Meet the World

Meet the World

Grande Reportagem is a Portuguese news magazine known for its photo-journalism and investigative reporting. Since January 2005 it has been running a series (developed for them by the ad agency FCB Publicidad) called "Meet the World" where national flags are used to graph a social/political issue specific to the particular country.

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Icaro Doria, a member of the concept team, said:

"We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO."

(quote via BrazilianArtists.net)

http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2006/flags-meet-the-world/

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http://www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags/index2.htm