{"id":86593,"date":"2023-12-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86593"},"modified":"2023-12-03T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:22:10","slug":"false-flags-the-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86593","title":{"rendered":"False Flags: The Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Flag experts” – there are people out there who call themselves that – step in to grade the new Minnesota state flag proposals<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So what about the actual experts? In interviews, flag experts and graphic designers generally praised the six choices. Vexillologists \u2014 yes, there’s a word for people who study flags \u2014 said Minnesota’s finalists mostly follow the guidelines of flag design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted Kaye, secretary of the North American Vexillological Association, said he thinks the six finalists are a “good start.” But he also suggested one or more changes to each. A common critique was that the flags are “trying to do too much” and should be simplified in order to be distinguishable from a distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“All of these designs have a great flag in them trying to get out,” Kaye said. “They all need work, but that’s OK.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“They all need work”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give up hope. You have entered the world of the “Graphic Designer”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t get me wrong – I have good friends, colleagues and family who are graphic and visual designers. It’s a talent I do not <\/em>have. I’m in UX, but not one of the visual-design-y UXers (no, they are not the same thing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you turn a group of average graphic designers (not the very good ones <\/em>in my social circle) loose on a project, they can and will spend two years picking out the “right” color palette. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the GOP may get to repeal this nonsense after all (provided they win some House races). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Flag experts” – there are people out there who call themselves that – step in to grade the new Minnesota state flag proposals: So what about the actual experts? In interviews, flag experts and graphic designers generally praised the six choices. Vexillologists \u2014 yes, there’s a word for people who study flags \u2014 said Minnesota’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86594,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86593\/revisions\/86594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}