Flag Thread III

[Brdman]

And You wanna know what's REALLY weird? On Flag Thread II, Alternatehistorybuff5341 reports that he ALSO had a dream about a flag!!

It's here at: http://www.alternatehistory.com/disc...3221&page=134:)

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Azure Angel

I was really lost as to what to do with it. I couldn't find any symbolism of the region that would do well with a flag, but it didn't seem right making something super simple after coming from a state with a beautiful flag.

How about something like this? Keeps the symbolism, but I think looks cleaner? I also like keeping the original colors of the "sky" but if you want to change to the other one, that'd be easy too.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Brdman

And You wanna know what's REALLY weird? On Flag Thread II, Alternatehistorybuff5341 reports that he ALSO had a dream about a flag!!

It's here at: http://www.alternatehistory.com/disc...3221&page=134:)

That's... a nice flag. I like the Ronald McDonald joke.

[Azure Angel]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

How about something like this? Keeps the symbolism, but I think looks cleaner? I also like keeping the original colors of the "sky" but if you want to change to the other one, that'd be easy too.

That might work. If only there was a reference for a state basing their flag off another...

[Marc Pasquin]

Originally Posted by Azure Angel

I'm doing production design for a movie about the collapse of north america, and I was looking for feedback on the current flags I've created. More will come as the story develops.

The flag of Socal, after Southern California at the 35° 47′ 28″ north latitude becomes a state. The tricolour is that of the flag of L.A. minus the seal. Ursa Minor represents the newness of the state, and recalls the bear flag republic. The star is also a representation of it's acceptance into the union. Northern California remains "California".

baby bear looks a bit too cutsy to me for something meant to represent a nation that wants to be taken seriously.

Originally Posted by Azure Angel

Flag of Baja Arizona, formed the same time as Socal. The colours are the most common when I did research on the OTL movement. The blue line is the Gila River. the proposed northern border of the state. The star and rays are reminiscent of it's union with Arizona.
Alternate version of Baja Arizona.

Way too garish. Usualy flag designs include (not counting COA or sceal) 4 colours top and you should in my mind follow the guideline of "don't use 4 if you can use 3 and don't use 3 if you can use 2". Also, 3 similar colours against one another not separated by metal would make the middle one hard to see at a distance. Finaly, I think just a regular ondulating pattern would still represent the river but would be more estheticaly pleasing.

Originally Posted by Azure Angel

Flag of the Federal Republic of Arizona. The name and colours come from Arizona's power during the civil war. The blue represents the west coast, the 4 gold stripes represent 4 states coming together into the Union star (think Australia), and from there form 1 nation represented by the large gold stripe. Red represents the bravery and sacrifice of the soldiers during the war for independence.

looks good enough but the contrast isn't very good between the star and the red bands, maybe a fimibriation would help.

Originally Posted by Azure Angel

The flag of the Federation of Columbus. The 15 stripes represent the 15 provinces that make up the federation. The black stripes represents the ever present threat of war. The red represents the sacrifice to keep the federation alive. The white represents the promis of peace. The triangle represent the government's promise to overcome war and death to maintain peace. The eagle is the party symbol of the government.

looks ominous, I like it.

Originally Posted by Azure Angel

Flag of an unknown kingdom in central US/Canada. No meaning assigned to the flag yet.

looks a bit unbalanced to me.

Originally Posted by Azure Angel

Flag of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
Alt flag of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland

Although I get the idea behind the design, Having a insescutcheon in the middle makes it look like scotland has a claim over it. I think it could do without or maybe replace it with the arms of the new country. Another approach would be to use the red and gold colours to add a

Originally Posted by Azure Angel

Flag of the republic of Bob. (A joke on our producer acting like a dictator.)

Your director looks like Groucho Marx ?

[Elessar267]

I got fed up when I saw on another site, yet again, another Flag of Earth which is essentially a "United States of Earth" flag, so I went in a totally different direction. Is it particularly creative? No. But making it made me feel far less annoyed about the whole "United States of Earth" thing, so yeah.

[deathgod]

Originally Posted by Elessar267

I got fed up when I saw on another site, yet again, another Flag of Earth which is essentially a "United States of Earth" flag, so I went in a totally different direction. Is it particularly creative? No. But making it made me feel far less annoyed about the whole "United States of Earth" thing, so yeah.

Tehehe~~~ you've got me pleased.

