Artist Steven Frost finds hands-on ways to teach students about design principals. In his undergraduate course, Designing Alternative Media Platforms, the Media Studies insructor assigned students to create听new flags for the city of Boulder, Colorado. The听flags needed to be simple, yet memorable and immediately recognizable. Below are several examples of the flags, designed primarily in Illustrator, with explanations from the students who created them.听
I have the three red lines to symbolize the three red flatirons. I have the ponderosa tree in the center because that鈥檚 a pretty important and threatened tree species that Boulder has a lot of. 听The white background represents how I see Boulder as a very pure, very beautiful place."
鈥擲arah Bustamante
The three triangles are the Flatirons. The blue is for the blue skies that we have in Colorado, yellow is for the sun, green is for the open space and the outdoorsy culture that we have here.鈥�
鈥擲arah Farley
I really like the way the Boulder Bandshell looks at night鈥攖he one on Canyon and Broadway鈥攚hen it鈥檚 all neon and lit up. I wanted to incorporate that with the colors of the sun, and then just kind of an evergreen tree with a blue sky. A simple, flat, illustration.鈥�
鈥擬ax Hofert