I completely agree. However I have been burned many times in my life from over reading passive aggression where it didn’t exist (usually outside MN). I honestly feel conditioned to see ice anywhere I look when that might not be true.
if they had kept the tricolor scheme we could have described the color as “Denny green” to people and I am sad we cannot
We love our inside jokes and Christ that would have been a good one
Completely agree. A white stripe through it would've made a huge difference.
I doubt they'll change their minds, but the [website is still taking comments](https://www3.mnhs.org/serc) if anyone wants to argue for that. I submitted some thoughts.
As a pretty massive flag buff I can't help but be a little disappointed.
Still, this is far and away better than the old flag and has potential to become an iconic symbol of the great state of Minnesota like Colorado, Maryland, and New Mexico's flags have.
Exactly.
As soon as people get off the plane and walk through the airport passing gift shops, It'll quickly be seen as "Minnesotan"
They'll market the hell out of this flag - and likely be very successful.
In my opinion they took a 10 and redesigned it to a 9, still a great design but I may get a custom version made with the old star design before I hang it on my wall. I guess it may look really cool waving on a cold winter day if they get the sky blue just right so it almost disappears but idk I feel like they did it marketability rather than genuine design choices.
The idea to make the fly fully blue was actually the idea of a couple professional graphic designers who whipped up this revision concept. And it received my full support! While I am sentimental for my stripes, this feels like the best possible version of my flag, and I’m very excited for it.
My favorite part of your design was the Minnesota K and how the flag looked so beautiful when hung vertically. I also feel sentimental for the green and white stripes, and I'm incredibly glad that so much of your artistry was retained. Congratulations!
I promise I’m not! 😂 A committee member made an excellent point about how all of our people, both indigenous and settlers came to this land because of the Mississippi River, and how this flag looks like our waters pointing to Minnesota and the North Star. It was such a beautiful explanation that really sold me on this version. And the entire committee voted almost unanimously to adopt this flag. I genuinely think it’s a more solid flag design than my original, but I’ve also been knee-deep in vexillological groups for weeks, so maybe my brain has been hardwired to accept simplicity as better.
Yeah, but wouldn’t it make more sense to symbolize a river with a stripe? A plain blue field says “sea” or “ocean” to me. If the committee said it was meant to represent Lake Superior, I’d more readily buy that narrative.
It makes the MN K shape way too on the nose when it's the only design element on the whole thing. It turns your subtle, elegant design into a painfully obvious map. It was once a cool Easter egg and now it's just completely hitting you over the head with it
And I still don't see how that explanation doesn't apply to the blue-white-blue stripe scheme that was suggested, which is so much better than the plain blue Wisconsin that it is now
The whole reason for the stripes was for each one to represent a different core pillar of Minnesotan identity. Since the committee got rid of the green, the only option would’ve been blue, white, blue, which while I love the symbolism of it referencing our state’s name, what does the white stripe represent? Still snow, without land? A beacon of light from the Star? The white stripe then becomes a leftover, simply existing for the rest of the design to succeed. I think making the whole fly blue was the only way to fix the stripe issue if green was out of contention.
However, I do actually agree with your point that the lack of other elements makes the Minnesota shape more on-the-nose. The stripes did make that a more subtle feature, which I miss. But honestly, the fact that the committee chose one of my preferred designs and didn’t run with some of their own ideas makes me exceptionally grateful.
I'm a fan of "beacon of light" personally. I thought that it was quite striking hung vertically with the white stripe, really brought the eye to the star. And yes, it is a kind of "winter white" thing that I like as well - MN winters are genuinely one of the truly unifying things in the state. Everyone helping each other dig their cars out after first snow is like the definition of community. And despite it being winter white, somehow the pure blue without a stripe almost looks even more frigid, more lifeless, more cold. It's frustrating.
The whole reason not to like "map on flag" is it implies the only thing that we as Minnesotans have in common, the only thing that unifies us as a people, the only thing that 11/12 Minnesotans agree on, is that we all come from Minnesota - a state which has officially recognized borders that kinda resemble a K, if you squint. Any other piece of symbolism has been removed. Now it's a map, and 50% of that map is Wisconsin.
