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So does the design specifically call for the blue field to be in the upper LEFT corner? Or is the design dependant on where the mast is?
When you see the back side of a US flag they put the blue field in the upper RIGHT so it abuts the mast. Is this technically wrong?
How is something like the Italinan flag flown? Is the green area always to the left or is it again dependant on the mast? Are the colors on the back side of an Italian flag reversed?
Wait… what?
How about the Texas state flag? It has all the elements of the US flag, but simplified and balanced–just what the OP ordered!
Virginia’s has a bare-breasted woman with sword and spear at the ready plant her foot on the chest of the tyrant she just went all Sic Semper Tyrannis on; it’s less like a flag, and more like the best imaginable movie poster for the next Angelina Jolie blockbuster!
Doesn’t change the fact that it’s a beautiful flag. I much prefer it to the current US flag. The US flag isn’t bad, but I think it’s got too many stars and too many stripes.
The Confederate national flags (the Stars and Bars, for example) aren’t nearly as good. There’s something in these three bars that just doesn’t work, and makes me even prefer the US flag’s stripes.
The New Hampshire state flag is pretty awful, I’m sorry to say: http://www.50states.com/flag/image/nunst048.gif
On the plus side, the DC flag is clean, distinctive, and damned sharp-looking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Washington,_D.C.
The different color scheme is definitely an improvement, though I think the seemingly random arrangement of stars combined with most of it being solid green detracts. If we had that sort of color scheme on the modern flag, I’d be happier.
Don’t really like this one, not really sure why.
These are sort of along what I was thinking. Take the upper quadrant and make it the whole flag, and find a way to add maybe a little more color and I could get behind it.
I could take or leave numerology, but it seems to be an important part of the design over time. If we’re going to use it to represent important things, fine, but don’t go over the top with it to the point that it gets cluttered, like our flag now is. This is an abomination, and a perfect example of this having gone too far.
Hey! Colorado’s got an awesome flag too, if I do say so myself. Minnesota’s (and indeed, all of the midwestern states’ flags) sucks eggs.
I think it looks like an oil company’s logo.
I like the flag on a level because it’s the home team, but on a graphic design level, I’m not a huge fan.
The good
I do like the red white and blue. The colors are both popular in our culture and are primary and striking.
The bad
I agree with those who say it’s too cluttered. I get that there is symbolism behind the stripes and stars, but that doesn’t mean that the execution of that symbolism is well done. Stripes in general tend to be less timeless than fields of color, which
Mainly the thing that fails for me is the overall composition. If you take the stars and stripes to be pattern fills, at it’s root, all we have is a rectangle with a color break in one corner. Asymmetry can be a good thing, but in this instance, that blue field is just sitting there.
Lastly, it’s static. While lots of flags limit their color fields to horizontal or vertical lines, horizontal lines are so much more dynamic. Regardless of the principles it stood for, the rectangular variant of the Confederate battle flag has got the dynamism of the diagonal lines.
For similar reasons, for my money, it doesn’t get any better than the Union Jack! I find it so impressive that the mash up of several independent flags was able to have been brought together so elegantly. Despite not having a drop of British blood in me, I have two t-shirts emblazoned with it, just for the graphic design of it.
I’m thinking something that screams Hello Kitty.
Good, yes?
Maryland’s is actually my least favorite flag. It’s too gaudy for me.
I’m a traditionalist. I don’t like non-rectangular flags. I also don’t like letters, words, or numbers on flags, so it gets further points knocked off for the O.
I forgot about Texas. It’s a perfectly adequate flag, but it loses points for being an obvious rip-off of the national flag.
Besides Maryland, my least favorite US flags are the navy blue ones with the state seal. All two dozen or more.
Hah. I’m consistent, too. I said pretty much the same thing in 2005.
Hey, I think Arizona has a really nice looking flag.
We may have a reputation as a state full of Tea Partying wingnuts (unfortunately), but I think our flag is darn nice.
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The state of Georbassippi works for me. Pohio, Vermaishire and Coregoshington are easy on the ears as well.
When flying from a mast, the end with the star field should be at the mast, on the top. When on the surface of something propelled by wind, the star field should be to the rear, and on the surface of anything else mobile, it should be to the front, as though it were flying from a mast. When on an immobile surface, whether horizontal or vertical, it should have the star field at the viewer’s top left corner.
I’m pretty sure this is all laid out in the Flag Code.
And while Virginia does get bonus points for having a bare boob on it (bare boobs make everything better), it’s still Yet Another Seal on Blue. You have to get a pretty close view to be able to tell any of those apart.
I always like NC’s flag from that perspective. In case you forgot which state the flag was for, we put our name on it.
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I don’t think there’s a thing wrong with the American flag. I think it’s beautiful the way it is and I always get teary eyed when I’m watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. You won’t hear the crowd roar like that for any other country’s flag . (ok, maybe the hosting country.)