Last week I was invited to talk about flag design and the “four alternatives” on Radio NZ.
The final four flag alternative designs have been unveiled. The Flag Consideration Panel chose 40 from more than 10 thousand designs that were submitted, and Cabinet signed off on the final four. Talking through the designs is Dan Newman. Dan is the former Global Marketing Design Director at Xero, and the curator of flagdesign.nz, a website dedicated to documenting the redesign of the flag.
Apart from excessively using the word “umm”, I refrained from employing profanity to describe the situation and briefly discussed my disappointment in the announcement. I’ll write more as time permits about the long list and final four alternative designs.
For now, you can hear my thoughts about the process and four alternatives on the Radio NZ site.