Redesigning US State Flags 

*correction: @8:41 I made a mistake saying Saint Edward’s island instead of prince Edward’s island Just released one for Australia’s states!! Which country should we do next? Canada? France? England? Mexico?

The best thing about your redesigns is that you do not reject maximalism, so these flags look like actual flags rather than corporate logos

Louisiana flag redesign actually had me gasping with how much it was accomplishing without being too busy.

I think the whole North and South flag matching for the Dakotas would an awesome idea.

i love that nevada flag redesign... but you gotta admit that the two coolest words you can put on a flag is battle and born

It looks like New York is trying to apply to join Scandinavia. 9:49 😂

For Pennsylvania, you should add in a keystone shape. Its nickname is the “Keystone State”.

I don’t think I’ve seen so many excellent flag redesigns in one video- I love how you used others’ ideas and credited them. Being a Hoosier, I’ve always thought Indiana had a higher quality flag than most, but most flag review videos throw it in a D at best and F category. I appreciate you valuing it!

My one complaingt is that modern vexolligists love CGP-Greying their flags into corporate looking slop. Its not bad to have detail, just keep it with in a certain boundary before you get to realistic, but avoidibng complete minimalism+

The Louisiana redesign would actually make me want to move there so I could fly it, which is saying a lot for a state that I don't even like to visit.

BRO THE LOUISIANA REDESIGN GOT ME TRIPPIN ITS SO GOOD

flags are one of the rare things where simplifying it actually improves it (referring to the trend of companies changing their logos into circles )

Pennsylvania's flag still really needs to have the Keystone symbol in it, it's a huge part of the state's imagery.

I am so happy you did not change Maryland's flag.

Most of the redesigns are very good but the Louisiana redesign is fantastic.

I liked the redesigns of the flags of Hawaii, Kansas, New Mexico, and I also had the same idea when I redesigned the flag of Florida.

It’s always nice to hear somebody realize the Indiana flag isn’t just a seal on the bedsheet

That Louisiana one with the bird and the Fleur is phenomenal

Thanks for featuring my Idaho flag from 2009! I'm amazed it's still going around. I'm also glad you like the new flags of Utah and Minnesota. I was officially involved with both of those final designs as an expert advisor, so I'm glad our efforts have paid off.

For Kentucky, you want to show the connection to "blue grass" and also have stripes that are wavy in homage to a horses mane as it runs since Kentucky is the home of The Kentucky Derby, and many race horses are bred and raised in the Lexington KY region

9:58: North Carolinian here. Absolutely not. I saw someone else replace the words on the left with a cornucopia and 12 stars. That was much better.

Louisiana variant is brilliant !

A fantastic video. I love seeing the creativity behind all your redesigns or the cool designs invented by other people. It was great to learn something new about the states and their symbolism. It's somewhat brave to make a video like this as any content involving discussions over designs is practically begging to have the Comments section filled with nitpicks and opinions. And speaking of, here's mine... In all seriousness though, I like the symbolism of adding the green for forests, blue for lakes and rivers, but my take is once you repeat it too often, it loses its impact and becomes less distinguishable from other similar ones. Just as we currently have a dozen or so flags that are simply state seal on blue background, having a bunch of flags that use some combination of green and blue to represent their land and water features (or that include state flowers) will become vary same-y.

I really like a lot of these flag Redesigns you did a fantastic job on digging up state symbols and history you are seriously underated. I also love redesigning state flags!

the pennsylvania flag literally should just be a keystone symbol.

That Washington state redesign the 3 diamonds and 2 lines also seem to be alluding to the Washington coat of arms which is awesome. Alot of symbolism for one flag.

I like the way your designs for North and South Dakota mirrored each other. I think you should do something similar for Vermont and New Hampshire, the green mountain state and the white mountain state, respectively.

One thing is clear...you know A LOT about state history and geography! Well done. I can't imagine a more fascinating run-down of good options for state flag changes.

Not only do I love all his state redesigns (Especially NY) his attitude was so amazing! There was another guy who did redesigns and he was super arrogant and critical of different states. My only change would to be to add the word hope on the RI flag as it’s been a big part of the culture.