[LSCatilina]

There's a request.

Nation/State : Kingdom of Three Sicilies (Tunisia being held after Norman invasion, kingdom having split between Sicily/Tunisia and Naples, and reunited)
Era : 1800's
Governement : Absolute Monarchy.

[Berus]

two concepts for the war flag of my greater Austria.

Yeah i know the eagle on the secound flag might not look that good or have the typical style of an heraldic imperial eagle... But this is on purpose, the eagle should have a rather modern stylized look, kina like the albanian eagle (although not as stylized)

this flag is actually rather old, so it looks a bit sloppy... thought that this flag might be a bit too centered on German-Austria itself, because of the red-white red crossbars, the black/yellow should represent the Habsburgs.



This warflag is based on the german war flag, it contains the colors black, gold and yellow and on the top left, the flag of Greater Austria with an iron cross. in the centre there is the eagle with two swords in the fangs.



which one do you prefer ? If you have suggestions, please tell me.

[Marc Pasquin]

Originally Posted by Berus

two concepts for the war flag of my greater Austria.

Yeah i know the eagle on the secound flag might not look that good or have the typical style of an heraldic imperial eagle... But this is on purpose, the eagle should have a rather modern stylized look, kina like the albanian eagle (although not as stylized)





which one do you prefer ? If you have suggestions, please tell me.

Why do austrians use the prussian Iron Cross ?

[Berus]

IIRC they did use that cross in WWI too... hmm do you mean the one in the secound flag right ? yeah that is maybe a bit too prussian.

[Alex Richards]

Originally Posted by Elessar267

I got fed up when I saw on another site, yet again, another Flag of Earth which is essentially a "United States of Earth" flag, so I went in a totally different direction. Is it particularly creative? No. But making it made me feel far less annoyed about the whole "United States of Earth" thing, so yeah.

Alternatively the flag of the British Extraterrestrial Dependency.

[Martin23230]

Originally Posted by Elessar267

I got fed up when I saw on another site, yet again, another Flag of Earth which is essentially a "United States of Earth" flag, so I went in a totally different direction. Is it particularly creative? No. But making it made me feel far less annoyed about the whole "United States of Earth" thing, so yeah.

I made one of the before for the Futurama in other countries thread. Compare:


Now:



Much better .

[Marc Pasquin]

Originally Posted by Berus

IIRC they did use that cross in WWI too... hmm do you mean the one in the secound flag right ? yeah that is maybe a bit too prussian.

They did use it on their planes but never on any of the flags and even in the former case, it was less a *national* symbol and more a quickly adopted mean of not being shot down by your allies. To have it taking pride of place in the center of a greater austria's flag would just be odd. I think you'd be better with a double headed eagle in its place.

And yes, unless the country in this ATL is highly influenced by germany, using the imperial battle flag might not be the best idea.

Is there a in-story reason why they didn't keep using the red-white-red or one of its variant ?

[Berus]

the thing is, i dont want to keep the red-white-red version because thats already the flag of German-Austria in my timeline.

also the cross is not meant as national symbol, the national symbol is still the eagle, just thought of adding the iron cross to the war flag, also the iron cross was used since the wars with napoleon in A-H, so it was a military symbol of them aswell.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by PaladinOfTheSun

Flag of the Voresh Grand Duchy, the government of Vor Prime from Union Era 1 to Union Era 766. Reestablished in Union Era 795.

You suffered the fate of posting at the end of a page, but going back and seeing this I just want to say that's a very nice flag.

[The Professor]

If thou ha'n't vocated thine ensign, anon

[Krall]

Originally Posted by Brdman

And You wanna know what's REALLY weird? On Flag Thread II, Alternatehistorybuff5341 reports that he ALSO had a dream about a flag!!

It's here at: http://www.alternatehistory.com/disc...3221&page=134:)

I had a dream about a flag once too, but it was a flag I'd already made. However, under the flag was the word "Innucinsar", or something similar, which has now become the name of the country said flag (and its later derivatives) was used for!

[LSCatilina]

Originally Posted by LSCatilina

There's a request.

Nation/State : Kingdom of Three Sicilies (Tunisia being held after Norman invasion, kingdom having split between Sicily/Tunisia and Naples, and reunited)
Era : 1800's
Governement : Absolute Monarchy.

*Cough*

Nobody?

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by LSCatilina

*Cough*

Nobody?

Well, The Professor had a good set...