Knowing the World - UPDATE

From "A Reader" - whoever you are, thanks for pointing us to the real creator of the designs featured in the post Knowing the World.  Staff Reporter sdcmasterpieces wrote that post after months of intensive research, but was taken in by the same cunning Norwegian diplomat that is currently mentioned in the global chain mentioned below.  Damn those Norwegian diplomats and their crafty tales.

Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He is part of the team (with Luis Silva Dias, João Roque, Andrea Vallenti and João Roque) that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail. Icaro gave us a small statement about the campaign, translated by Isabell Erdmann:

The magazine Revista Grande Reportagem is a Hard Journalism magazine, on the same line as the Times. The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today.
This is how we thought of the concept Meet the World.

We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.

The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola, etc.

With regards to the email presenting the campaign as being done by a Norwegian diplomat, this information is completely wrong. There is no Norwegian diplomat called Charung Gollar, there was no presentation in the UNO, and the campaign is not called ‘The Power of the Stars’. This was all invented and is going round the world via email.

That’s it, basically.

ICARO DORIA

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Comments

[c-mon de curri]

I actually have met the Norweigan diplomat - Charung. He is a very nice guy and is obviously very distressed at these comments. But he is very glad the messages of the world are getting sung, in what ever form they take.

[Fatoompshk]

I have Charung, he was intercepted coming through customs under a false prosthetic limb and by god he will tell us truth, or he will never clap eyes on a fiord again!!!

[Barnaby]

Fatoompshk, we need him alive... make sure he has access to rollmops. Over.

[Cecil]

Another thing ...fairly sure there is not a nobel prize for marketing anything but almost certainly not for marketing politics (that would be like the grand prize for spin and lies - great to sell soap or liberial governments but surely not worthy of THE Prize) .

Have to admit old alfred nobel has been wrong about a few things (he actually said that the use of high explosives like dynamite in weaponry might eventually lead to the extinction of war: The day that two army corps can annihilate one another in one second, the civilised nations will shrink from war and discharge their troops) but the prize for peace has usually gone to mediators and negotiators, and the others (chemistry, physics, medicine and literature) split brain, pavolovs dog, polymers, DNA, lasars, liquid crystals and the odd good book

If there was a prize for political spin the lets face it it is the "badies" of the political world that have the best logos (symbols and branding) and the best campaigns (who can forget marching tanks into poland anyway) - the Nobel prize should perhaps be retrospecively awarded to Bennito and Adlof with Mao and Uncle Ho in there too and as they are yet to recieve theirs I am not sure if Charung Gollar is really in line for his...

Pro pace et fraternitate gentium, this is the holy grail (scientists and peace lovers have to have something that helps them keep the faith...)

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