Submitted by: Signs Plus
By now you have seen the brilliant blue and green Bellingham Flag, designed by Brad Lockhart of LARIAT Creative with the Downtown Bellingham Partnership. The symbolic Bellingham community flag is seen flying high all over the city and displayed in business and car windows in the form of a sticker – as well as drawn, painted and colored by local children in educational settings.
On April 24, the Bellingham City Council passed the Bellingham Flag Resolution, making Lockhart’s design the city’s first ever official flag.
“I’m excited to see so many adopt it,” says Bob Pritchett, owner of Faithlife.
In fact, inspired by the community spirit and pride, Pritchett worked with Signs Plus to have a larger rendition of this iconic flag design created for display just outside of the Faithlife building in Downtown Bellingham.
“We were inspired by the image of the flag as a sticker with the rounded corners,” says Pritchett. “It was like a sticker you would put on a stick pin for a map.”
With that vision in mind, the large sign was created with the pin red round top and the stick below as if to signify Bellingham’s placement on the map. And now, as a result, you’ll see local residents and tourists alike pose under the sign for a quick picture of their time in Bellingham or as a sign of pride for their community.
“I’m an enthusiastic fan,” says Pritchett of the design and purpose behind the flag – and now the large sign housed just outside the Faithlife building.
