As you might have noticed, we are fascinated with good design. Bold designs that are good for flags, tend to look great on our funflector reflectors too. We have played around with quite a few flag designs and the bold, red maple leaf on the Canadian flag is one of our favorites. We have safety reflectors with the Swedish and the British flags and also the iconic city flags of Chicago, Washington DC and Amsterdam. Part or our #resist collection are safety reflectors with the maple leaf on one side and human rights and science inspired messages on the other. For each 6-pack sold in our webshop, we donate US$6 to the Sierra Club Canada Foundation.
A New Canadian Flag
February 15th is Canada’s flag day, celebrating the flag’s 55th anniversary. Are you as surprised as we are that the Canadian flag only is that young? Growing up in Sweden and seeing the red and white flag with the maple leaf raised many times at each Winter Olympics, I never thought about that it wasn’t the first Canadian flag. The Swedish flag 🇸🇪 has been around for so long, maybe 500 years, that the origin is unknown. The US flag 🇺🇸 has been around as long as its country, so about 250 years. Before the white and red flag, the Canadian flag was mostly red, with a Union Jack in one corner and a coat of arms in the opposite. It took several attempts and political coalition building to change the flag. In the final round, they had several proposals with maple leaves, but simplicity won and they choose the single red maple leaf on white flanked with two large red fields. 🇨🇦 The observant maple leaf lover will notice that the leaf on the flag has fewer points than a real leaf. During the design process, they cut down the number of points since the details were lost when viewed from a distance. You can read the story of the new Canadian flag here.
Products to buy
Find the red maple leaf design on safety reflectors in the #resist collection and in the globetrotter collection. The reflectors are printed with the following words:
- United by Love
- Women’s Rights are Human Rights
- Celebrate Diversity
- #Equality
- I Love Science
- Canada
When we needed a notebook to keep track of our Canadian work, so we designed one and it turned out we were not the only ones liking it. You can buy it on Zazzle in Canada, the US, the UK, Sweden, Germany and many more. (Search for: 130216423539889285).
Happy flag day !
The funflector team