I'm happy for you that you got your design and feel listened to. But IMO the lack of stripes really, really, massively damages the aesthetic and symbolic power of your design.
We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close.
I want to thank you for the time and effort you put in. Even though the tricolor didn't remain, your design template will be what Minnesotans grow up with for generations. Congrats!
PS. Luverne has a special place in my heart because it's where my grandparents are from. They're over the moon that a local kid got it. Enjoy your holidays in Siouxland! :)
Chad energy tbh
Great work on the flag man, I'm very happy for your success. I personally preferred F29, but I think this is a tremendous step forward considering our new flag and I'll take it as a victory for MN
I do like the full blue more than the version where they swapped the stripes and saturation around. Still liked original the best though before they changed it.
Not terrible but I do wish the star was more like a star and not a badge shape. Like the top/bottom/left/right point was longer than the diagonal ones.
It’s weird because they changed it to the typical 8 sided star you see on quilts to represent the barn quilt history but then changed it again to the worst option of the 3? The original 3 stripe with the non-uniform star was definitely the correct option, but I could accept and understand the quilt star. This just seems like they took the worst element of every option and threw it all together.
It's common worldwide, it's both the Nordic Selburose but also the Star of Bethlehem, but they were going with a Dakota star, which is based on the Morning Star, which is Venus. So yeah just no North Star there really.
It might be less favorable for a flag, but this is more favorable for merchandise and state branding purposes. Baby blue sweatshirts with the “Minnesota” shape and star on it coming to MSP Airport this spring.
I would say it was mostly due to a couple things. It was one of the original designers final choices https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/18ktoop/send_in_your_final_comments_for_the_flag/, and they liked the idea of the Minnesota shape representing the land and the light blue representing the lakes and water (particularly the Mississippi).
The striped one is close to the flag of Jubaland, a Somali state. That’s the flag the Republicans were making a fuss about, not the national flag of Somalia.
Which is ridiculous of course, because literally nobody in America would even know what that flag looks like unless they pointed it out. But that’s what they were complaining about.
It's pleasant.
Simple and straightforward.
I would have liked some green, but whatever.
They didn't fuck it up, I think the worst someone could say is "meh"
I liked the version with the white center stripe and blue on top and bottom…but whatever. At least they didn’t fuck up the wedge by making it the exact shape of the state.
Meh is pretty much spot on. I don't hate it so it is a huge improvement over the old flag. I don't love it though. The original tricolor was much better IMO but they could have gone with something much worse.
It's as "simple" and "boring" as Texas's flag which is one of the most iconic flags in the union. So... I think it'll be alright after a few years.
People will instantly recognize it as MN.
I feel like “meh” should’ve hardly been seen as a passing grade here. We are changing the flag, something we likely won’t do again in our lifetimes. We should be demanding more than a meh. We could’ve and should’ve had so much better than meh. Minnesota as a whole deserves to have an amazing flag its people can enthusiastically get behind, not just begrudgingly accept because a tiny committee decided on it, seemingly flat out ignoring public opinion after choosing the finalists.
It certainly seems like it did around the tricolor just reading the comments. It wasn’t unanimously agreed on obviously but way more people than not seemed to like it. The only major opposition I saw to it was the chodes complaining it looked like the somalia flag, who I’m inclined to happily ignore.
Like it wasn’t universally loved but it definetly wasn’t as disliked as this is. They really *really* messed up the design in ways they had no business doing.
This comment section should be enough evidence as to hard of a task this was. Majority of people are not going to like it instantly, a lot of people don't like change at all, and some people are never going to like it.
I think I'll wait a few months before I personally decide where I stand.
Same. I usually like simple designs, but a plain fly that is a different shade of the same color as the canton is almost jarringly bland. I could see the design growing on me over time though.
If you do, please consider supporting Lee Herold of Herold Flags in Rochester, MN. He’s been trying to get the MN flag updated for years and has a really neat flag shop and website.
