Vote for the new New Zealand flag

Henry Irving

One of these flags will win a vote to go head to head with the current flag for the right to be the new New Zealand flag.

https://www.govt.nz/browse/engaging-with-government/the-nz-flag-your-chance-to-decide/

Friend Or Defoe

Class! Have you got a link?

Henry Irving

Friend Or Defoe said:

Class! Have you got a link?

Yes,

Also got a flag from @superchrissypowell for some reason

Leuth

Advertising a vote that we can't participate in? Outright provocation!

The black and white fern is the best there by a zillion miles

ForeverAddickted

Dunno... Quite like the first one and the fourth one

I like how they've done images of the flag against those of other nations and on merchandise

Halix

They are all pretty poor, a couple look like what you would see flying outside a garden centre, or camping equipment exhibition.

Raith_C_Chattonell

My favourite didn't make it to the final selection.

Some alternative entries here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/11793864/New-Zealands-new-flag-Some-of-the-weird-and-wonderful-designs-in-pictures.html?frame=3403133&amgpage=1

stonemuse

First one looks good

Brendan_O_Connell

If I was a kiwi I'd go for number 1.

Then again if I was a Kiwi I'd also be married to my sister.

SpicedAddick

I like the one that looks like a piggy's tail.

Leuth

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

My favourite didn't make it to the final selection.

Some alternative entries here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/11793864/New-Zealands-new-flag-Some-of-the-weird-and-wonderful-designs-in-pictures.html?frame=3403133&amgpage=1

The laser one makes me lose it every time

ForeverAddickted

Why are they replacing the flag anyway?

Or is it just an attempt from the current leader to pointlessly stamp their mark on their country's History?

DRAddick

They're going to have a vote next year to decide whether there going to change it at all.

flyingkiwiDK

The NZ Government has wasted so much of the taxpayers money on this. Absolute joke!

ForeverAddickted

DRAddick said:

They're going to have a vote next year to decide whether there going to change it at all.

So if they decide not to change it at all... these designs were a complete waste of time?

cfgs

Think they should just go for a black flag with the silver fern and the southern cross on it. Simple really but then so are they.

cafcdave123

ForeverAddickted said:

DRAddick said:

They're going to have a vote next year to decide whether there going to change it at all.

So if they decide not to change it at all... these designs were a complete waste of time?

And money

MrOneLung

I think any flag design should be able to easily be drawn in a recognisable form by a 10 year old.

ShootersHillGuru

First and last look classy.,

Algarveaddick

Five if they have to change.

I am guessing like the British government responding the mouthy minority in Scotland, the government of NZ are responding to pressure from anti-monarchists in their country with a referendum? Perhaps the promise of it was a vote winner in certain areas last time they went to the polls?

ForeverAddickted

MrOneLung said:

I think any flag design should be able to easily be drawn in a recognisable form by a 10 year old.

Like Bhutan?



Libya used to have the easiest flag to draw...

C_A_F_C

The first one,

sam3110

Black flag, silver fern and southern cross on it would be the best. So number 1 but in the colours of 4

ForeverAddickted

Looking at them again... I'd like No.4 if it was in the same colour yet with addition of the Southern Cross on it (Also in B&W)

sm

Wot no sheep!

sm

Or is that Australia .......or Wales?

IA

Leuth said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

My favourite didn't make it to the final selection.

Some alternative entries here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/11793864/New-Zealands-new-flag-Some-of-the-weird-and-wonderful-designs-in-pictures.html?frame=3403133&amgpage=1

The laser one makes me lose it every time

How did this not make the final list? It clearly projects a strong image of New Zealand.

Henry Irving

And now a flag from @J BLOCK

never realised it was such a sensitive subject : - )

The Red Robin

Number one or four for me.

soapy_jones

First or last one

jimmymelrose

I think number one. It's better than four or five because it has all the colours included. The red, white and blue to represent the country's heritage and connection to the UK, and the black as the 'new colour' of New Zealand. No 2 has all these but the fern leaf design is just so much better.
The only thing missing for me is perhaps the Kiwi (bird) or a Kaori tree.
If I'd designed a flag to symbolise what New Zealand means to me it would have included a 1972 Hillman Hunter, a cow's pelvis, a scree slope, midges and killer kiwi fruit.