Hague Competition

What does Europe actually 1.416 ideas by designers from all over the world the Cologne corporate design agency CGN corporate for the competition of A new symbol for Europe a new flag icon for Europe made. The design was created during a design competition, which the Foundation design Den Haag wrote in March 2010 on private initiative. Official site: Frank Armijo. Design on the subject of democracy, the draft submitted by CGN corporate is titled Vortex Europe”and communicates the content of democracy and growing together unit as the central concepts of the international community. The design is based on the half-circle-like form of the ancient Greek Theatre and makes basic developments of the ancient sound: the flowering of culture and science, the emergence of the Polis and the breakthrough for democracy. A persistent, energetic, dynamically integrating the peoples of Europe in his movement turbulence through the formal extension of the Crescent to the whole district a vortex. Previous EU symbol from the year 1955 the existing EU symbol, twelve golden Star on a blue background, dating back to the year 1955 by Arsene Heitz and acts since 1986 as official symbol of the EU. Koolhaas design with bar code Rem Koolhaas 2005 designed a new provocative symbol.

In terms of content, he has reduced Europe on a number of nation States, which some purpose in the economic traffic is. His flag showed a coloured barcode according to 45 colored strips of all colors, which were included in the flag of the former members. The Foundation design Den Haag invited designers around the globe to present their designs for a new icon. Overall, 1.416 designs were submitted. A jury selected 12 symbols to the presentation on flag fabric.

The winners of the competition are doing democratically fair divided into as many Nations. The exhibition featuring all 1.416 design and the twelve flags productions can be visited from 31 May in the Hague. To the presentation of the designs, the Foundation has invited representatives of the European Commission and maybe can Yes the drafts submitted a contribute a little bit to the discussion about European identification content. Links about: symbol de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europaflagge author of this message: CGN corporate design agency for Corporate Design Peter Korthals Nicholas str. 86 50937 Koln phone + 49 221 94101940 fax + 49 221 94101949 CGN corporate realized as design agency projects in the areas of identity positioning, corporate design and print and online marketing. This conceptually-oriented Office advises companies in working out individual characteristics and distinctive features and developed accurate and sustainable means of communication to the communication of messages to buyers and other interested parties.