Ohioan here, I am very happy that you appreciate the unusual shape as well. I feel compelled to riot whenever someone tries to mangle it into a rectangle, especially without any allusions to the distinct current shape.

PA is the Keystone State. Put 6 diagonal slashes through the flag alternating between red white and blue. Put the Keystone in the middle with the colored slashes going through the Keystone and voila!

okay legit can't wait for some time in the future on one of those flags of the states of the US video and then it end on every state having a cool/badass flag.

The redesigns look good. As a Canadian there's a few redesigns I would like to see up here. A few years ago, there was a redesign for the Maple Leaf which put blue bars down the flag between the red and the white. It was called the "Union Flag". The blue was supposed the represent Quebec. Ontario still uses a Red Ensign (similar to the pre-Maple Leaf Canadian flag) that is rather 'uninspiring'. I could see something incorporating the provincial flower, the white Trillium, on a blue and green background. Some of the other provinces could do with a redesign too, though my favourite is Newfoundland.

I think the Rhode Island flag was very good as is. I would remove the ribbon, slightly enlarge and center the anchor, and make the background a contrasting dark color.

New Mexico’s alternative turquoise background looks even BETTER than the current yellow!

PLEAAAASE i need New York State to get a new flag so bad. Big fan of the one you made here! Before you added the orange, I was going to bring up the dutch influence and then boom- you added it: perfect!

I started the video thinking I would just watch a few. I watched the entire thing because frankly you've got a talent for this. Almost all of your redesigns are a definite improvement over the current designs. I like how you explained your rationale for using the colors and shapes that you chose. Good job.

Missed opportunity with the PA redesign to use the keystone symbol. Also, it's commonly accepted our state colors are blue and gold. This redesign was just boring and bad tbh

One of very few things I like about Utah is that my state made a good flag eventually That and the mountains

that Louisiana one was so cool

I’ve always been a proponent of simplifying flags to shape and color. Loved this!

As a Kansan, I am particularly impressed by the colors you used on your redesign, and the use of the swallowtail to subtly highlight the state's name was very clever. I also find a certain ironic charm to it, given that my Dad is from Ohio. One design element that I have seen pop up in Kansas flag redesigns is to give the sunflower 34 petals in reference to it being the 34th state.

You did a fantastic job with those redesigns, hats off to you good sir 👏

I love these flags! They're awesome!

PA needs the Keystone symbol.

As a FL resident, we would redesign the flags ourselves, but we keep of getting eaten by gators before we could.

Big agree with Oklahoma’s removal of “Oklahoma” from flag. It now rivals New Mexico’s simplicity and impact. Though, green might not be the right background color. EITHER leave the sky blue background as is…or switch background to an shade of red, reminiscent of the red clay soil prevalent in the state.

Overall, I liked most of these. Great work sir

TIL Utah has a new flag. Somehow I didn't hear about that news!

Pennsylvania is called the keystone state so add a keystone shape in the flag

Most of these are awesome

The redesign for the Louisiana flag you showed is so beautiful and meaningful, it would be criminal for them not to adopt it!

Authority trying to hide their true past, not ours.

Louisiana’s redesign is a banger! Send it to Gov. Landry to approve please.

These are so fucking good man only problem I have is w the New York one that you did, I would’ve done a vertical tricolour of purple white and orange for the Iroquois English and Dutch

8:10 Nebraska has virtually no connection to France today

1:55 Yeah, we really do fly it proudly, We fly it right next to (or under) the American flag so wherever you see an American flag here you’ll probably see a Colorado flag nearby

As a Michigander I think the Michigan flag change is nice

@councilofknowledge Kansas does have an alternate flag, its a simple.blue banner with a single sunflower in the middle.if tou scroll far down enough on the wikipedia page for the kansas state flag, you can see that ot is an unofficial alternate flag.

Do you have .svg file versions for these, I am thinking about using some of these for Freeciv?

1000% underrated

At first I wasn’t so sure about redesigning Louisiana’s flag since I think it’s quite nice as is, but WOW that design is incredible! They need to adopt that flag immediately!

