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1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background

1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background

davidbarker

Comments (106)

  • bloak
  • hotep99
    Will be useful for the inevitable war against the offworld colonies.
  • adzm
    Transparency in a flag is new to me. It's surprisingly effective here. Could this be done with just cloth without synthetics by using thinner threads or thread count?
  • vintagedave
    I appreciate the ethos of unity, but in a sense it scares me were this ever to be political unity -- because I don't trust it would remain (or even ever be) democratic and free.We see so many examples of power hurting citizens in existing nations. The risk if the entire world had one political unity, of losing freedom, is extreme.With multiple nations and blocs, at least some remain showing an example of what can exist in the others.
  • layer8
    The Land of the Rising Sea.
  • et1337
    Can’t wait for CGP Grey’s review of this flag
  • trashb
    I like the idea to have a symbol to unite the world under one flag.The blue dot seems to make sense as it represents the world without focusing on one perspective or projection of the world map. The transparent background also makes sense for the flag, but I think it would be more recognizable if it was just a white background (in my mind the default flag background).Also it seems to me transparent materials are in general more polluting. On the website it mentions a black background was considered (I suppose representing space). It would be nice if there was an alternative version chosen without the transparency for mediums where transparency is not an option either black or white would suffice imho.As others mentioned it does seem very similar (same proportions) as the Japanese flag. I wonder what the opinion of the Japanese is on this concept.
  • karol
    I would live to see the transparency around the funding and goals of this project.
  • spondyl
    I can't help but be distracted by the 26MB flag video that my fibre connection is only able to download at 150 KB/sec here in New Zealand?
  • rrgok
    I don't like the color blue. Can we change it?
  • amai
    Will we put this flag on the moon?
  • hermitcrab
    Someone made a flag to express unity and we've just all come here to argue about it. How very human.
  • mattvr
    Is there information on the license of this flag? Not how/if clear you can reproduce it legally.
  • lanyard-textile
    Love the idea.But the transparency :( It makes the whole flag low contrast, an undesirable quality in flags.
  • rolymath
    Judging by the comments here, the 1worldflag should have been a picture of two people arguing.
  • Leptonmaniac
    So this is effectively the Esperanto of flags?
  • simondotau
    Like all flags, this will come to represent those who choose to fly it, and the causes they fly it for. Which then makes them symbols of the ideas opposed by people who think flag waving is cringe.
  • nickandbro
    This will be needed for the galactic civil wars that will soon take place.
  • pixlmint
    Holy typo… does the one world not have proofreaders?
  • xgkickt
    Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)
  • seirim
    Try to add a favicon for the website if you can guys, a blue dot would work well here.
  • ARandomerDude
    What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?
  • patates
    I like the direction of unity but this will probably be problematic when we eventually start to colonize other planets. I don't want our first settlers to feel discriminated, so please kindly make a new version with more universality - now that I think about it, Universal Pictures also has the world in their logo so maybe this IS universal but we probably we need Jim and Hannah in the loop as well so they can chime in, and last but not least, we need a review from the legal so I CC'd to all, expect some new ideas/requirements.Also, can we please make it "pop"?ps. Attaching a version I made, and this took a lot of back and forth with chatgpt because I care about this a lot, so please have a look, I think we are close to something great here!Looking forward to seeing more from you!ps2. when I was about to send our manufacturing guy entered the room and he said the transparency could be a problem. Some alternatives without compromising the idea would be great! They must be cheap but elegant! Thank you!!
  • s20n
    but that's the wrong shade of blue? It'd have been great if they took the colour from "The blue marble" instead of this Turbo Pascal blue.
  • mock-possum
    Looks too much like japan’s flag.Let’s try an earth and a sunrise behind it - half a circle sitting on the bottom of the rectangle, and a yellow circle making a sunrise on top of that, like a yolk sitting on a blue egg.
  • suddenlybananas
    Looks like something out of 1997.
  • anon
    undefined
  • visha1v
    the most european thing i’ve seen today
  • vhcmlctibbkgx
    [dead]
  • NordStreamYacht
    Esperanto flag.
  • Skidaddle
    Very cool, hard to beat the Earthican flag thoughhttps://theinfosphere.org/images/1/17/Earth_Flag.svg
  • glerk
    I like this. And furthermore, it is my opinion that all current nation states should be dismantled.
  • pixel_popping
    It should be a different color, because this will be attached to either politics (which you don't want) or EU (which you also don't want), some completely independent color could actually trigger curiosity to look it up.