Agree. I see the MD flag everywhere (often in a crab-shaped form)
The only hard thing about the Chicago flag is the six-pointed stars (they’re not quite the same as the simpler-to-draw Star-of-David style six-pointed star), but I don’t think the exact representation of the stars is necessary. Draw two light-blue horizontal bars on a field and four reddish stars of whatever type in the center white bar, and you’ve got an image that is recognizable as a Chicago flag.
Around here, I would say the Chicago flag is more recognizable – it’s a ubiquitous city symbol – but the Illinois state flag is less so, although still commonly seen. (Many buildings fly the American, Illinois, and Chicago flags – the school around the corner, for example, does.)
My design aesthetic agrees with the vexillologists. I hate the majority of state flags and prefer the ones that are simple and recognizable from a distance, but usually with twist, so it’s not the overly common three-bars-of-colors you’ll see with many national flags. I love Arizona, Ohio, and New Mexico. Texas is a little on the boring side, but its iconic and symbolic (I can’t help but think of the Czech flag when I see it, though.) It’s got the whole Lone Star State going on, but also the basic ideas of the national flag (red, white and blue; star on blue field) showing as it’s one star (state) out of many which the national colors in the background. Colorado’s is reasonably cool, but there’s something about the colors or design that I want refined, Alaska’s is pretty neat. Maryland’s is cacophonous, but kinda works. Most of the rest I simply don’t like at all.
Yeah, I probably would have stuck with the yellow and green which, while perhaps a bit garish as colors, are instantly recognizable as Green Bay (or the Oakland A’s). Add the G and you’re good to go for a solid flag. This one is a little busy in the middle, but it’s more the color gradients that kind of date it for me (I don’t think that look will look good in the future – I already think it’s a bit too late 90s or 00s.) I assume the green and blue represent and the curve represent the bay meeting the land?
That said, the old flag – man – that’s a new one to me. Ironically cool in an over-the-top literalist sort of way.
I’ve lived in Michigan for 20 years now and still did not know the details of the flag and even after reading the wiki about I’m still like WTF!
What I always assumed were two deer supporting the crest are actually an elk and a moose. Neither of which I have ever seen in the wild in Michigan, and I’ve been to the UP several times. Most people assume it is two deer because that is what we see all of the time dead on the side of the road. And why don’t these big strong elk and moose bucks have any genitals? I mean the are poised as to show them and how strong they are, why not even a bump? The eagle is neutered as well, but has a club foot, huh?
And that guy in the center is supposed to be leaning on a gun, sure looks like a walking stick to me. We got better looking guns at statehouse protest.
And the damn thing has nothing in English, its all Latin. I have no idea what any of it means without looking it up. “Si Quæris Peninsulam Amœnam Circumspice” is the state motto? And it means “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” , what the hell does that even mean?
This one is total flag fail.
Well, this is utterly fascinating. (/Sheldon Cooper)
It seems that the Kentucky coat of arms which appears on the state flag has undergone changes over the years.
This historical depiction of the coat of arms of Kentucky was illustrated by the American engraver Henry Mitchell in State Arms of the Union , published in 1876 by Louis Prang. The design depicts two men embracing, with the motto “United we stand, divided we fall”. The original Kentucky state seal, adopted in 1792 and designed in 1793, was lost in a fire that destroyed the state capitol in 1814. Because the description originally adopted by the General Assembly did not specify how the “two friends” should look or how they should be embracing, several variants have been produced."
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So apparently the frontiersman on the left of the curent flag is a later addition.
Wouldn’t you say it has a faintly soviet whiff about it?
I think more Vietnamese, actually.
But the used car salesman goes back to the original?
The problem with the new Green Bay flag is the use of gradients in the center device. I don’t recall hearing vexillogists opine on the topic, but although gradients are common in graphic design, they seem out of place on a flag, perhaps because of the difficulty in reproducing them using traditional flag making methods. Easier with modern tech, perhaps, but it still seems wrong.
I was hoping we’d go back to the pre-1956 flag, which is a simple, attractive design. And yes, it was pointed out in the media at the time that the new design was based on the actual Stars and Bars. Still, given what we were replacing - both the racist 1956 flag, and that gawd-awful mishmash flag - most Georgians were okay with our current design.
Oh boy, I love flags. I have about 40 currently and fly one on the front of my house all the time. Saturday is flag changing day. As a native Marylander, I love our flag. I also love my County flag and City flag and give them equal time on the pole. I also have national flags and a few odd ones like Bavaria and the Conch Republic (which is currently flying). I also have flags from cities like Chicago and New Orleans. Some, like the former East German flag or the Soviet naval ensign, don’t get flown. I don’t need that kind of trouble. Passersby have told me they look forward to seeing what goes up next. I hope to eventually have at least 52 so I can fly a different one each week of the year.
I’ve often thought that’s a very nice set (Maryland, Montgomery County, and Rockville).
I don’t much like the old flag, but good God is that new flag terrible.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Flag_of_Howard_County%2C_Maryland.svg
Goodness, but Howard County Maryland’s flag has poor feng shui. I don’t recall ever seeing it. It seems like there’s a good reason for that.
That flag and South Carolina are the last two clearly racist state flags.
Florida and Alabama are maybes.
You mean my New Hampshire design? I did it with gentle irony intended, since NH insists on clinging to the now-reduced-to-rubble Old Man as a state symbol. Think of all the tourists, and their disappointment when they get the bad news.
Why is South Carolina’s flag “clearly racist”?
Ah … I had thought it was a serious design (not by you) and didn’t get the comment.
Probably because it was designed as the new “National Flag” of South Carolina back in 1861.
I’m “Wha…?” about how that is inherently racist as well.
I don’t wanna speak for DrDeth, but I think he’s conflating that South Carolina used to fly the Confed flag alongside others until very recently.
Or that the North Carolina flag is basically the one it flew as a state of the Confederacy.