Brooklyn Flag Project Finalists Represent Green-Wood Cemetery, Bay Ridge, Fort Greene & More
Brooklyn Based just announced the eight finalists for its Brooklyn Flag Project, with the talented winners depicting a wide swath of our borough – including Green-Wood Cemetery’s Gothic arch, a view of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Bay Ridge, and the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene.
In June, Brooklyn Based partnered with UncommonGoods to launch the project, for which they asked “design-minded folks from all over the borough to create a flag reflecting their neighborhood.” After the last of the designs were submitted, a team of panelists, including Former Borough President Marty Markowitz, Tina Roth Eisenberg – the graphic designer known as Swissmiss, and UncommonGoods founder David Bolotsky, narrowed down the entries to the eight finalists.
Originally, it was planned that UncommonGoods would produce the top three designs for sale – which Brooklyn Based announced has unfortunately fallen through.
UncommonGoods awarded cash prizes to the top three winners, but decided not to produce the flags for sale after all–they told us that they had hoped to see flags from a wider variety of neighborhoods, though we thought the entries from East New York, Bay Ridge, Flatbush, Coney Island and Ditmas Park nicely rounded out the multiple flags designed for Greenpoint and Fort Greene–locales that lots of graphic designers call home. Even if you can’t buy one of these to hang from your fire escape, we think it’s worth taking a peek at the winners.
We agree it’s worth taking a peek at the eight finalists (representing Prospect Heights, Bay Ridge, Greenwood, Greenpoint, Fort Greene Bushwick, and Williamsburg) – which are all accompanied by really lovely, quirky and poignant descriptions about the neighborhoods.
Plus, we’re loving that one of the finalists, Emily Gorski, gives a shout-out to the large colony of Argentinian Quaker Parrots that call Green-Wood Cemetery home!
Describing her flag, Emily says:
It also represents an important permanent resident of Greenwood–the Argentinian Quaker Parrot! They nest near and in the Cemetery and are found all over the neighborhood.
Congratulations to all of the winners!
Image by Emily Gorski, via Brooklyn Based.