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<p>You would be waiting decades.</p>
<p>I find it pathetic that parties that actually had a flag referendum as policy in the last election... Labour... are now saying it is a bad idea.</p>
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<p>Is there a way you can proove that? I need to show someone that as they are banging on about it being Key's vanity project.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bones" data-cid="513257" data-time="1441294226"><p>Not sure if this has been posted but on quick reading seemed quite reasonable...<br><br><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://rowansimpson.com/2015/09/02/dear-john/'>http://rowansimpson.com/2015/09/02/dear-john/</a><br><br><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://rowan.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/redpeak_in_use.jpg'>image</a></p></blockquote><br>Thanks for that. It's been my primary dislike of many of the options presented that they're all too busy. Good design is often simple and that example would be unique. I'd go for a greater difference between the blue and black.
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<p>Thanks for that. It's been my primary dislike of many of the options presented that they're all too busy. Good design is often simple and that example would be unique. I'd go for a greater difference between the blue and black.</p>
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<p>I really like that too.</p>
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<p>My son was asking about why we are changing, and also pointed out that the new ones would be hard to draw. Flags should be simple, they make great points.</p> -
<p>I didn't read any article about the triangle before this shortlist was down to 4, and now suddenly it seems to be everywhere.</p>
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<p>The best point I've read is about this is proving to be one massive social studies project. And that's a very good point. As it's only reinforced something for me, that I'v always known - sometimes democracy doesn't work.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bones" data-cid="513257" data-time="1441294226"><p>Not sure if this has been posted but on quick reading seemed quite reasonable...<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://rowansimpson.com/2015/09/02/dear-john/">http://rowansimpson.com/2015/09/02/dear-john/</a><br><br><img src="https://rowan.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/redpeak_in_use.jpg" alt="redpeak_in_use.jpg"></p></blockquote>
If that was one of the final 4 options I would vote for it, and then vote to change our flag to it. Tidy design, simple but with a great story behind it. I couldn't think of anything more appropriate. -
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<p>Is there a way you can proove that? I need to show someone that as they are banging on about it being Key's vanity project.</p>
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<p>"the time has come for a change and it is right for the issue to be put to the public".</p>
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/policies/10451013/Labour-backs-national-flag-review'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/policies/10451013/Labour-backs-national-flag-review</a></p>
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<p>I too liked the Red Peak design. I think if that and Black Jack were there we could have had a better discussion.</p> -
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/71768480/Support-for-Red-Peak-flag-on-the-rise'>http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/71768480/Support-for-Red-Peak-flag-on-the-rise</a><br><br>
Stuff has decided that the red peak is really popular . I hadn't actually seen it till it was posted here, i like the colours and it looks less like a corporate logo than the Lockwood designs . Are there any other flags that are similar ? -
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/71768480/Support-for-Red-Peak-flag-on-the-rise'>http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/71768480/Support-for-Red-Peak-flag-on-the-rise</a><br><br>
Stuff has decided that the red peak is really popular . I hadn't actually seen it till it was posted here, i like the colours and it looks less like a corporate logo than the Lockwood designs . Are there any other flags that are similar ?</p>
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<p>The red peak is a great design :good1:</p>
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<p>Far and away better than the rubbish that the committee selected</p>
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<p>Cabinet should add this as a 5th options. The committee and cabinet have cocked up. But its not too late to at least offer one decent option</p>
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<p>Then if the public vote for something else then so be it</p>
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<p>Aunty flags is a good way to describe the Lockwood designs</p>
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<p><i>A diagram of the flag.</i><br><br>
The black on the left represents the night sky, while the the blue on the right represents the coming day.<br><br>
Supporter Frizzell, whose work has extensively explored Kiwi iconography, said he found the four flags the panel offered lame, particularly the near identical fern designs.<br><br>
"'They're so f------ tragic I can't believe it. I'm sure Kyle [Lockwood, designer of two of the fern flags] is a lovely boy but that is such an aunty flag, such a nanny flag." he said.<br><br>
"We all know the PM loves that awful fern that we see on the side of airplanes. He's obviously walked into the room and said this is what you're going to choose."<br><br>
Red Peak immediately struck Frizzell.<br><br>
"It's the New Zealand flag. I'm totally convinced. The more I look at it the more I can't see how you could better it."<br><br>
"The night, the day, the sky. The evocation of the meeting house barge boards. The Tangata Whenua is in the house, literally, without screaming it."<br><br>
Dustin has been interested in New Zealand identity as long as he has studied design, and felt something like an obligation to contribute.<br><br>
Like most of his supporters, he found the four shortlisted flags disappointing.</p>
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<p>He was careful not to criticise the panel directly, who he believes have been handed a very hard task, but he had hoped a more forward-looking design might make it through.<br><br>
"They've looked towards those familiar motifs instead of trying to expressing something is perhaps new or innovative," he said.<br><br>
"As a pretty grizzled designer, it's not about you, it's about getting the right solution."</p>
<p>The flag is similar but not identical to another design which won Gareth Morgan's competition.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Winger" data-cid="513423" data-time="1441357304"><p>The red peak is a great design :good1:<br><br>
Far and away better than the rubbish that the committee selected<br><br>
Cabinet should add this as a 5th options. The committee and cabinet have cocked up. But its not too late to at least offer one decent option<br><br>
Then if the public vote for something else then so be it<br><br><img src="http://static.stuff.co.nz/1441349048/428/12569428.jpg" alt="12569428.jpg"></p></blockquote>
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Oddly enough the first thing I thought when I saw it was that it would look pretty badass on the shoulder flashes on our armed forces uniforms while the Lockwood flag would actually look a bit lame . No matter what we choose people are going to take the silver fern on a black background to sports matches .<br><br>
Edit like in this photo, the hypnoflag and the lame version of the fern would look pretty silly here -
<p>WTF.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11507494'>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11507494</a></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">The lack of any actual designer or graphic artist on the flag panel is annoying in a bang-your-head-on-the-wall sort of way. Don't blame the panel themselves, blame the MPs that selected them. As someone annoyingly wiser than me has pointed out, just imagine a panel tasked to select alternative national anthems without a single musician.
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Kirwan" data-cid="513427" data-time="1441358066"><p>It's really growing on me that one.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Winger" data-cid="513423" data-time="1441357304"><p>The red peak is a great design :good1:<br>
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Far and away better than the rubbish that the committee selected<br>
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Cabinet should add this as a 5th options. The committee and cabinet have cocked up. But its not too late to at least offer one decent option<br>
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Then if the public vote for something else then so be it<br>
<br><img src="http://static.stuff.co.nz/1441349048/428/12569428.jpg" alt="12569428.jpg"></p></blockquote>I'm not sure but it's more interesting than the top 4. If they stay with the 4 only it looks like a vote for no change will be the only way to hit the reset button -
seriously don't understand these flag movements starting just as they are officially discarded. First the kyle lockwood small blue large black that Tony veitch got behind..way after it didnt maje rhe top 40 now this red peak bollucks which according to stuff is the peoples choice...where do they get this tripe last I looked the facebook page only had 1000 likes..hardly compelling. Im sure I could get a 1000 likes if i put a picture of my balls on a flag...i have had a few whiskeys, challenge accepted!?
