“Flag Designs Fly In Wind” 

Was interesting to see a mention on stuff.co.nz last week about the work Jarred and I did creating the flagtest.nz site:

Having trouble visualising what the new flag might look like from a rectangle of pixels on your computer screen?

Two Wellington web designers have solved that problem.

Dan Newman and Jarred Bishop have created a website, flagtest.nz, which shows various flag designs either blowing in a “raging southerly wind”, or hanging down without the breeze.

That’s where the “journalism” ended. Following these comments and images of flags was this terrible line:

Are you on Team Maori Design or Team Fern for a new New Zealand flag?

I had no involvement in the article on Stuff, but feel obliged to point out and distance myself from the stupidity of the above line. Fairfax don’t give “credit” to a particular journalist for this article so there’s no individual author to blame. As I mentioned on Twitter, I’ve long been disappointed with the quality and standards displayed by Fairfax.