damn it! there's still something about the thin white borders juxtaposed with the giant swath of cream that i don't like... maybe lose the white borders (again) or shrink the star a little? or both? or none? obviously keep the beer guy though.
It's too busy. I get that the lines represent the river, but how about keeping the creamy star, eliminate all the lines, green on the left for land, blue on the right for water, and beer stein guy in the creamy center?
i started redesigning the flag by mashing together pieces from the originals to placate the people who thought the original finalists were all too simplistic. i was specifically trying to make it more complex and busy; i'm not going backwards.
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I think Milwaukee should take the avant garde approach and go with this:
All of you other mother fu&$ers are trying too hard. This is us not trying. We've wave our white flag in pride, as we forever immortalize the not trying at all flag.
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Personally I like this design i posted in the sky at thread on city flags which ironically includes the new old flag (which of course has the old old flag on it) as a city crest. Technically inclusion of a crest is not terrible flag design.
uhhh, all good flags, throughout history, have been simplistic. it's the very most basic point of good flag design. it's not a modern notion at all.
flags are intended to be seen and recognized from a distance, not up close under careful inspection, so they need to be simple and bold to be effective.
highly intricate and jumbled designs with literal imagery and lettering (such as milwaukee's current mess of a flag) are the very antithesis of what a good flag should be.
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