Posted on 05/08/2002 9:58:49 AM PDT by Timesink
EU may get new 'bar-code' logo
The European Union may be set to get a new bar-code-style logo as part of an image overhaul.
It would replace the current blue EU flag which has 12 gold stars representing member states.
European Commission president Romano Prodi commissioned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas to create the new design.
It places all the colours of the national flags of EU nations in strips alongside each other.
Mr Koolhaas says he wants to show the unique diversity and unity of Europe in one image.
The Independent reports Mr Prodi wants departments across the EU to look at altering Brussels' visual communication in the light of Mr Koolhaas' work.
Once member states agreed to the change, flags and letterheads would be changed.
Some designers don't like the new logo.
Bruce Dunlop, of Bruce Dunlop and Associates, said: "This is one of those ideas that would seem great around a boardroom table after a couple of Aussie chardonnays, but in practice it doesn't work."
The current EU flag was officially adopted by the European Commission in 1986.
Story filed: 08:51 Wednesday 8th May 2002
Luckily, I have an alternate URL:
No wait, now it's back again. What's up with that? None of the other "Caption this Image" graphics disappeared while this one did.
Speaking of prophesy. I was looking at the designs of the Euro notes and I noticed that the old proposed design (the woman riding on a bull) isn't there. Instead they have these architectural designs. Did someone tell the Eurocrats what that symbol actually means? Did it become too 'hot?'
(It seems to work for me...)
Mark W.
Damn. I don't have anywhere else to upload it either so I can link it either. I'll have to figure out something.
Thanks for the info, registered.
| EU rejects call to change flag |
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_583559.html
There are no plans to change the European Union flag, Commission officials in Brussels have insisted, despite a new design proffered by a Dutch architect.
The traditional EU flag, with 12 stars on a blue background has been unchanged since it was adopted in 1986.
The suggestion for replacing it came during a Commission-sponsored brain-storming meeting last year to discuss the future role of Brussels as the "capital of Europe".
Rem Koolhaas, invited to take part as a noted architectural innovator, suggested that the "diversity and unity" of Europe could better be reflected by a "flag barcode" - a flag with a series of vertical stripes including all the colours in the national flags of the member states.
His idea appeared in a summary of the meeting published earlier this year - along with his suggestion that all EU buildings in Brussels should be replaced by one big "idyllic" campus on the site of an old customs warehouse beside a canal.
Other suggestions for developing the future functions of Brussels in its increasing role as the EU capital included setting up an "Institute for Multi-lingualism", a "Centre for Advanced Studies" and introducing international architectural competitions for designs for a future "European Quarter" in Brussels.
"All the ideas put forward at our meeting have been welcomed with interest, but we did not commission a design for a new flag and there is no intention of replacing the current one" said a Commission spokesman.
The gold stars on the present blue flag were never intended to depict the number of member states - otherwise the flag would have been rendered obsolete in 1995 when three new countries joined to make the current 15-nation EU.
Instead the stars, forming an exact circle, are placed in the positions of the hours on the face of a clock. They "represent the union of the peoples of Europe", according to the Commission.
The flag was originally the emblem of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, which pre-dates the European Union, has 42 members, and upholds the European Convention of Human Rights.
Story filed: 12:11 Wednesday 8th May 2002
I do not see what this has to do with prophesy. Does the bar code read 666? Is it going to be placed on the Europens foreheads or hands as a mark that you will not be able to buy or sell without it? Why not study the subject before making ill-informed comments?
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