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MineralMan

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4. Hmm...graphic artists think about stuff like that.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 11, 2019, 11:59 AM

Mar 2019

On the US flag, the stars are oriented with the single point at the top. Some early flags, however, where the stars form a circle, show the stars oriented in all positions.

Here's my guess: someone decided to orient the stars on that logo with the single point down to make it different from the flag. That would have avoided criticism of using flag imagery for political purposes. Since there are examples all the way back to Nixon, I'd guess that was the reason. "See, the stars are upside down, so we're not using flag imagery."

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Ever notice the upside down stars on the GOP logo? [View all] liberalnarb Mar 2019 OP

Hail Satan! underpants Mar 2019 #1

Really? PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #2

The op was really meant to be tongue in cheek, but it is kinda odd isn't it? liberalnarb Mar 2019 #3

Don't expect a reply Cirque du So-What Mar 2019 #5

Tee hee! lunatica Mar 2019 #18

Hmm...graphic artists think about stuff like that. MineralMan Mar 2019 #4

See, that's funny, I see the stars as being on the slant (I'm a graphic designer) Demit Mar 2019 #7

I get that - they're also in a state of unstability. MineralMan Mar 2019 #11

? Sorry, don't see the connection of the racist Dove ad to the stars in the GOP logo. Demit Mar 2019 #12

Both things involve design decisions. MineralMan Mar 2019 #13

In an ad agency, it is a writer and an art director who work in a team. Together they concept. Demit Mar 2019 #14

I don't work in an ad agency. Do they even still exist? MineralMan Mar 2019 #15

Your field has nothing to do with ads produced by Dove & its agency (Ogilvy & Mather). Demit Mar 2019 #17

I find it stupidly racist and I'm white lunatica Mar 2019 #19

I believe the Flag Code says it's OK to use the patterns in the flag, just not an actual flag. Girard442 Mar 2019 #8

They look a bit like little klansmen marching in lockstep Orangepeel Mar 2019 #6

Subliminal truth telling. Power 2 the People Mar 2019 #9

I doubt most have noticed. LunaSea Mar 2019 #10

I'm not a graphic artist, by any means customerserviceguy Mar 2019 #16