National Stereotypes as Typographical Flags

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Quick: what are the first three things that come to your head when you think of Norway? Fjords was in there, right? Right. In Kirill Zaytsev’s clever series Flagsters, which we spotted over at My Modern Met, the Moscow-based graphic designer plays with typography to represent the flags of the world’s countries with their written-out cultural stereotypes. Most of them are pretty spot on — especially Germany’s, which made us laugh — but the result is also just quite nice to look at. Click through to check out Flagsters, and then head here to see more of Zaytsev’s work.

Brazil. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

Japan. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

Norway. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

Sweden. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

Switzerland. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

USA. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

Germany. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

United Kingdom. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

Italy. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

Russia. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev

Jordan. Image credit: Kirill Zaytsev