Post for: #design ^{(2 Posts)}

From time to time I enjoy designing logos, or trying to anyways. It's an interesting challenge to come up with something recognizable, simple and meaningful. Recently I kept thinking of a logo that I knew I had seen but couldn't remember where. 

I knew it was a regular globe symbol with half of the meridians blacked out and that it was in some archival-type photo. Finally tracked it down...

I was born and raised in a small town in north east Oregon called Hermiston, which among few other things is know for it's watermelons. Though I don't actually believe this town needs a flag of it's own I thought it interesting to give it a try: