When designing the logo back in 2010 ... the flag with the stars in the 3-2-3-2-3 pattern was actually the first official flag of the U.S. beginning in 1777, according to USHistory.org.

To do this, he looked at all the flags we’ve flown throughout American history, found the most common patterns, and figured out which of those patterns worked for a given number of stars.

Bowie is a sociologist at Northern Arizona University whose Emblemetric blog examines patterns ... logos and be known simply by their symbols. Peripheral nations, however, must use their flags ...

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. SI: How did this idea for integrating the local flags with the team logos come about? RD: For us, it really started around the brainstorming for ...

The multicolored Windows flag is no more. Windows 8 will do away with the wavy Windows logo that Microsoft has used in one form or another for the last 20 years, and replace it with a logo that's ...