Shitty Flag Thread - "Lets add a Palm-Tree riding a horse on our city flag!"


Oof, did you hear about the "proposed" Detroit flag? Some jackass with a brand new Graphic Design (I think I can't find the program any more) degree thought that the city needed a new flag that looked more like an app icon, be put on merch, and well just is an uninspired rip off, of one of the finalists of the New Zeland 2015 flag referendum.
 

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Oof, did you hear about the "proposed" Detroit flag? Some jackass with a brand new Graphic Design (I think I can't find the program any more) degree thought that the city needed a new flag that looked more like an app icon, be put on merch, and well just is an uninspired rip off, of one of the finalists of the New Zeland 2015 flag referendum.

Detroits flag just needs a few Abandoned buildings and Pistols in the corners
 
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On the "Tir Eoghain" you can See White Around it meaning they didnt even fucking Crop it Correctly.
Thankfully our Armagh flags are much nicer, not mention that Armagh is superior to Tyrone anyway.;)
 
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Why is it that autists like Chris and @Libyan insist on Capitalizing random words in the Middle of every Sentance? Is it part of the autist genetic code or something?
Anyway the “redesigned” pride flag that’s supposed to be extra woke n intersectional looks like shit. Literally, it looks like there’s a big smear of crap on it.
 
The current Ottawa flag is reminiscent of the background on a laundry detergent box from the 1970s.

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It's at least better than the 1987 to 2000 flag which had the coat of arms on a headache-inducing purple, red, and blue background. It would have been infinitely better if they'd just have used the coat of arms on a single color background. The tricolor background by itself was the Ottawa flag from 1900 to 1987.

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The current Ottawa flag is reminiscent of the background on a laundry detergent box from the 1970s.

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It's at least better than the 1987 to 2000 flag which had the coat of arms on a headache-inducing purple, red, and blue background. It would have been infinitely better if they'd just have used the coat of arms on a single color background. The tricolor background by itself was the Ottawa flag from 1900 to 1987.

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Ottawa atleast doesnt use Text or some shitty Hard to draw Coat of Arms. its simple.
 
IIRC the reason why purple is barely (if ever) used as a national flag/state flag/whatever colour is because until like the 1900s purple dye was obscenely expensive to produce (due to it being entirely sourced from a rare sea snail in lebanon. Like, rare enough that the average monarch would be lucky if he could get a purple shirt or some shit, which is also why it has long been seen as the "royal" colour. Therefore NOBODY wanted to waste such a precious comodity on the hundreds of thousands of flags the average nation needed until mauve was discovered and synthesised in the 19th century, and a tiny number of countries toyed around with adding purple to flags.

This means that while there are thousands of years of experience with colour coordination in flags with every other colour of the rainbow, purple was (and is) a novel concept in flag design that few countries have ever really played around with enough to come up with a good design
 
Ottawa atleast doesnt use Text or some shitty Hard to draw Coat of Arms. its simple.

The current Ottawa flag is simple in a way but it'd be complicated to draw precisely without serious drafting tools and precise measurements since there are no straight lines in that slightly spiralling O with the stretched-out maple leaf that's split into three.
 
Ottawa atleast doesnt use Text or some shitty Hard to draw Coat of Arms. its simple.

Yes. Simplicity is key in design. However, this looks more like a business logo.
 
Tbh I never liked the flag of my home province of B.C, specifically the top part where they had to Shorten and stretch the union jack to make it awkwardly fit within a standard flag dimension.

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Although I'm not usually one for erasing history, I'd prefer if they incorporated the Blue and Green tricolour of the Cascadian flag. Maybe replace the tree with the sun and incorporate the waves somehow? I dunno, I just think there are plenty of designs that would look much better.

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