Gather round, Earthlings! Time to judge our new flag.
You’re
looking at the proposed design for the flag that our intrepid Earthling
explorers will plant on the surface of Mars when they hopefully make it
there by mid-2030.
The
brains behind the design is graphic designer, Oskar Pernefeldt, from
Beckmans College of Design in Sweden, who came up with it as part of his
graduation project called 'The International Flag of Planet Earth.' According to Michael Rundle at Wired, companies such as LG and BSmart helped him formalise his design, and NASA appears to be involved, but it’s not clear exactly how.
While
we’re a long way off actually having a discussion, as a global
population, about what flag to plant on Mars, and whether there’s
actually any point, considering how unlikely it is that anyone else will
actually see it, it’s still a pretty fun exercise. It’s a chance for us
to consider what things planet Earth would project to someone looking
at it from the outside in.
"Centred
in the flag, seven rings form a flower - a symbol of the life on Earth.
The rings are linked to each other, which represents how everything on
our planet, directly or indirectly, [is] linked.
The blue
field represents water which is essential for life - also as the oceans
cover most of our planet's surface. The flower's outer rings form a
circle which could be seen as a symbol of Earth as a planet and the blue
surface could represent the Universe."
Watch the video below
to hear Pernefeldt talk about how he came up with the design, and check
out the images he’s put together of the flag in a whole bunch of
different scenarios. I can’t help but feel a little patriotic about our
little blue dot of a planet.
Beckmans College of Design
Beckmans College of Design
Beckmans College of Design
Beckmans College of Design
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