Why the UN Flag is a Bit Bad 

I would never have associated my flag version with either crosswalks or prison bars. Quite a revelation. See, this is exactly why films have test screenings.

The problem with your new design is it now looks like jail bars.

"The UN flag has a bland design" *Puts 4 rectangulars on a light blue background*

I disagree completely, the UN flag is easily reconicable for anyone whom knows what it looks like from a distance. And pretty unique in color in addition. If anything, just remove the land from the globe and make it be a globe grid earth.

I feel the issue with putting the color on the background rather than the pillars is that it creates this illusion of the 4 pillars of freedom being drained of color and then locked behind blue prison bars.

I disagree. Yes, the emblem is kind of difficult to deduce from a distance. But the stark contrast of the coloration (blue and white), which is only shared by one other nation, is more than enough to denote the flag of the United Nations. Also, you oversimplify the flag by removing the world map and replacing it with abstract bars. A flag is to be simple, yes, but it should also be meaningful and indicative of the entity it represents. A world map clearly identifies to anyone, regardless of language, that this flag represents a global organization. Four bars are much more abstract, and meaning is much harder to deduce. I insist that the simplicity of colors makes up for the complexity of the world map, rounding out into what is arguably one of the most easily identified flags in the entire world.

I see your point, but consider this: the current UN emblem looks friendlier than the 4 pillars thing because it's pleasant and round while the pillars are are very angular and almost intimidating looking. Also, the symbolism is way too obscure and abstract for the general population cuz like everyvone knows about the continents, but the 4 basic freedoms is straight up nerd shit lol

This is feeling like a cgp gray fever dream

>Man claims the UN flag is obvious and bland >Proceeds to change the harmonious-looking icon with a bunch of bars

The honor flag with the blue and white looks like a corporate logo.

even the UN is getting oversimplified

HOLY MOLY A EDUCATIONAL RU-vidR WHO SITES THIER SOURCES. Good on ya.

*"UN: Involved in Peace"* imagine that line but without a colon

I think you could improve the flag a lot by replacing the map projection with a stylized globe like this 🌐

The UN flag breaks some rules of flag design, but abides by the most important one: if it works, screw the rules. And it works!

Yeah if you had a vote on these flags and had people choose which one they wanted i guarantee you'd have 90%+ for the current one Another rule of flag design: People have to actually like how it looks

Gotta love the UN’s bright blue colors being used as a “shoot here” icon on peacekeepers’s helmets, completely negating camouflage and providing no protection for UN troops

I’d leave the circle with the meridians and parallels and just get rid of the the geographical shapes. It’s the same concept just without the geographical distortion.

Current design isn't perfect but your alternative is worse

6:35 North korea: Dont add it, i might have to leave if you do!

The problem with your new design is that it looks like a barcode you would scan at the supermarket.

„The honor flag is simple and iconic“ Is it bad that I never knew it existed?

I disagree with the olive branches being too detailed, they're super simple. I'd keep the flag as-is but change the map to a simple symbol representing the earth.

honestly a large circle with "UN" in it, similar to their goofy helmets, would be a banger flag for the organization

Does anybody know the name of the tune at the end of the video?

I’d have to disagree, I think that the flags simplicity works because it has to represent everyone so the symbolism has to be broad and include everyone. The blue represents the sky which is the same for everyone and is the opposite of red which is often associated blood and war, the map shows the earth with no borders so nations with territorial disputes won’t get offended, and the olive branch’s while cliché are widely recognized as symbols of peace. If you put any more symbolism you risk alienating or offending a nation. On the other hand I think your redesign goes too far in the other direction were you simplified it to the point where it has lost all meaning, and in a worst case scenario could be misinterpreted in a negative way.

