Minnesota’s new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star against a dark blue background shaped like the state, with a solid light blue field at the right, a special commission decided Tuesday as it picked a replacement for an older design that many Native Americans considered offensive.
The State Emblems Redesign Commission chose the final version on an 11-1 vote after finalizing a new state seal that depicts a loon, the state bird. Unless the Legislature rejects them, the new flag and seal will automatically become official April 1, 2024, when Minnesota observes Statehood Day.
The star echoes Minnesota’s state motto of “Star of the North.” The commission’s chairman, Luis Fitch, said that to him, the light blue represents the Mississippi River, “the most important river in the United States,” pointing to the North Star. But he acknowledged it could mean other things to other people. Symmetry and simplicity won out over other versions, including ones that included a green stripe for the state’s agricultural heritage.
We’ll be trying to get our hands on a nice flag with the original design#1953 on it to fly outside our house. This one is fine I guess, but it stings with what could have been.
Seems to be that Minnesota was better off with its previous flag.
You forgot this: /s
B2 - Blue, white, green, with the same star - should have won, imo. But I don’t live in the state, so my opinion is irrelevant.
This is a great choice. That flag is probably now the best one in the Union.
In my opinion Mew Mexico and Arizona are both better. I hope this encourages more states that are just “blue field with state seal” to make better flags. New York really needs help 😅
Colorado’s is clearly better. Definitely the most recognizable.
Yep. Here in Oregon everyone just flies the Cascadian flag
Except for the southern part of the state which is all about the State of Jefferson flag
I had not heard of the State of Jefferson before. Wow, just wow. I’m really surprised how old the proposal is.
Our flag should just be the back on both sides.
And it should be a platypus instead of a beaver.
I was just thinking that!
Colorado has a C on it!
Ohio’s is the only one not shaped like a rectangle, therefore it is the best.
Alaska is pretty good, and it’s designed by a 14 year old.
Can Florida please do this too!? 😔
But definitely don’t open it up to public consultation. Because Florida
The new flag is badass!
It’s worse than the original design with the white/green/blue tri-colour on the right.
But still a big improvement.
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I like how easy on the eyes it is.
It’s actually pleasant to look at while not demanding your attention.
Solid flag.
Big day for !vexillology@lemmy.world
As a Texan, I approve of this design.
I like it fine, and I bet you could incorporate those design elements into a lot of cool merch, which is a nice rule-of-thumb for useful flags.
Cool flag. I like the solid light blue over the stripes that were an option, K.I.S.S…
Feel like with that simplified they could have done something with color a little more interesting than the dark blue to really emphasize the shape of that dark blue region but if you can’t give this a 10/10 your standards are too high.
I liked the tri-color design, but this one is good too, like you said simplicity is best. The dark blue in the K shape is shaped like the state, so the solid color fits.
CPG Grey will be so excited.
This is the only reason I clicked on this post as I reckonized this flag from his video.
We need another “breaking flag news” update asap.
He provided an update, but last time I checked it was behind a members only paywall.
The new one suffers from aluminimalism whereas the old one looks like something my mom would stick to the fridge with magnets to show how proud she was of my work in fifth grade that I spent all Thanksgiving afternoon working on by myself.
They’ll be changing it again within a few election cycles, this looks terrible.
You’re nuts. That flag is a banger.
Nah, its styled in the generic internet vexilogical circlejerk style and will look dated as soon as the hivemind moves on to the next current thing.
Too bad they didn’t go with the Polaris Tri-color. I agree with Grey that it was the best of the color variations.
I like that they went with the simplified “K” shape for Minnesota (the reverse triangle is really clever visually) but I did also like the more colorful version better. Just a little too plain now for me.
I liked this choice. The tri-color seemed a little busy to me.
I agree. I do like the tri color and would have been happy with it, but there’s a quote from whom I cannot remember that essentially is “flag design is finding the perfect flag and then dialing it down a notch”. And to that end, I think it succeeds wonderfully.
It’s modern but classic. Detailed but not busy. Inclusive but not all-encompassing. It’s pretty amazing.
I am glad they changed the star design; I think the new one is much better.
My only gripe with the alterations of the submitted design is the star shape change.
I loved the big points in the cardinal directions with smaller points in between. I dislike this eight-pointed star.
They were both good, but I think they made the more-refined “high-brow” decision by going with fewer colors.
I’m actually jealous of this flag. Only downside is it’s kind of hard to see against the blue sky, lol.
I think the 2 tones of blue make it look more like a basic corporate design than “high-brow”
Do you like places with stickers everywhere?
Not particularly, but I’m also not bothered by the presence of more than one color.
I would have sworn my eternal allegiance to the Polaris Tri-Color. This one is nice, especially for a state flag, but not inspiring.
I recently finished watching that video and NGL the tricolor with less toned colors looked pretty beautiful to me.
Tricolor was better. 120%.
