And then there were five...
Sep. 25th, 2015 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birguslatroFlag choices, that is, the 'Red Peak' flag being added to the NZ new flag list...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/new-zealands-flag-referendum-fifth-option-to-be-added-after-public-pressure
(A law-change was rushed through under urgency to make this possible.)
At least this new one's there by some sort of popular demand for it, unlike having the flag vote in the first case.
It's been suggested it's a bit like a Nazi design, but this is a much better match! Given that was the original 'Industrial Design Council of Australia' logo, you have to wonder if the Red Peak designer had a memory lapse not shared by their subconscious.
The problem I have with the Red Peak flag, is if you asked a New Zealander who knew nothing of the flag debate to choose the design among these five which was least representative of NZ, Red Peak would be it. A design which has to be explained, is a failed design.
One argument against a flag change is that the current one is the flag NZer's fought and died under. That may be so, but it's the fern that many of those fallen are buried under...
pic 1, pic 2, pic 3.
This new flag hasn't changed the choice I made here....
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/new-zealands-flag-referendum-fifth-option-to-be-added-after-public-pressure
(A law-change was rushed through under urgency to make this possible.)
At least this new one's there by some sort of popular demand for it, unlike having the flag vote in the first case.
It's been suggested it's a bit like a Nazi design, but this is a much better match! Given that was the original 'Industrial Design Council of Australia' logo, you have to wonder if the Red Peak designer had a memory lapse not shared by their subconscious.
The problem I have with the Red Peak flag, is if you asked a New Zealander who knew nothing of the flag debate to choose the design among these five which was least representative of NZ, Red Peak would be it. A design which has to be explained, is a failed design.
One argument against a flag change is that the current one is the flag NZer's fought and died under. That may be so, but it's the fern that many of those fallen are buried under...
pic 1, pic 2, pic 3.
This new flag hasn't changed the choice I made here....