Jeremy Deller flies flag for Thomas More's Utopia, 500 years later

Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion

The bright yellow flag hoisted up the Somerset House flagpole on Monday morning bore a universally recognised symbol: the smiley. Jointly designed by the artist Jeremy Deller and the graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge, it launched a year of programming by the London venue to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s seminal work Utopia.

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