This project started out as an observation on how similar Chile’s flag looked to Texas’ flag. Or the other way around. And it was only going to be a simple chart for Gnate.net. Then I noticed how Liberia and Malaysia’s flag looked like United State’s flag.
Then after I watched the World Cup and saw a bunch of other flags, it snowballed into this non-digital, hand-colored, pop-up book featuring all the flags of the world (excluding the territories that use their mother’s flag like Bouvet Island, which is why there are only 230 featured flags despite there being 248 countries according to the CIA World Factbook).
After I finished the book, I wondered why every country couldn’t have belonged to the United Kingdom at some point in their history. That would’ve made things so much easier.
That, and also why there’s so much animosity between countries in the world. Can’t we see that we all sport the same flag? The flag of Ripping-Off-Some-Other-Country’s flag.
This book is hand-colored because I thought I was cutting corners. I wasn’t. I also had to actually cut corners, too.
It is unpublished and is looking for a publisher. Or a reader. Or someone who’ll just enjoy the video. Or watch the video. I’ll settle on you just clicking play and then stopping after the first couple pages.
Please.
Thoughts About the Flags of the World
Remember how hard it was to color the American flag in school? 50 stars is a lot of stars.
And you sat there in social studies class wishing you went to school in Indonesia instead, because their flag is so easy!
But as you finish coloring the easy portion of the American flag and move on to the blue-square, white-star portion, you have to start thanking your 50, white, lucky stars that you don’t live in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
To our international readers, your flag is perfect the way it is. Especially you, people of Saint Pierre and Miquelon!
Introducing the world’s first non-digital, hand-colored, interactive pop-up book featuring all 230 unique flags of the world.
Please enjoy.
