Scaling API-first – The story of a global engineering organization
Web Flags - Digital Methods Summer 12
1. Web Flags
Creating flags of the EuroWebs
Federica Bardelli, Nadia Dresscher, Sabine
Niederer, Tommaso Renzini, Charlotte Webb
DIGITAL METHODS SUMMER SCHOOL 2012
Barcode of Europe, OMA, Rem Koolhaas
8. “Blue is still the most
predictable color on the web”
Folksonomy, 2011
9. the webbier, the bluer?
The Colours of the World Wide Social Web, colourlovers.com
10. Can we find culturally specific palettes,
by looking at the top websites per
country? Is every country’s top web
11. Step 1: Fetch a list
of European
ccTLDs (country
code Top Level
Domains).
Step 2: Compare to
the list of local
Google versions.
Result: list of 27
12. (use your
Step 3: For each research
country of the browser!)
list, query the
e.g. for Italy, go to:
local google for www.google.it
the top 20 and query:
websites. site:.it
for France, go to
13. Colour Picking Rules
Install Colourzilla for Firefox or Google
Chrome.
Choose 2 colors for each homepage:
1. if there's website header: color of header
2. if there's no header: color of the logo/
brand inside the page
3. if there's no logo: color of background
and color of the font color
17. P O R T U G A L
S P A I N
A N D O R R A
I C E L A N D
R E P U B L I C O F I R E L A N
F R A N C E
U N I T E D K I N G D O M
B E L G I O
S W I T Z E R L A N D
I T A L Y
N E T H E R L A N D S
G E R M A N Y
N O R W A Y
D E N M A R K
A U S T R I A
S W E D E N
C R O A T I A
B O S N I A
H U N G A R Y
F I N L A N D
L I T H U A N I A
G R E E C E
E S T O N I A
21. Further research and context
Goethe, Farbenkreis zur Symbolisierung des
menschlichen Geistes- und Seelenlebens, 1809.
22. Not only are colours culturally specific....
so is their meaning.
23. ...and so is the meaning of colours
when occuring in flags
24. P O R T U G A L
S P A I N
A N D O R R A
I C E L A N D
R E P U B L I C O F I
F R A N C E
U N I T E D K I N G D
B E L G I O
S W I T Z E R L A N D
I T A L Y
N E T H E R L A N D S
G E R M A N Y
N O R W A Y
D E N M A R K
A U S T R I A
S W E D E N
C R O A T I A
B O S N I A
H U N G A R Y
F I N L A N D
L I T H U A N I A
G R E E C E
E S T O N I A
thank you!
Editor's Notes
OMA European barcode \n
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New annotations, Brazillian Icaro Doria for the magazine Grande Reportagem in Lisbon\n
Den Haag EU flag design challenge\n
Food Flags is a series of ads promoting Sydney International Food Festival in which national emblems were made out of edibles indigenous to the country it represents. They’ve creatively used these images to advertise the international aspect to their festival which took place in October 2009.\n
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Twitter users who have customized their profiles using the themeleon tool. The webbier, the bluer?\n \n
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nr. 16 in the top 20 bulgarian .bg sites\n
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overview from east to westsome countries are bluer than others, overall... it’s colorful\n
here it is nice to point out that the colors of death are black in the west vs white in non-western cultures such as hindu.\n
e.g blue has different meanings for different countries - there is some contestation about the symbolism, but it may include:\nFrance: a color of Paris used on the city's coat of arms, Virgin Mary and bourgeoisie of the Ancien Régime.\nGreece: a symbol of the famed Greek sky and sea, connection with colors of goddess Athena, Alexander the Great's army banners\nSweden: represents truth, loyalty, and justice, associated with coats of arms of previous kings\n
