Revision as of 08:30, 30 May 2017

There is a recurring (but often silent) debate in Australia about our flag.

I am of the opinion it's pretty bad, and we should have a new one.

2017

2017 proposal

In my earlier design and writeup, I'd cited @ErikVeland's design: https://twitter.com/ErikVeland/status/448989303117344768 which is itself a simplification of the "Blaxland" flag (http://theconversation.com/a-proposal-for-a-new-mature-australian-flag-24714 and https://storify.com/sbsnews/australian-flag-redesign/elements/425bae536ec035d32591f22e ) My 2017 design takes Erik Veland's design, and brings it to the same proportions as our current flag, which gives room to then reverse the boomerang so it aims "right", and then the embedded Aboriginal flag is retained in a right-way-up form.

Design Elements

• The golden sun is centered on the center of the former union jack.
• The southern cross stars remain in their original positions and sizes (inner and outer diameter unchanged)
• The southern cross stars change numbers of points to match the Victorian and NT flags. (5,6,7,7,8 points, rather than 5,7,7,7,7 in the current Aus Flag)
  • This provides a link to the original pre-Federation flag design, which had stars of 5,6,7,8,9 points
  • Provides a link to the the current flag with Commonwealth star of 7 points
  • Provides a link to the Eureka Stockade flag of 8 point stars.

2014

2014 proposal

This is my 2014 flag design idea. I'd not even go so far as to say it's a proposal, but I hope it gets people thinking. Taking a layout cue from the NT and ACT flags, the left third is a solid base with the southern cross. I've chosen a black base, with the original (and Victorian and NT state) southern cross. (This is identical to the NT flag). To the right, a blue field has a yellow arc above, and red below. The top is to be read as the sun, and red as uluru. They are shaped appropriately. You can imagine the white band between red and blue as a heat-haze if you like, but really it's just to separate the blue and red from touching (which would be bad design karma :) - it also means the flag includes colours from both our current and aboriginal flags.

Sketches prior to final design

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Variants on the design

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  white border to sun matching lower white

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  white border to sun matching sun

State Flags

I'd like to mock up some state flag designs also, inspired by a US state flag redesign project I saw online (link forthcoming), and taking inspiration by the NT and ACT territory flags

New South Wales

== Victoria

Queensland

Tasmania

South Australia

Western Australia

Northern Territory

ACT

External links and discussions

This thread has some good designs: https://storify.com/sbsnews/australian-flag-redesign/elements/425bae536ec035d32591f22e

See also:

• http://thereef.org.au/flag
• http://ausflag.com.au/

The 2014 facebook thread from which the above sketches and design came from:

• https://www.facebook.com/nemothorx/posts/10152288637443216

The 2016 facebook thread about flags:

• https://www.facebook.com/nemothorx/posts/10153920439623216

The 2017 facebook thread about flags:

• https://web.facebook.com/nemothorx/posts/10155423198983216