Flags of the world
Flags are compressed history: colours borrowed from allies, symbols kept from empires, and designs constrained by the need to read at a distance. This course covers the grammar of flag design and the patterns that group flags into families.
What you'll learn
10 chapters, then the quiz
- 01The vocabularyNaming the parts.
- 02Design principlesSimple wins.
- 03Colours and their familiesBorrowed on purpose.
- 04SymbolsWhat the charges mean.
- 05Flags of EuropeCrosses and tricolours.
- 06Flags of AsiaSuns, stars and crescents.
- 07Flags of AfricaIndependence in colour.
- 08Flags of the AmericasStars, stripes and suns.
- 09Flags of OceaniaSouthern skies.
- 10Beyond national flagsOther banners.
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