Hello I created this thread for people who like flag design and maps and herlady please enjoy posting creations I will be posting my Creations as well.
185 posts and 162 image replies omitted.>>3286he's deeply wrong about california and colorado btw. I don't know what it is about NAVA's design codes that makes these people treat them like written gospel. there's something to be said about the eurocentrism implied there too, especially with the 'no lettering' rule. maybe I should give the actual pamphlet a read again sometime (it's been forever); here it is for those curious:
https://nava.org/good-flag-bad-flag >>3288What with this and Utah, I feel like every modern vexillologist thinks more about how their flag would work as branding on a screen instead of an actual flag in the wind
>>3292A good flag should be easily adaptable to many brand formats, to be honest. I'm sure if you visited a tourist shop in California, Arizona or New Mexico, their flags would be on everything. I know for a fact it's the case with cities like St Louis, Chicago. and DC though. Utah has always been big on the beehive imagery due to its significance in Mormonism, which, hmm..
>>3295Skinny; fat star would look better if the sun were also fat.
>>3295I love the fat star one in particular but both look good. Different vibes tho imo: the skinny star looks more militaristic or austere or sinister to me, the fat star looks more friendly and lively and protagonistic to me. I think the fat star type is much rarer in vexillology than the first type. As far as irl examples I think star number 1 has been used in both soviet and american symbology. Star number 2 brings to mind the Chinese communist partisans old symbology and south american revolutionaries like the shining path
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>>3620Curious how Catherine Clark Gallery no longer lists the price on artsy dot not
Yo. More stuff from my worldbuilding thing. This time, I want to show you:
- A redesign of the Mecanist Union's flag. Yes, yet another one!
- A redesign of the Organization's flag.
- A roundel for the Pacifican Air Force. I changed their name a bit
- And as a bonus, an old flag I made at random when I was bored. Don't mind the country's name, it's just a random name I came up with back then.
So, what can I say about those?
Mecanist Union flag:
>removed bottom green stripe
>replaced central emblem with a coat of arms thingy
>said coat of arms has a green ribbon, figured out how to make a simple one
>W H E A T
>changed shades of red and green. Again.
<could do a simpler emblem at the center with a green background instead of a white one, but I was so happy with this coat of arms thing I made that I decided to put it on the flag
<overall, very happy with the final result, although there is still much room for improvement, like adding details and text to the ribbon
Organization flag:
>redesigned emblem. I wanted it to be a bit more reminiscent of Nazi symbols (Hakenkreuze and Nazi flag), but IMO it feels neither original nor interesting to look at -_-
>brighter shade of red to set it more appart from the Mecanist flag (and look a tiny bit more like a Nazi flag, obviously)
<any advice on what makes a symbol evil AND iconic?
Confederate States of Pacifica Air Force roundel:
(they're still a United States analogue, I just thought this name sounded better How do worldbuilders find good names?)
>8 stars arranged in a circle with two orange stripes on the outer rim, meant to evoke their flag
<will probably rework it to look like a USAF roundel
>uhhhhh
>that's about it i guess
Bonus flag:
>oooooooooooh shiny!
>I like the colors and the red stripe things.
>will definitely give it to a country in my project when I stop being obsessed by the MU
Honestly surprised that nobody's made an Isn'treali flag with the Star of David swapped for the glyph of Khorne.
>>4025>glyph of Khornewhat's that?
>>3803the text is a bit unreadable
>it's intentionalehh, i mean ok?
>>5260For the few who care and wonder, the reason the order of the colors was altered is not only to represent the "red banner", but i was taught as a kid that red represented the blood of those who died for our independence and the gold/yellow was for our bast gold mines, so i decided to place the blood of the people over material wealth.
No flags with trees?
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