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One flag to unite them all

Can design save the world?

The folks over at Adbusters are asking just that question, with the One Flag brief, inviting designers to submit designs for a flag to embody the idea of global citizenship - essentially, a flag for planet Earth. The competition deadline is 1 December 2008, so you've got plenty of time to think really, really hard about this one. You can even enter in groups. The judging panel is a pretty top notch bunch: Jonathan Barnbrook, Michael Bierut, Vince Frost, Steven Heller, Kalle Lasn, Rick Poynor and Dmitri Siegel; and the winning entry will actually go into production.

That's a pretty great brief.

via Design Observer

posted: 13 June 2008
categories: Graphics

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