Thank you for everyone who has voted for
That Wacky Redhead in the
Continuing Cold War category! Thanks to you, TWR has now received 100 votes there! Also, the timeline continues to lead in the
Continuing Character poll! That Wacky Redhead herself is immensely flattered, as am I
The polls close tomorrow, but every last vote counts, so please cast your ballot if you haven't done so already. I'm grateful for every vote I've received, and appreciate every last one which has yet to come in!
It's a good striking flag but I imagine it would cause a kerfuffle in Africa, India et al because of how explicitly Union Jack-inspired it is. The red-white-blue roundel design, as you say, is shared by the UK and all the former 'white dominions' (and before WW2, by the USA as well!) but not in other Commonwealth countries where the red, white and blue is associated with the Empire/colonial period. That may, of course, simply say something about how differently the Commonwealth is viewed in TTL.
Well, unfortunately, it does seem as though a consensus has emerged on that front - however, I am gratified that you all appreciated the aesthetics of the original design. We've decided to bow to popular demand, because the last thing any socially-conscious post-colonial organization would ever want to do is offend
anyone.
Something like these might work better for not pissing off Commonwealth leaders who started out as anti-colonial fighters; to clarify I think your design looks better, I just think it might be too controversial.
We decided against the two-colour design because it turns the negative space of the white/gold circle into
positive space, and the radiating globe into negative space.
Well I think yours looks
better--I really like how it subtly evokes the Union Jack--I'm just thinking of the RL considerations that mean that a lot of real life flags look worse than the ones we create on here
Something like a Commonwealth flag is generally going to be designed by committee, and we all know what that means.
One gentle reminder, and I
do know what you meant to say here, but you want to avoid pronoun trouble -
e of pi co-designed it, not Lindseyman
The number of stars on the EU flag is a good example of that. The flag was originally adopted by the Council of Europe, which at that time had fifteen members (including Saarland as a separate member). The original design had fifteen stars - one for each member country. However, West Germany objected to that, as it implied that Saarland was an independent country. Similarly, France objected to having fourteen stars on the flag as it implied that Saarland couldn't be independant. As thirteen stars was considered unlucky, they finally compromised on twelve.
Yes, we encountered that scintillating tidbit as we were devising the Commonwealth flag. It's rather... typical, isn't it?
The compass points could be similar to NATO. (Hmmmm...could Britain be thinking of getting out?)
Britain is definitely
not withdrawing from NATO, under any circumstances. They aren't
France, after all!
While I love that Commonwealth Flag I have to agree with Thande that they'll not go with it on the basis that it is too British for India etal.
Perhaps a variation with gold* globe and points on blue?
As previously mentioned, we did test the logo without the white circle, but it looked more like a bank (much like the OTL logo does) instead of a supranational organization.
However, we did end up using gold/yellow, as I will demonstrate to all of you now (thanks again to
nixonshead for the colour tweaking)...
We mulled over this one for a while, until coming up with something we accepted, if not loved (as we did the original red version). What do you all think?
