Why Madison’s Flag Gets an A+ Rating
It isn’t every day your city’s flag gets voted one of the best in the country. But that’s what happened when the North American Vexillological Association got together to rate the designs of a whopping 312 flags.
Ted Kaye, the nation’s foremost authority on flag design and author of the NAVA booklet “‘Good’ Flag, ‘Bad’ Flag,” talks with host Bianca Martin about what makes a well-designed flag, why Madison’s flag is so strong (but our state flag … not so much), and how we would go about designing a City Cast Madison flag.
Check out NAVA’s 2022 survey results to see which flags got an A grade, and which ones got an F.
And here’s Roman Mars’ 2015 TED Talk about “why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed.”
Find out more about the Wisconsin Film Festival, including the First Look at the Fest event on March 8, here.
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