jaker52 112 Posted July 30, 2014 Post your favorite flags here and explain the design if possible.Mine is the St. Louis city flagIt shows the Mississippi and Missouri rivers meeting with the city being the yellow circle. The saint symbol and the colors are because of French colonization. I would like to see what comes up. It can be from any city, state, or country. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
illwauk 423 Posted July 30, 2014 MarylandNew MexicoSouth Carolina 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaker52 112 Posted July 30, 2014 MarylandNew MexicoSouth CarolinaMDThe black and gold design on the flag is the coat of arms of the Calvert family. It was granted to George Calvert as a reward for his storming a fortification during a battle (the vertical bars approximate the bars of the palisade).[citation needed] The red and white design is the coat of arms of the Crossland family, the family of Calvert's mother, and features a cross bottony. Since George Calvert's mother was an heiress, he was entitled to use both coats of arms in his banner. It is one of only four US state flags that does not contain the color blue.NMThe Daughters of the American Revolution pushed New Mexico to design a contemporary and unique flag in 1920. A contest to design the new state flag was won by Dr. Harry Mera of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mera was an archaeologist who was familiar with the Zia Sun Symbol found at Zia Pueblo on a 19th-century pot. The symbol has sacred meaning to the Zia. Four is a sacred number which symbolizes the Circle of Life: the four directions, the four times of day, the four stages of life, and the four seasons. The circle binds the four elements of four together. His winning design is the flag that the state uses today.[1] The salutation, “I salute the flag of the State of New Mexico and the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among united cultures," was many years ago commonly recited in New Mexico public schools after the United States pledge of allegiance.SChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_CarolinaSource: Wikepedia 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrRangersFan 8 Posted July 30, 2014 ????? What in the world is THAT supposed to be? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
illwauk 423 Posted July 30, 2014 Madison:Chicago:Washington DC: 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Naoned Pride 11 Posted July 30, 2014 ????? What in the world is THAT supposed to be?Lybia under Ghadaffi I suppose.My favourites so far:Alsace (french region)Veneto (italian region, the stripes float independently from the main flag)Kingdom of LaosPersia (one version of the persian flag) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oaklandhusker 20 Posted July 30, 2014 Animal Farm reference? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IceCap 22,605 Posted July 30, 2014 Animal Farm reference?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Libya_under_Gaddafi#Great_Socialist_People.27s_Libyan_Arab_Jamahiriya_.281977.E2.80.932011.29 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MichiganPackers 7 Posted July 30, 2014 The plain green flag posted earlier was the flag of Libya until the relatively recent revolution during the Arab Spring took place.Here is my favorite flag:East Germany (1949-1990)The hammer represents the working class, the compass represents the intelligentsia, and the rye around the two represents farmers. Black, red, and gold are in horizontal stripes just like the flag of West Germany (same flag as the current reunified Germany) from the flag of the Weimar Republic. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
illwauk 423 Posted July 30, 2014 Just found out Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design had a special challenge for some of its students to design a new flag to replace the city's notoriously terrible banner. Most of these are just as bad, but there's a few good ones. Here's my favorite. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NOppenheimer 28 Posted July 31, 2014 Gotta go with new Mexico (see above). Simple, great colors, and you know it's New Mexico. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orgo 65 Posted July 31, 2014 Playing Europa Universalis kindled my passing interest in historical flags and heraldry.Veneto (italian region, the stripes float independently from the main flag)[redacted]Venice had a sweet flag due to that winged lion.Favourite Canadian flags:I liked that it's quite colourful. A little busy, but it's based on the New Brunswick provincial coat-of-arms.Quebec City's flag evokes both Champlain's ship and its famous city walls.P.S. Toronto has a nice flag also. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AHcreative 505 Posted July 31, 2014 Post your favorite flags here and explain the design if possible.Mine is the St. Louis city flagIt shows the Mississippi and Missouri rivers meeting with the city being the yellow circle. The saint symbol and the colors are because of French colonization. I would like to see what comes up. It can be from any city, state, or country. I came to this thread with the intentions of posting this. A homer pick? Perhaps, but it is an awesome flag. I love the symbolism, the symmetry, and the color balance. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Western Michigan 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Simple and very aesthetically pleasing... Arizona. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SFGiants58 14,559 Posted July 31, 2014 Portland, OregonI just love it. It's got wonderful colors and an interesting take on a cross design (with lines leading to a star formed in negative space). 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
illwauk 423 Posted July 31, 2014 Simple and very aesthetically pleasing... Arizona.D'oh... how did I forget this one. I loved those old Cardinals jerseys with the flag on them.The Arizona Wranglers, which took their colors from the state flag, looked good too. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marble21 430 Posted July 31, 2014 Always had a soft spot for the triskelion on the flag of the Isle of Man. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
(probably)notabandwagonfan 221 Posted July 31, 2014 I personally love Nepal's flag just because it isn't a rectangle. (Could someone post a picture of it please, it's kind of hard to do that on mobile) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
