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Innovative and Sobering Flag Art

6 November 2008 135 views No Comment

This one has been circulating in chain letters for awhile, but I felt I had to revive it…

Icaro Doria, a Brazillian artist, created a “Meet the World” campaign which takes the flags of several nations and then uses their colors to illustrate sobering statistics. Just as a picture can be exponentially more valuable in conveying emotion than words, a representational chart or image can clearly surpass cold numbers in revealing the bigger picture:

China

china flag art

European Union

european union - eu flag art

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of the flags here

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