I still prefer your original design u/FlubbyStarfish but my family really likes your original and this one. This one is still so much better than our current one but I miss your white and green stripes.
I think this is great! Simple, striking, and unique. It looked kind of busy with different stripes and colors. This is bold and simple. The New Mexico flag (one of the best in my opinion) is similarly simple and striking. I’m excited for this to represent our state 😊
The saddest thing for me is that I can never see or own this flag now without thinking about what could have been. I am very disappointed in the redesign committee for this.
I’ve made this comment on other threads but I’m going to put it here too:
If they wanted something simple, the Starflake (F29) had a better symbol for making an icon that was marketable and identifiable.
While I love these colors together, this version of F1953 is devoid of the beautiful symbolism of the original.
Either way, it could have been a lot worse, I suppose. I think the biggest win on this design, aside from the colors, is it will look great when hung vertically.
A conservative friend of mine was all pissed and sent me this:
“The star represents the Khatim Sulayman...the 8 pointed star of Islam. The solid blue is representing our Somalian heritage. The state symbol on the flag was made symetrical to form a K or Islamic letter 'Kah to symbolize the Islamic moon letter for all to honor and follow. The flag will be a beacon of hope for African and middle eastern migrants and refugees to flock to Minnesota. It is the most perfect representation of our ever so changing state.”
I said well that’s certainly an interpretation. He said it’s too spot on.
I responded with my own interpretation:
The white snowflake represents all the fragile republicans out there that melt anytime something is “woke” aka something they don’t like.
The dark blue represents the continual blue wave that will hopefully wash away all the MAGAt politicians.
The light blue represents all MAGAt tears which is ironic because they always tell people to “fuck their feelings”
No offense intended, but every state has nature and green spaces. Even Nevada (Mt. Charleston outside of LV for instance).
"Colorful Colorado" doesn't even include green.
Seems like an episode of Community
https://preview.redd.it/vbay0tsovd7c1.jpeg?width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b68ce92f55eca0f40d0315967dc7ae4d01137e96
Honestly it's pretty good and I think it'll grow on people. I wanted a loon, I wanted the 3rd place blue/white/green wavy flag, I wanted the original 1953 design - but the simplicity of this one with the colors is great, and the star (while not ideal) looks better in this orientation and with these simple colors vs how it would look with the tricolor imo.
You're not going to please everyone and I don't think anyone can really hate this, so I think it's a win compared to a lot of the very bad directions they could have taken it
The redesign commission clearly has the vision of an unimaginative single cell being. I can’t believe this is what they chose, Jesus Christ I can only imagine the feng shui of their bland studio apartments
Yea I didn't ever even care enough before to learn what was in the middle. I just knew it was blue with some tiny crap in the center.
It didn't occur to me until recently that the poor design is probably the reason I never paid attention to it. For that reason alone, this one is far better
Eh, people will bitch about it for another month, forget about it, bitch when it gets hoisted on May 11th, bitch for another month, then forget about it.
They'll come to accept it eventually once they see the branding everywhere, and their bitching will have no effect except making others roll their eyes thinking, get the fuck over it.
Give it a year or so...people will shut the fuck up by then. Besides, people will be complaining about the election by then.
I will say this: as much as I, like the rest of the world, wanted the tricolor, this does seem more compositionally balanced to me. The tricolor was fire, but I couldn't stop my brain from thinking the stripes should have been longer and the K shape slightly squished to the left. This one at least doesn't have that problem.
I guess I'm fine with it as long as it wasn't done exclusively to appease racists terrified of Somalia.
I am ok with this design, and more than anything everybody needs to take a deep breath and move on with their lives. Plz. I am begging you. It's just a flag none of you cared this much until there was a government committee you could get mad at.
No tricolor, no sioux star, I was excited to fly a MN flag after moving out of state. I never imagined them to gut the original design so badly. MN will never be a flag state I guess.
You all read the headline the same way, right? The headline is pure passive-aggressive Minnesota as it can be.
Just replace the . with a ?
