Create a symbol to represent Nibley!
Mayors Flag Design Contest Due July 22nd
Submit a Nibley City flag design for your chance to make history as the symbol representing our community is created. Every entry receives a small prize, the top entries selected receive cash prizes and more!
Flags are important. They are a symbol that can remind us of who we are, how we got here, and that we are all in this together. Nibley doesn’t have a flag. If you want to see a fun discussion of flags, watch: Roman Mars Flag Ted Talk. Unless you are from Pocatello like my Mom and Dad, you might really enjoy learning about flags and how they are designed.
I love flags. I have a flag from every country I have ever visited. I love seeing and understanding how people have agreed to represent their community to the world.
Nibley needs a flag. This Heritage Days, we are conducting a Flag Design Contest. It’s open to kids, adults, and anyone in between.
To design a flag, you need to know that there are five principles that should be considered in your design:
- Keep it simple. The flag should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory
- Use symbols that mean things to the community; the flags images, colors, or pattern should relate to what it symbolizes
- Use two or three basic colors from a standard color set: red, white, blue, green, yellow, and black
- No lettering or seals. No writing of any kind—if you need to write what your flag is trying to symbolize, the design has failed
- Be distinctive
Submissions must be drawn on a 1 inch by 1.5 inch space like this one:
Seems small, right? But this is because a three-by-five-foot flag on a pole 100 feet away looks about the same size as a one-by-one-and-a-half-inch rectangle seen about 15 inches from your eye. You’d be surprised by how compelling and simple the design can be when you hold yourself to that limitation. Like these flags:
So what does Nibley mean to you?
How would you represent our City?
What do the shapes on your flag design mean?
What do the colors mean?
Why does this flag design symbolize Nibley to you?
Entries can be dropped off in the utility drop box at Nibley City Hall, 455 W 3200 S in Nibley, UT. Or if open bring them in to the front office for your prize! Enter as many times as you like. Prize limit is a quarter per person. Candy and stickers—you get these every time you turn in a submission!
- Keep it simple. The flag should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory
- Use symbols that mean things to the community; the flags images, colors, or pattern should relate to what it symbolizes
- Use two or three basic colors from a standard color set: red, white, blue, green, yellow, and black
- No lettering or seals. No writing of any kind—if you need to write what your flag is trying to symbolize, the design has failed
- Be distinctive
Every entry gets a prize—when you drop off your flag design, fill out the entry form and collect a quarter, your own American flag sticker, and a piece of candy!
The top three selections will get a $50 prize. The winner of the Nibley City Flag Design Contest will get a $100 prize, a genuine fabric flag to keep, a framed copy of their entry and a certificate signed by the Mayor.
Entries will be judged according to the five principles outlined here and on the entry form. Good luck—I am excited to see what we come up with!
Mayor Dustin