flag designs

MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2009

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009

Some Material Flags was exhibited at MOT (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Tokyo in 2008 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2009.

Each of the twenty-five flags is designed to represent commonplace information about the citizens of the country it represents. Stars, circles, stripes, crescents, diamonds and other shapes each illustrate – in proportion to the entire population as to the entire flag – such ordinary information as coffee consumption, cell phone usage, alcohol consumption, sugar consumption, literacy levels, and so on. The flags are made of cotton seersucker fabric – a fabric whose texture is striped with puckers and designed for the practical effect of wicking sweat off a person's body with much greater ease than a typical flat fabric and whose pattern is generally striped or checked.

shapes key