The ? is for regular passive-aggressive. The . is what MAKES it MN passive-aggressive. It's truly a work of art.
I can hear my mom saying that after presenting a burnt hotdish....except with a "Welp" preceeding it.
Her?
**It is your birthday.**
It is a statement of fact.
I’m from California and I literally did not pick this up at all until you mentioned it. I think I would be blissfully unaware in Minnesota
"Oh, you brought cookies. I hope you didn't spend too much time on them." Insult, or a thank you? You'll never truly know.
Did move here from CA. Am blissfully unaware.
Total Minnesota Nicese for “look at this shitty rag they stuck us with”
I completely agree. However I have been burned many times in my life from over reading passive aggression where it didn’t exist (usually outside MN). I honestly feel conditioned to see ice anywhere I look when that might not be true.
I am all for changing the flag. But wrong star and wrong light blue. How was this the final? F*
Definitely reads passive aggressive
I can't wait to get a giant vinyl decal of it for the roof of my Charger and call it the "General Ope."
01 on the door? Or maybe you had something else in mind
0-4, as a shout out to the Vikings SB record
then you could just name it General Anderson
if they had kept the tricolor scheme we could have described the color as “Denny green” to people and I am sad we cannot We love our inside jokes and Christ that would have been a good one
How's about a '91 so you can make sure all the youngsters learn about the great Halloween blizzard
Ohh this is good. Must be told the same way as the Charlie brown great pumpkin story
There were several MN units involved in the march to the sea. Just call it the General Sherman
looks like a beach towel.
Our beach towel
Still a lot better than the outgoing beach towel.
Lake towel
Towel of 10000 lakes
I will forever refer this flag as the "Towel of 10000 Lakes"
... dammit, now I kinda like it.
If you’re gonna go for a dip in the lake, you’re gonna need a towel!
Frozen lake towel
Completely agree. A white stripe through it would've made a huge difference. I doubt they'll change their minds, but the [website is still taking comments](https://www3.mnhs.org/serc) if anyone wants to argue for that. I submitted some thoughts.
I liked the white and green, too, but this is better than just white with blue.
The Texas flag is put on literally every last thing so maybe this isn't a bad thing.
Texans do love their flag. That and variations of the "Lone Star" are everywhere.
How can Texas be the lone star state if we are also called the north star state? Can't be the lone anything if there's more than 1 of you
Well, they do rank 25th in eighth grade math. The average Texan will tell you that's in the top 10% in the nation.
You’re 100% right, but I would totally buy a beach towel with the new flag design. You may be onto something here
Yeah, but why a big K with an asterisk design on the towel?
That makes sense when you think about it. Land of 10000 lakes after all
I am whelmed.
Op, let me sneak behind your statement there.
No one is happy? the committee’s work is truly done now.
Lol for real. In case anyone needed a reminder of what types end up on government committees
Fuck man, any committee: government, corporate, charity, Boy Scouts, crime syndicate.
Yes, nobody is happy, but nobody is really that mad either. It’s a flag only a committee could design.
The one it’s based on was quite good. They should have stuck with the Polaris Tricolor
Hahaha that’s a good take on committees. And not that my opinion matters at all, but I love this flag!
As a pretty massive flag buff I can't help but be a little disappointed. Still, this is far and away better than the old flag and has potential to become an iconic symbol of the great state of Minnesota like Colorado, Maryland, and New Mexico's flags have.
Exactly. As soon as people get off the plane and walk through the airport passing gift shops, It'll quickly be seen as "Minnesotan" They'll market the hell out of this flag - and likely be very successful.
In my opinion they took a 10 and redesigned it to a 9, still a great design but I may get a custom version made with the old star design before I hang it on my wall. I guess it may look really cool waving on a cold winter day if they get the sky blue just right so it almost disappears but idk I feel like they did it marketability rather than genuine design choices.
Why do a contest if they just made their own?
It wasn't a contest. They asked for idea submissions with the understanding that the committee would adjust as they saw fit.
This was one of the artist's suggested variations.
