I figured the new Canopticon needed its own flag, in dirty grays:

I was trying to think of something a la “Who Watches The Watchmen” — a wake up call that could be bombed across the new panoptiposters quickly. Stencils and stickers dominate deployment quickness, essential in high-surveillance environments.

I thought about minimalism, line and color, and once I started sketching it out, the Union Jack. The three-color scheme and the symbol-circle-field pattern should also have scary associations. Whimsically, it looks like driving East through Saskatchewan on the Trans-Canada at daybreak, which has a whole bunch of Canadian volk-ish associations. And it might even look like an eye.

This is version 2.0, I’m probably going to play more with the palette. The lines cut the field into a couple of rectangles, all of which should be golden-ratio chops. The leaf-lines fit to the edges of a circle nicely, also giving it shades of an upside-down, crossed out peace symbol.

I tried to have text but nothing added to the look of the thing. This symbol, Jared, is trying to be high-context in a low-context culture.

It should stencil nicely, but no one run out and start sticking yet — that’s what they want you to do. Just get some printed and pay cash.