Westwood

Westwood is Cincinnati's largest neighborhood BOTH in terms of area and population, so you know what other 51 neighborhoods?!  You can suck it! That's what!  See the colossus below.


So the first angle I worked was using pan-Westside colors and trying to use trees to symbolize the Western Woods.  I needed a tree (off of another flag preferably) to symbolize these woods.  The first flag I came across with a nice tree was the city of Oakland California.


So the first attempt was fairly simple just using three Oakland trees.  I've given up on the cream as a pan-Westside color.  Cream on a flag just looks like dirty white.

FLAG 1

When I looking for keys on flags for Mt. Auburn I had used this flag's key for the Prospect Hill flag.  This is the flag of Oplany, a village in the Czech Republic.

The wave on the side would be a nice reference for the waves on the Cincinnati flag.  So I used this a a template for the next couple tries.

I flipped the wave and decreased the space the white portion takes up.  I put the tree on the hoist side (the left side) to symbolize the Westside and the tree the woods.

FLAG 2

Then simply swapping the colors.

FLAG 3

Then I went back to the West Price Hill flag because it had the W for West Price Hill or Westside if you prefer.  I took the pine trees off of the Oplany flag because the fit the space where the panther was before.  I tried to seperate the W into two W's to stand for West Wood.  It wasn't executed extremely well, some of the lines are a bit off, but I think you get the idea.

FLAG 4

I like the last flag but, again, it could be done much better.  Between flags 2 and 3, I think I prefer 2 except the tree graphic's borders look better when the tree is a darker color.  I even like the simplicity of FLAG 1.  Tough call this week for me.

Votes/comments/ and submissions, as always, are welcome.