1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background

I recently was listening to a 99 Percent Invisible podcast: Citizen of the World https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/665-citizen-of-the-wo...

It's about a guy who has been fighting for ~50 years to be able to be a citizen of no country. I left that episode thinking "This is the hero we need right now."

He has set up the World Citizen Government https://worldcitizengov.org/

There are lots of world flags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Earth https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Flag_Simple.sv...

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?

It should be a white flag. All the colors, and the fact we embraced it as a flag of unity over a flag of surrender should say all there is to say about us getting over our differences.

Edit: From Wikipedia: (A white flag) serves as an internationally recognized sign of truce and negotiation, meaning "we want to talk". It emerged as an ideal symbol for peace because it is highly visible on the battlefield, is easy to make, and doesn't belong to any specific nation.

Will be useful for the inevitable war against the offworld colonies.

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.

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.

That’s really interesting.

Currently, Japan’s ruling party, the LDP, is considering legislation to criminalize the desecration of the Japan flag. If that law is passed, carrying that flag would constitute a crime of desecrating the Japan flag. Even without such a law, simply carrying that flag would likely prompt the far right to view it as an alteration of the Japan flag and attack you for it.

- LDP pushes flag desecration law; expert questions its necessity | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16506155

I would live to see the transparency around the funding and goals of this project.

The Land of the Rising Sea.

Can’t wait for CGP Grey’s review of this flag

I don't like the color blue. Can we change it?

Someone made a flag to express unity and we've just all come here to argue about it. How very human.

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?

I don't like it and I wasn't consulted about it. Given it is supposed to be representative of a united humanity or something like that, I'd be interested to know what proportion of the 8 billion people were consulted in its creation.

Love the idea.

But the transparency :( It makes the whole flag low contrast, an undesirable quality in flags.

Judging by the comments here, the 1worldflag should have been a picture of two people arguing.

Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)

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.

How about a pale blue dot on a black background

So this is effectively the Esperanto of flags?

The apotheosis of Reddit vexillology where all flag symbolism maps to geographical features.

I love the initiative, I understand the transparency, although it doesn't really look that great imo.

Try to add a favicon for the website if you can guys, a blue dot would work well here.

Very cool, hard to beat the Earthican flag though

https://theinfosphere.org/images/1/17/Earth_Flag.svg

How would we represent this as a sticker on a vehicle?

White outline around the clear field w blue dot?

This will be needed for the galactic civil wars that will soon take place.

Holy typo… does the one world not have proofreaders?

Global government sounds terrible. Most people don’t live in western liberal democracies, so I assume a world government would be something other than that. I have no interest in living under a government that promises the average political, religious, personal and economic environment of the world.

Is there information on the license of this flag? Not how/if clear you can reproduce it legally.

Will we put this flag on the moon?

Modern invented flag peddlers only seek to have us fly flags of the division they seek to generate. I only fly the flag of the country I live in and give side eye to anyone that does otherwise.

What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?

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.

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!!

"govvie bad so we make giga govment, then no bad"

Instead of cool cool water make it an income distribution chart. More realistic.

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.

The Empire of the Rising Blue Ink Dot (of the unelected EU bureaucracy).

If you're going to change my mouse pointer into a circle can you at least make the activation point the centre of the circle?

Nothing says "I care about the earth" like a giant sheet of plastic.

I like this. And furthermore, it is my opinion that all current nation states should be dismantled.

That grade of blue is more like Neptune than earth, or blue giant.

Looks like something out of 1997.

As someone living in Omaha, this has just a little bit of a conflict lmao.....

the most european thing i’ve seen today

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.

ALL flags(standards/banners) are war symbols, declarations of intent to attack and of terrtory held by conquest, tribes,nations, and franchises alike. Any attemp to float the idea of a world flag is a (hidden attempt) of a declaration of total war on all countrys simultaneously, which unfortunatly is too ridiculous to even get points on style. Fashists always have some sort of fashion kink branding thing plus a cult of personality to get things going, but this one needs WAY too much explaining.

Esperanto flag.