Rob Raeside

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Rob Raeside at Washington Flag Conference ICV 24 - 2011 (Photo by Emil Dreyer)

Rob Raeside - Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada Current Director's Flag      I was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1955, and grew up in rural Ayrshire, passionate about Geography, before going to study Geology at Aberdeen. Waiting for the boat to sail to a geological posting in Antarctica, I embarked on graduate studies in Canada where I discovered (a) that graduate degrees cannot be done in 9 months, (b) how much I enjoyed teaching, and (c) that Canada was cold enough for me. Following degrees at Queen's University and the University of Calgary, I accepted a teaching position at Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where I have remained since.      Flags had been in interest for me from age 4, when I painted a globe with the nations of the world, and added their flags on pins. With the arrival of the Internet, the world of flags opened up for me from a few library volumes and occasional sightings to the full realms of vexillology. Joining FOTW in 1995, I soon started editing for Giuseppe Bottasini, before taking over when he moved on to other projects in 1998. I continue to work as editor on the British and Canadian pages. Rob Raeside, 4 October 2011

Pages currently edited:

• Austria
• Belarus
• Bermuda
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Caribbean (Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Caymans, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, British Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands)
• Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, )
• Guyana
• Liechtenstein
• Ireland
• Italy
• Malta
• Moldova
• Peru
• Suriname
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• Dictionary of Vexillology

[Rob is the FOTW Director and responsible for everything else, and a constant inspiration for all of us. - Ed.]

Favorite Illustrations:

Rob is also one of many graphic artist who contributes to FOTW on a regular basis. There are now more than 470 examples
of his work on FOTW. Here are a few favorites:

Cape Breton Regional Municipality		Cape Breton Island (variant)
Riverhead, New York		US Federal Bureau Prisons
Inuvik, NWT		US Marine Hospital Service

     Drawing flags has never been a primary goal for me, however if one is needed, and not available on FOTW, the best way to deal with it is to go ahead and draw it. I work in CorelDraw, which I picked up back in version 3 in 1990, and still enjoy its versatility and practicality even in version 17. Most of the images attributed to me on FOTW are likely modest recoloured or adjusted images, sometimes taking a photograph and simply "flattening it out", sometimes using a graphic element like a small coat of arms, and rewriting the enveloping text, and occasionally redrawing the flag completely based on a high resolution photograph.
Rob Raeside, 11 November 2014

Past Projects and Honors:

• Assistant and editor for Giuseppe Bottasini, Founder of FOTW.
• Vexillologist of the Year 2004: for his long term as director.
• Occasional backlog-busting to assist editors to bring sections of FOTW up to date.

Contact Information:

• e-Mail address at: rob.raeside@gmail.com