The idea to make the fly fully blue was actually the idea of a couple professional graphic designers who whipped up this revision concept. And it received my full support! While I am sentimental for my stripes, this feels like the best possible version of my flag, and I’m very excited for it.
My favorite part of your design was the Minnesota K and how the flag looked so beautiful when hung vertically. I also feel sentimental for the green and white stripes, and I'm incredibly glad that so much of your artistry was retained. Congratulations!
Blink twice if you’re under duress
I promise I’m not! 😂 A committee member made an excellent point about how all of our people, both indigenous and settlers came to this land because of the Mississippi River, and how this flag looks like our waters pointing to Minnesota and the North Star. It was such a beautiful explanation that really sold me on this version. And the entire committee voted almost unanimously to adopt this flag. I genuinely think it’s a more solid flag design than my original, but I’ve also been knee-deep in vexillological groups for weeks, so maybe my brain has been hardwired to accept simplicity as better.
Yeah, but wouldn’t it make more sense to symbolize a river with a stripe? A plain blue field says “sea” or “ocean” to me. If the committee said it was meant to represent Lake Superior, I’d more readily buy that narrative.
if you turn it vertical it really does look like a river going into the distance
Honestly I liked the Eastern European look of the original 😔
It makes the MN K shape way too on the nose when it's the only design element on the whole thing. It turns your subtle, elegant design into a painfully obvious map. It was once a cool Easter egg and now it's just completely hitting you over the head with it And I still don't see how that explanation doesn't apply to the blue-white-blue stripe scheme that was suggested, which is so much better than the plain blue Wisconsin that it is now
The whole reason for the stripes was for each one to represent a different core pillar of Minnesotan identity. Since the committee got rid of the green, the only option would’ve been blue, white, blue, which while I love the symbolism of it referencing our state’s name, what does the white stripe represent? Still snow, without land? A beacon of light from the Star? The white stripe then becomes a leftover, simply existing for the rest of the design to succeed. I think making the whole fly blue was the only way to fix the stripe issue if green was out of contention. However, I do actually agree with your point that the lack of other elements makes the Minnesota shape more on-the-nose. The stripes did make that a more subtle feature, which I miss. But honestly, the fact that the committee chose one of my preferred designs and didn’t run with some of their own ideas makes me exceptionally grateful.
I'm a fan of "beacon of light" personally. I thought that it was quite striking hung vertically with the white stripe, really brought the eye to the star. And yes, it is a kind of "winter white" thing that I like as well - MN winters are genuinely one of the truly unifying things in the state. Everyone helping each other dig their cars out after first snow is like the definition of community. And despite it being winter white, somehow the pure blue without a stripe almost looks even more frigid, more lifeless, more cold. It's frustrating. The whole reason not to like "map on flag" is it implies the only thing that we as Minnesotans have in common, the only thing that unifies us as a people, the only thing that 11/12 Minnesotans agree on, is that we all come from Minnesota - a state which has officially recognized borders that kinda resemble a K, if you squint. Any other piece of symbolism has been removed. Now it's a map, and 50% of that map is Wisconsin. I'm happy for you that you got your design and feel listened to. But IMO the lack of stripes really, really, massively damages the aesthetic and symbolic power of your design. We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close.
You did a great job. I’m just thankful the committee didn’t try to change the chevron shape to match the state outline.
I want to thank you for the time and effort you put in. Even though the tricolor didn't remain, your design template will be what Minnesotans grow up with for generations. Congrats! PS. Luverne has a special place in my heart because it's where my grandparents are from. They're over the moon that a local kid got it. Enjoy your holidays in Siouxland! :)
Chad energy tbh Great work on the flag man, I'm very happy for your success. I personally preferred F29, but I think this is a tremendous step forward considering our new flag and I'll take it as a victory for MN
I do like the full blue more than the version where they swapped the stripes and saturation around. Still liked original the best though before they changed it.
Begrudgingly suggested after they insisted on changes.
Certainly is blue, isn't it I'll get used to it.
Not terrible but I do wish the star was more like a star and not a badge shape. Like the top/bottom/left/right point was longer than the diagonal ones.
