OK, speaking as a student of political science here... Isn't there the exact same issue with country names? And yet we use those...
Or am I missing something? Fab On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:36, Fabian A. Scherschel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think flags are great, very visual and immediately understandable. As > for > > controversial, you can find dissenting opinions on everything you do if > your > > audience is big enough. We can't cater to *everybody* and the vast > majority > > of flags are actually quite "safe", IMO. > > Fab > > > > It is the not safe ones and the semi-safe ones that seem to cause the > most energy/time lost. China/Taiwain, various Sri Lanka and Cyprus > ones.. I think have all caused issues. I also believe there was a > problem where certain flags may only be presented in some format or > would cause legal issues (or where the display of another flag would > cause issues to people inside of one territory or another). > > So yes flags are nice symbolic things that tell people what they are > getting. They can also be a major problem at times due to that exact > reason. I would say that for 80% of the flags you are going to be > mostly ok. Its that 20% that you will need to either avoid and find > something else. > > > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” > Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. > "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" > — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team >
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