This week features another two simple and achingly elegant flag designs, both thematically connected through the contribution (apparent or hidden) of local schools on their communities.

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It would be a great achievement to get one flag flying, but I’m not entirely satisfied with that. That sounds a little ungrateful but there is a very good reason why flying many flags side by side is the best possibility and as such why I am aiming for that in my campaign.

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I can already hear the cries… “but Quinton ay the Black Country, it’s Brummagem!” Which I concede is true… sort of. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy New Year 2010!

This week we will again look at options for a name for the Black Country Flag, having looked at ideas derived from religion and geography already. In the last article looking at geography we hit upon the idea of ‘The Coal Cross’ and this may give us a clue as to another area for examination. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Christmas!

Although separated between Dudley and Sandwell councils these two towns have a lot of shared history. Whilst Cradley and Cradley Heath do have a fun brotherly rivalry, I felt that the flags to represent them should be very similar – brother flags for brother towns if you will – though still noticeably different. Read the rest of this entry »

This week we feature two flags that have drawn upon quite unique inspirations for their designs. The first is Amblecote, a small town just north of Stourbridge, which many might consider to be a suburb though a civic history of its own belies its nature as distinct town.

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The Rowley Regis is a nice example of a concept in tartan design called under-check and over-check. Which put pretty simply is where it looks like there is a broad ‘base’ check pattern with a smaller ‘foreground’ overlaid on the top. Read the rest of this entry »

My proposal for a Netherton flag has a reasonably long gestation, nearly as long as my Halesowen flag. When I started designing the latter, a good friend of mine, James Tromans, a passionate Netherton native, was keen that I turn my attentions to his home town too! Read the rest of this entry »

Wednesbury was one of the very first town flags that I decided to attempt after the positive reception that my Halesowen and Black Country flags had received. It’s development has been an interesting one, having had such a lengthy gestation. The funny thing it’s not that this flag was difficult to design really, rather it’s been a case of every iteration of the design has left me thinking that it is good but needs a few tweaks and I’d then have to go away and mull things over for a while.

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When I opened up the idea of naming the Black Country flag, one of the types of flag names I mentioned were those named after saints. It’ll be these types of names that I’ll look at in a bit more depth today. Read the rest of this entry »