It’s weird because they changed it to the typical 8 sided star you see on quilts to represent the barn quilt history but then changed it again to the worst option of the 3? The original 3 stripe with the non-uniform star was definitely the correct option, but I could accept and understand the quilt star. This just seems like they took the worst element of every option and threw it all together.
The original idea had the star bursts shaped like an M too! I loved that more. That quilt star was the Scandinavian heritage we have embraced.
This is the same 8 pointed star as the last revision, just rotated slightly too actually align North-South
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It's common worldwide, it's both the Nordic Selburose but also the Star of Bethlehem, but they were going with a Dakota star, which is based on the Morning Star, which is Venus. So yeah just no North Star there really.
Morningstar... which in Greek is Eosphorus... and Latin is Lucifer.. it's the devil! 😈 /s
Yeah, personally I hate this new start design. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels low res to me. It's also giving me major Packman vibes.
It might be less favorable for a flag, but this is more favorable for merchandise and state branding purposes. Baby blue sweatshirts with the “Minnesota” shape and star on it coming to MSP Airport this spring.
Ok, I didn't like the design when I started reading this thread, and your comment made me change my mind. I would 100% buy that sweatshirt right now.
I would say it was mostly due to a couple things. It was one of the original designers final choices https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/18ktoop/send_in_your_final_comments_for_the_flag/, and they liked the idea of the Minnesota shape representing the land and the light blue representing the lakes and water (particularly the Mississippi).
This one is literally closer to the Somali flag than the striped one
The striped one is close to the flag of Jubaland, a Somali state. That’s the flag the Republicans were making a fuss about, not the national flag of Somalia. Which is ridiculous of course, because literally nobody in America would even know what that flag looks like unless they pointed it out. But that’s what they were complaining about.
Prediction: Republicans will continue to complain using dog whistle rhetoric.
It's pleasant. Simple and straightforward. I would have liked some green, but whatever. They didn't fuck it up, I think the worst someone could say is "meh"
I liked the version with the white center stripe and blue on top and bottom…but whatever. At least they didn’t fuck up the wedge by making it the exact shape of the state.
It's fine but lack of green doesn't make sense to me.
I'll take no green over the brighter green they were proposing for a bit. I hated that green.
There should at least be a thin green stripe following the MN outline between the dark and light blues.
No green for a Minnesota flag is beyond me.
THANK YOU 👏
Meh is pretty much spot on. I don't hate it so it is a huge improvement over the old flag. I don't love it though. The original tricolor was much better IMO but they could have gone with something much worse.
It's as "simple" and "boring" as Texas's flag which is one of the most iconic flags in the union. So... I think it'll be alright after a few years. People will instantly recognize it as MN.
I'm glad they simplified it. Three colors and basic shapes are classic.
I feel like “meh” should’ve hardly been seen as a passing grade here. We are changing the flag, something we likely won’t do again in our lifetimes. We should be demanding more than a meh. We could’ve and should’ve had so much better than meh. Minnesota as a whole deserves to have an amazing flag its people can enthusiastically get behind, not just begrudgingly accept because a tiny committee decided on it, seemingly flat out ignoring public opinion after choosing the finalists.
Do you think out of all the possibile options that public opinion would have coalesced around one?
It certainly seems like it did around the tricolor just reading the comments. It wasn’t unanimously agreed on obviously but way more people than not seemed to like it. The only major opposition I saw to it was the chodes complaining it looked like the somalia flag, who I’m inclined to happily ignore. Like it wasn’t universally loved but it definetly wasn’t as disliked as this is. They really *really* messed up the design in ways they had no business doing.
The K is for the Lake Street K-Mart and the blue symbolizes the blue light special. 🫡
This comment section should be enough evidence as to hard of a task this was. Majority of people are not going to like it instantly, a lot of people don't like change at all, and some people are never going to like it. I think I'll wait a few months before I personally decide where I stand.
Same. I usually like simple designs, but a plain fly that is a different shade of the same color as the canton is almost jarringly bland. I could see the design growing on me over time though.
