Flagmaster

Flagmaster is a vexillology magazine published by the Flag Institute and edited by Michael Faul. Since November 2005, the magazine has been printed entirely in colour; it is the second periodical principally about flags to have been so printed (the first being Nordisk Flaggkontakt, the magazine of the Nordic Flag Society).

Flagmaster was mentioned prominently in a 30 September 2006 article in the Economist magazine on the subject of the new flag of the English county of Devon. The article cited the views of Flagmaster editor Michael Faul.

Much of the magazine's content constists of material previously published elsewhere in other languages. Most of the illustrations in the magazine are drawn by Graham Bartram, who also designs and lays out the magazine for printing. The centre pages of the magazine form a pull-out gazette for the Institute, edited by the Institute's librarian, Ian Sumner.

Recent issues have covered the following topics:

Issue 119

• The Red Crystal - A new flag of the Geneva Convention.
• Treasures in the Attic.
• St Olav flag of the Norman people.
• Crosses and Stars - Flags of Australia - Part 2.
• A cultural flag for Hawai'i?
• Lewis and Clark Bicentennial - A forest of Native American flags.
• Flags in the News.
• Wooden Flag for Alaska.
• Oz goes purple?
• Congo-Kinshasa changes again
• Aircraft Markings - Part 3 (Russian Civil War)
• Proportions of the Union Flag
• New Emblems of Venezuela

Issue 118

• After 50 years - A new design for Europe
• Breton Flags in history - Part 4
• Flags of the Third Reich - Part 2
• The end of the Trafalgar season
• A Spanish Hero of Trafalgar
• The return of the Semaphore
• Castilian Nationalist Flags
• A new Flag for Oregon ?
• Flags in the news
• New Flag for Lincolnshire
• NAVA 39 Group photo
• Editorial
• The future of Flags
• Encyclopaedia Flag Plate - United States of America - Part 1

Issue 117

• England Expects - The Bicentenary of Trafalgar
• A Flag for Lincolnshire.
• Flags of the British Mandate of Palestine - Part 2
• Vexilobaires-The XXI Congress of Vexillology report
• Developments in Ukraine.
• German Army Rank Flags, 1925–1927
• The Crosses and Stars - Flag of Australia, Part 1
• Flags in the News.
• Aircraft Recognition Markings - Part 2.
• Polish-Lithuanian Flags at Tannenberg.
• How do you Vex ?
• A small point of interest.
• Not only the French-The Spanish fleet at Trafalgar.

Issue 116

• Historic Flag returns to Japan .
• You can't win them all
• Obituary - Lucien Philippe
• Banners of the Teutonic Knights.
• Historic Flags of Mongolia.
• A Flag for the Holocaust.
• Origin of the Flag of the Dominican Republic
• Bannielou Breizh e Istor, Part 3.
• Flags of Estonia - 1918-1940.
• Flags in the news
• Mesa gets the message - Roswell does not.
• Flags of the Third Reich - Part 1
• German Scout and Guide Banners