Jackson Flag - Embroidered Hat

A Project Chane Collab with Chris Myers   “I’m an architect, I live in the neighborhood, I work in the neighborhood. I just kinda stumbled on the fact that Jackson had a flag 15 years ago. I think we were marching in the St. Paddy’s Day Parade and somebody had one on, and I was like, ‘What is that?’ Somebody told me about it, and I did some research and looked it up. It turned out it had been the [Jackson] flag since 1992. The cool thing is it was almost completely democratic in its design, which doesn’t usually end up in good design. They formed a commission ... and put out a call for submissions from everybody. They got over a thousand entries - mostly from Jackson Public School students and other local students.” They sent it to a designer, Clay Moss, who took the common themes from the top 25 entries and created the flag we see today. The flag’s symbolism was simple: a gold star representing Jackson’s position as state capital; a blue center for Jackson’s location along the Pearl