Not to be too mean... But the moment I saw the old flag I thought of a jail

A good way to kinda get rid of confusion just make a shield and a non specific globe in the shield it makes sense for both the present and a possible future

4:06 that flag is much better than the old UN flag, when it just has the olive branches

To be quite honest, I think the redesign is plain horrible lmao

Ehhhh you had me until you showed the alternative. Nah I'd rather have the current flag than 4 bars. I agree with the others here. Just make the globe a white circle. Done.

at 0:52 the flag on the left side ist the "bonnie blue flag" whisch was used by the confederates in their independence war (also known as the American civil war). There is also a popular song about this flag.

Funfact, the English used at the UN is British-ish English. So "programme", "centre" and, most relevant for your video, "honour".

Makes sense to make the UN flag into a zebra crossing. Everyone just walk over them anyway!

5:02 no, we been invaded by... Micronesia

The map on the UN flag puts NZ top and centre, which is nice. Usually we are cropped from the bottom right corner.(Although most of NZ makes it into the Mercator at 2:54.)

I prefer the old one... I'm sorry. I go against the emoji/simplistic design flags, I think they become to simple and lose something.

I very strongly disagree with most points you made in this video. I actually really like the UN flag and the way it represents earth. The Lay-out of the world‘s continents is pretty much the most basic (and only) thing that all countries can agree and put similar value on as it simply displays their „home“. The Northpole projection is ingenious as it removes a lot of the biases towards a specific region since it is simply a fact that there are more people and, even more importantly, more landmass on the northern hemisphere. Leaving Antarctica out is a very acceptable down side to this and the compromise on focusing on the GMT Line makes sense as it puts the pacific towards the back which is the least inhabited part of the globe. Communication is still functioning as the white and blue Colour scheme is Sufficient to distinctly spot the UN flag from a distance and being able to “draw” a flag really shouldn’t be a criteria for flag design in our day and age anymore. Also those “fundamental values” you described are actually much more euro centric (or American) than the simple display of the geographic features of the earth. Freedom of speech and freedom of worship are definitely NOT the most common shared values across the entire globe. And even if they were I can’t imagine China or anyone else for that matter being happy with a quote of a wartime US-president being the foundation of what essentially is the world’s emblem. Therefore I find the 4 stripes pattern (not even mentioning its obvious visual shortcomings which others here have already described sufficiently) decidedly inferior compared to the current design (which I do think is in fact the best compromise there is).

I think on the UN flag they should put the symbol for earth instead of a world map

The UN Flag should actually just be a pentagram

Tapakapa: We are better off letting maps be maps and flags be flags. Cyprus: How dare you?

You almost turned the UN flag into a loss meme and that is hilarious to me

Whats the name of the song in the end

"Antarctica is missing" I want you to think about this for a minute.

The UN: stop developing nuclear weapons Me: How bout I do, _anyway_

As a Catalan I absolutely agree with implementing the original Honour flag, we should just turn it 90° and paint the background yellow. There, perfect!

New here, love the fact, that you actually suggested something! :D

6:19 mustache man and friends bruuuh

Something I like: The UN today is most focused with maintaining peace. Changing the flag would symbolically change the focus to more human rights rather than just anti-war

Bruhhhh the “have we been invaded by Somalia” joke had me DEAD

I think you could probably "unwrap" a globe, without stretching it, to make an accurate flat map. (the seams would be the pacific plate boundary, shifted slightly eastwards to accommodate Japan/Australasia and a straight line going up in the Bering strait)

3:51 Instructions unclear I now have to pay child support for F

“This is a bad flag” he says to one of the most iconic flags in the entire world

One thing I do like about the map in the current UN flag is that although strange-looking it's actually as fair as a world-map could conceivably be. Areas in the north get to be in the center at the cost of being smaller, and areas in the south get to be larger at the cost of being more distorted

I would argue that if you removed the globe and scaled up the size of the wreath, that would make for a beautiful flag.

whats the song at the end of the video?

My proposition: Delete the branch and the map, but leave the globe lines (only delete the map) because either you agree or not, not everyone has the same ideals as those 4 pillars representing.

