Flag Thread V
Armenia (Var. 1)
Armenia (Var. 2)
I haven't posted many flags over the past month, but here I wanted to post one I designed a few days ago.
I really like Armenia's coat of arms...no not just because it has Mount Ararat on it, but just because it combines so much of the state's ancient and more recent history with an amazing aesthetic that feels distinctly somewhere between an Asian and European Style. I also like the Armenian Tricolor flag, but I feel like it can be a bit dull at times as well. So, I redesigned the flag with the colors of it's coat of arms, and it's beautiful coat of arms in the middle: A cross, to represent Armenia's 1721 years of Christianity: Arguably, the state was the first one to adopt Christianity as it's official religion (it competes with Ethiopia for this title). I also took the arrangment of colors from the coat of arms, added that in, and then added a bit of white for contrast (just like it is used in the coat of arms).
Sorry for the unfortunate timing. I will probably design an Azerbaijan flag at some point as well. Also, to Armenians, Armenia is known as "Hayastan."
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My take on an West Pacific Treaty Organization /Asian NATO flag.
The White stands for the US/NATO allies in North America and Europe. Red for Japan and Korea, Blue for the pacific ocean and the global seas & green is for Australasia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia and the Malay Archipelago including the Philippines.
The White stands for the US/NATO allies in North America and Europe. Red for Japan and Korea, Blue for the pacific ocean and the global seas & green is for Australasia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia and the Malay Archipelago including the Philippines.
Learn to use this: https://tennessine.co.uk/flags/
It's an amazing tool meant specifically for flag-making, and it's the one I've always used for my flags.
As for flag-prompts....how about something to do with Afghanistan?
You could have a look in the requests thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...oats-of-arms-heraldry-here-ii.480328/page-208
Even if you don't feel ready to do any of them, you might get some ideas.
I love Armenian. It is such an underrated and underappreciated nation and culture, which in contemporary history, has suffered greatly.
It's definitely a interesting design and I feel is both distinct and tricolor is I feel fitting.
I've been recently consumed with ideas for a new flag series called A Lighter Shade of Black that would serve as a Separated at Birth-style take on Green Antarctica 😂 Here are my initial notes, I have no idea when I'll actually start working on it. I'll probably break it up thusly:
- First Clash of Civilizations
- Second Clash of Civilizations
- Colder War
Yessir 😂 I'm tooling around with different names for the sections, it would be funny if the Clashes were called "the Cold Wars", then it's just a matter of figuring out a name for the long lull
In all serious it won't be that bad. Aside from eliminating some unlikely parallelism in the 20th century it'll build up into a gradual set of positive changes for the Tsalal. There's a point made in the original thread that hard times breed horrors and that those horrors can become institutionalized and reproduce themselves but that this process isn't eternal or inevitable. Contrary to the fears of the time the Dread Calm (Cold War analogue) won't culminate in an orgy of nuclear holocaust but rather a fever breaking among the Tsalal after 20,000 years. It'll also allow me to indulge in my perennial love of alternate ideologies, since a variant of the Cold Islands system will be gradually adapted to the European context starting in the 1880s, catching on in Britain in its mature form in the next century.
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Excellent concept. Makes me wonder what other flags have crowns on them and what would happen if they became republics.
I'm sorry but it's barely imaginative, you just glued the two flags together
This might be the best idea for a flag concept I've seen in quite a while. Excellent job!