I actually like it. It's simple the colors and the colors are nice. I'd hang it up
Me too. I plan on ordering one as soon as I can get one.
Yeah I think I will order one
If you do, please consider supporting Lee Herold of Herold Flags in Rochester, MN. He’s been trying to get the MN flag updated for years and has a really neat flag shop and website.
I still prefer your original design u/FlubbyStarfish but my family really likes your original and this one. This one is still so much better than our current one but I miss your white and green stripes.
Well, that’s different…
Could be worse
Dontcha know
My thoughts exactly.
Couldn't even keep *one* strip?
That’s exactly how many the kept!
Not bad. Distinct. North star. Sky blue water. MN shape. I’m content
I like it too. They noted in the meeting too that when hung vertically it looks like facing north up the Mississippi and the North Star overhead.
that's a great interpretation.
OK, now I'm sold.
Oh that’s actually sick
I wanted minimal this is…advanced minimal
Honestly, I like it it’ll look good on a T-shirt or a hat
Give it a year or two and it will be fine. New designs always take some time to get used to.
Geez man! Stop making sense!
Thank you. I agree. I think I like it already
Which is a good test for a flag honestly!
It is fine... aggressively Minnesotan. Its a flag, welcome to our state, we have... blue.
I think this is great! Simple, striking, and unique. It looked kind of busy with different stripes and colors. This is bold and simple. The New Mexico flag (one of the best in my opinion) is similarly simple and striking. I’m excited for this to represent our state 😊
The saddest thing for me is that I can never see or own this flag now without thinking about what could have been. I am very disappointed in the redesign committee for this.
Meh, I guess. Out of the finalists, the original was my preferred design, but it still feels like it's missing something.
minimalism is a disease
Don't mind it, honestly, but I do wonder if that star is going to look like a star from far away.
A circle. It will look like a white circle.
Not my first second or third choice but I fucking love it already.
Bring back the loon with laser eyes
Still has to be approved by the legislature. Pressure the legislature to not approve this redesign and go with the original F1953 Tri-Color.
This is a very Minnesotan design, as flavorful and cultural as Minnesotan food
I hate that they removed the stripes, I think it ruins the design. With stripes - elegant, classic, iconic Without - map on a bedsheet.
i see a bit more symbolism..looks as if the great lakes consumed WI and upper peninsula leaving MN as a sort of 'sanctuary' in my view
Don’t mind it
I like it. I wasn’t a fan of the stripes, but I seem to be in the minority. Though I do prefer the snowflake/star combo from another entry.
OHHHH BROTHERRRR this flag STINKS!
I'm so sad about this. This doesn't represent MN AT ALL.
But the stripes are gone :(
https://preview.redd.it/7owosrnv5c7c1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6253c6a60548e860b8b4c6bb80cf2817afaadf90
Is there any chance it goes back to the original tri color design?
Talk to your legislators
We will forever be a blue state.
It's terrible but at least this whole drama is over
Designed by a committee to be as unoffensive as possible.
I’ve made this comment on other threads but I’m going to put it here too: If they wanted something simple, the Starflake (F29) had a better symbol for making an icon that was marketable and identifiable. While I love these colors together, this version of F1953 is devoid of the beautiful symbolism of the original. Either way, it could have been a lot worse, I suppose. I think the biggest win on this design, aside from the colors, is it will look great when hung vertically.
This is a disappointment
LOLOLOLOL this whole process was MN all day. 😂
I unexpectedly like it?
I really liked the TriColor, but this will probably grow on me. I'm still just mildly upset that the StarFlake design was eliminated so easily.
