteria are unilaterally defined. Among them: no writ-ing, no maps, no realistic images, and no tricolors—except in Europe. He also dislikes