Us Delawareans actually like our flag because it’s one of the few “seal on a bedsheet” flags that actually works and looks good and is distinguishable.

For California you could put the text in the red bar and make the bear a bit bigger

As long as Maryland stays the same. I love that flag!

You should do top 50 biggest city in each state flag redesigns

As a Wisconsinite I love your Wisconsin flag design. If Wisconsin ever opens up submission like Minnesota did promise me you'll submit it.

I checked the comments, and I'm so glad that a lot of my fellow Pennsylvanians insisted on a Keystone. Anyone who has lived here long enough knows how much they're used.

I love almost all of these redesigns But I would Change North Dakota’s redesign cause I saw a different one that looked pretty good, it was a Dark blue background with the spike thing, and for South Dakota it was the same, but flipped upwards and a light blue background And I saw a good Connecticut design that had a shield of Grapes.

I LOVEEE THE KANSAS REDESIGN OMG

I’m sorry but you did North Carolina DIRTY man…

As someone who enjoys vexillology, I approve of these redesigns

I agree

Washington should go with the Cascadia flag. Its already everywhere, and it's simple.

The trouble with symbolizing counties in New England is that counties don't serve much of a purpose -- almost all governmental functions are at the "town" level.

As a Wisconsin resident I could recognize your Wisconsin flag right from the thumbnail, the only thing i might do is turn the center arrow black to make it mirror the head of a badger, the state animal

This may or may not be intentional, but for the Virginia flag (13:01) the Red 'V' on the white background is reminiscent of a Marlboro Cigarettes packaging, symbolizing the major tobacco production that was the state's lifeblood for many many years. I think that may have been accidental but it is funnily fitting. Great video with fantastic designs! :)

excellent designs! with exception to virginia at 13:10 which is giving marlboro red, altho on second thought that might be appropriate 👍

Thank you for keeping the arch for Georgia , perfect symbol for the state

The T on the Toronto flag also depicts city hall at Nathan Philips Square

The Michigan flag redesign is incredible

Id definitely say nice work, I admire the use of the green mountain boy constellation, tho I do have to ask. Why not put the constellation in the corner to parrelell the old flag?

DAMN RIGHT ITS AN AMAZING DESIGN FOR NEBRASKA!

The Hawaii redesign looks like one of the Baltic SSR flags ( 3:35 )

I like almost all of your ideas except I would leave North Carolina's alone. I think the state flags are long overdue for a redesign.

I like most of these, but every flag needs a star on it. It's sort of the theme.

As an Ohioan, I'd like to thank you for your compliment on my state's flag. :-)

CGP Grey would be proud

As a NC resident, I personally like the current flag

Isn’t Bradley Lockhart the same person who redesigned Bellingham’s flag?

For Georgia, I think something a little more modern that picks up on being the Peach State

I really like the Louisiana flag as-is, but that proposed redesign is awesome. As a NH resident, I can't say I like that redesign. I don't like the current flag either, but locals would probably prefer to have the Old Man of the Mountain silhouette, and perhaps include the state slogan of "Live Free or Die" (though, I'd rather there not be text).

That Connecticut one is beautiful.

The Florida flag background should be a light blue, for the surrounding water, except for possibly the northern quadrant, which could be green, for the swamps. Whichever flag it was that had the grapes you disrespected pretty hard by removing the color from the grapes and vines when you did the redesign. It looks like Bunnicula got to them in the transition.

there are only so many ways that you can "design" three colors and three lines than add symbolism. the Utah redesign was good. the Minnesota one wasn't. as a new yorker, I'd be proud to fly your flag, well done.

As a native Texan I would have liked to see what you came up with. I love the Lone Star but I’m interested

As a former Hoosier I respect you for leaving the flag untouched

Kansas should just be a sunflower with 34 pedals, on a navy field with maybe 1 other symbol. Keep it simple. It was orginially proposed as a banner that fly vertically.

Honestly as an Oregonian having the only 2 sided flag is iconic but if it was just the Beaver and the state seal on the same side I wouldn’t be mad. But also I like your design too

Nevada should just adopt the burning map from the beginning of Bonanza as their flag