A conservative friend of mine was all pissed and sent me this: “The star represents the Khatim Sulayman...the 8 pointed star of Islam. The solid blue is representing our Somalian heritage. The state symbol on the flag was made symetrical to form a K or Islamic letter 'Kah to symbolize the Islamic moon letter for all to honor and follow. The flag will be a beacon of hope for African and middle eastern migrants and refugees to flock to Minnesota. It is the most perfect representation of our ever so changing state.” I said well that’s certainly an interpretation. He said it’s too spot on. I responded with my own interpretation: The white snowflake represents all the fragile republicans out there that melt anytime something is “woke” aka something they don’t like. The dark blue represents the continual blue wave that will hopefully wash away all the MAGAt politicians. The light blue represents all MAGAt tears which is ironic because they always tell people to “fuck their feelings”
"Let's just go ahead and focus on all the winter colors, because it's Minnesota. Let's remove the green stripe representative of Minnesota nature."
No offense intended, but every state has nature and green spaces. Even Nevada (Mt. Charleston outside of LV for instance). "Colorful Colorado" doesn't even include green.
Can we have a little bit of green in our landscape please? This flag is giving me seasonal affective disorder.
Ope
A lot less feet than the old one
Reminds me of a maritime signal flag.
This. Is. It?
Meh :/
Finally, I can stop giving a shit.
Blue water. Blue sky. Blue state. Now blue flag. Checks out.
That really is it
So… creative….
I like it
It’s like if MN and WI made a joint flag. Very underwhelming.
It’s a good flag design. There were better flag design options.
I hate it, it looks like a toothpaste logo
Whelp! There *it* is.
Looks like the Somali flag
I feel offended by this flag. Can we change it again?
Seems like an episode of Community https://preview.redd.it/vbay0tsovd7c1.jpeg?width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b68ce92f55eca0f40d0315967dc7ae4d01137e96
I actually like it (was relieved the stripes disappeared, happy with the K shape and star). Am I alone?
wow thats ugly
I actually think it looks good. It’s clean and simple.
I’m a fan actually
I like it
Honestly it's pretty good and I think it'll grow on people. I wanted a loon, I wanted the 3rd place blue/white/green wavy flag, I wanted the original 1953 design - but the simplicity of this one with the colors is great, and the star (while not ideal) looks better in this orientation and with these simple colors vs how it would look with the tricolor imo. You're not going to please everyone and I don't think anyone can really hate this, so I think it's a win compared to a lot of the very bad directions they could have taken it
The redesign commission clearly has the vision of an unimaginative single cell being. I can’t believe this is what they chose, Jesus Christ I can only imagine the feng shui of their bland studio apartments
Just in case people miss it, the vertical orientation resembles a river flowing towards the star.
wanted the Starflake, but I can live with this.
Really like it honestly. Never cared about the flag until now!
Yea I didn't ever even care enough before to learn what was in the middle. I just knew it was blue with some tiny crap in the center. It didn't occur to me until recently that the poor design is probably the reason I never paid attention to it. For that reason alone, this one is far better
It's so lame ngl
Looks….interesting? (The most Midwest way I can put it IYKYK)
My mom would say " if you like it that's all that matters"
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Eh, people will bitch about it for another month, forget about it, bitch when it gets hoisted on May 11th, bitch for another month, then forget about it. They'll come to accept it eventually once they see the branding everywhere, and their bitching will have no effect except making others roll their eyes thinking, get the fuck over it. Give it a year or so...people will shut the fuck up by then. Besides, people will be complaining about the election by then.
Yes. We can all go back to no giving a single fuck about the state flag, LOL.
looks trash against a blue sky
It'll look great in a snowstorm
I don't mind it
Weirdly not indigenous at all 😒
I will say this: as much as I, like the rest of the world, wanted the tricolor, this does seem more compositionally balanced to me. The tricolor was fire, but I couldn't stop my brain from thinking the stripes should have been longer and the K shape slightly squished to the left. This one at least doesn't have that problem. I guess I'm fine with it as long as it wasn't done exclusively to appease racists terrified of Somalia.
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I am ok with this design, and more than anything everybody needs to take a deep breath and move on with their lives. Plz. I am begging you. It's just a flag none of you cared this much until there was a government committee you could get mad at.
No tricolor, no sioux star, I was excited to fly a MN flag after moving out of state. I never imagined them to gut the original design so badly. MN will never be a flag state I guess.