Colour blind or on LSD? First crowd-sourced flag designs go online
The $26 million flag consideration process gets underway.
The government's Flag Consideration Panel, which includes Rod Drury and Julie Christie, has asked people to upload flag designs.
You can view an online gallery of the latest efforts here.
Some are intriguing. Others make you wonder what portion of the public is colour blind or on LSD.
Certainly, those who think the $26 million flag consideration process is a waste of time will find a lot of grist for the mill.
I've uploaded my own design. So far it’s yet to appear on the site (heck, I'm no Richard Aslett), so here it is:
It's simple and monumental, and draws on motifs already used to represent NZ. Plus, as we all know, black is slimming.
And there's this variant:
For the record, I would like NZ to follow in Canada's footsteps and cut the apron strings and create a striking flag of its own. But oh boy, the current consideration process, including the meaningless feel-good blather of www.standfor.co.nz, doesn't half make it easy for opponents to mock.
The Flag Consideration Panel must choose a shortlist of four possible flag designs ahead of two postal referenda.
The first, on November 20 to December 11 this year, will ask voters to rank the four alternative flags selected by the Flag Consideration Panel from most to least-preferred.
The second, on March 3 to March 24 2016, will ask voters to choose between the current New Zealand flag and the preferred alternative design selected in the first referendum. The results of both referendums are binding.
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Colour blind or on LSD? First crowd-sourced flag designs go online
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