Beauty of Fractals

Friday, February 12, 2010

Valentine's Day 2010

Love is...

Giving me a flower picked from the roadside
Drawing cartoons and leaving them on my keyboard
Phoning during the day just to say, "Hi, I miss you"
Seeing the humorous side of things

Walking hand in hand along the beach
Being there for me when I am unwell
Spontaneously buying me flowers and ice-cream
Putting up with my cat

Sharing your entrepreneurial ideas and mad inventions with me
Being a true soul mate
Sharing moments together
Making life better by just being around
and most of all...

Loving me just the way I am

Happy Valentine's Day

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Sunday, February 7, 2010

New Zealand Flag Design Ideas

Is it time to change our national flag?

My personal feeling is that with the highest unemployment in 17 years and a health system that is struggling to cope our nation should be focusing on these higher priorities and not be considering undertaking a highly expensive referendum to decide whether or not we should change our national flag.

Having said that though our New Zealand flag is very similar to the Australian flag and so perhaps it is time for us to consider a new design that represents New Zealand and its cultural heritage in 2010.

I have for a long time felt that the white fern on the black background you often see at various sporting events is very striking and would make a good national flag. This partially influenced the black and white design ideas I have come up with.

Fractal art is synonymous with spirals and so is a perfect medium to create koru inspired shapes. The koru shape in Maori culture depicts new beginnings, growth and harmony. I particularly like working with red, white and black colour combinations as they are very striking and in New Zealand this colour combination is synonymous with Maori art and culture, so highly appropriate for use in flag designs.

I had a lot of fun creating this series of contemporary flag design ideas and the one that I like the most is the first one I have presented.

Enjoy!