Maybe you were wondering? Flag drop.

Have you had the experience of owning a flag that you needed to get rid of? Burning it is ill-advised...should you just throw it out into the trash?

Apparently not. And please kids, no mail.

At Attention

Getting attention like those furniture ads, but signalling another sort ending, this hand-made heartfelt notice at a ferry on Long Island refers to yet another well-known symbol: the flag at half mast. Flags at half mast everywhere on Shelter Island were a show of a community island banding together during a sad, sober time.

Tail Tales

One of the main thrusts of the Visual Process class I taught at FIT this past semester was to discuss the importance of communicating without words. We concentrated on universal symbols, but covered other images that transmit info pronto. While sitting aboard our plane awaiting takeoff (not so pronto), I noticed that plane tails are darned good real estate for the airlines' logos (in addition, of course, to acting as crucial airplane parts). Although these tails hew more to brands than to symbols, here are a few tail/tales shot through a window murkily (a good test of how the shapes hold up). Do you think Delta and Alitalia are commercial partners because each airline uses the triangle?



NASA's info is about airplane parts is soooooo interesting, but they could use some cooler graphics.