Another great vido from Takap... Tapek... Tepek... The flag guy.

I really liked this video. It is kind of similar to the style of one Sam O’Nella, but different in a good way. It has a close enough format, visual style, and feel to Sam’s videos that it’s within an easy comfort zone to watch, but also very different so you’re not just some guy doing what he did. It’s pretty great, and it’d be ironic if you didn’t even know who Sam is. Anyway, you just earned a new subscription.

I hope Nepal's UN flag is the quadratic formula with the globe at the top the globe and the olives on the bottom

I wish the biggest problem with the UN was their flag design.

One problem about using those 4 pillars as the basis for the new design, is there are countries in the UN that don't agree with them very strongly.

What if one just simplified the earth map to a circle, and made the olive branches a lot less detailed?

If I had a nickel for every time a stickman with square glasses talked to me about flags, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.

you kno wwhat? Just make the flag a hexagon, because we all know that hexagons are bestagons

I think the symbolism is only "meh" because it's very literal. It's a world, and the symbol for peace, aka "World Peace". I think the U.N. understands that peace isn't exactly an exciting concept, but it's literally what it's striving for.

What’s the song used at the end?

5:12 - LOL, i had the experience of spending 20 minutes on just drawing the US flag in a school project )))

I think the whole "you can't see the details from a distance" isn't necessarily an issue. As long as you can identify what the flag is at a distance, it doesn't matter how many details it has. For example, look at the Portuguese flag, it has a lot of detail in the center, but has a design that lets it stand out from other flags at a glance. I'd argue it's a better flag than for example the Dutch flag, which is really simple and straightforward, but there's so many similar looking flags (Russia, Luxemburg, Croatia, Paraguay, just to name a few) that it loses that "identifiable from a distance" property.

The map only has a bias if you've already decided that North is up

1:30 Actualy yes. In Bern was the World Data Forum and there did I saw a UN flag as a square.

that's a great new flag and all but how are you gonna adjust the proportions for other countries, like Switzerland?

I think you could change your name to: Flags that suck and sometimes potatoes

I think the UN flag is actual a masterpiece. It presents in a clear enough way the world so that you see where everywhere is. It's centering one europe is the option that allow for the most countries near the top to not be mushed up. It doesn't show antartica because it's unimportant and a tense region. It's colour scheme makes is recongizable. Anyone looking at it from afar will guess it's the UN (the flag of Somalia is rarely scene and the central area shaps are kind of opposites), the red and white flag you're offering actual less recognizable, red and white aren't exactly rare on flags. The messagery is much less controversial. Instead of imposing American values (it's literrally based on a state of the union adress, not exactly neutral) that are at best centered on the West it puts a clear neutral message that few would openly object to (freedom of speach and religion are not at all seen as universal rights by UN countires let alons beligireant combatants). Being non controversial is key for a flag of peace keepers who want to be defended by the universal values they represent.

Him : There you go! Me : *sees the worst flag ever* Me again : Say Whaaaaaaaattt

Bro I always thought its a default flag in games when I was young

That’s what the dang antarcticans* get for not joining

I know keeping it simple is an important rule in flag design but I think this is a rare exception. The UN flag should be a little grandiose and flamboyant. It's represents a meeting of all the nations on earth working on freedom and peace for all and I think a fancy flag can reflect that important mission.

0:15it represents the scout from tf2?

Japanese where 4 is considered an unlucky number: Am I are a joke to you ???

Bro it's United NATIONS, not United Earth, Antartica is no nation, why include it tho?

I like the current UN flag as it is :/

the flag u sugested sadly whould never be accepted because it had a mesage that would probably offend China

For replacement? Good idea but quite hard to implement though, I mean yes that 4 pillars are meaningful but only in some ways. For military perspective? I freaking agree and love the pillars. Easier to costumize for sure. (UN-SOG/UN-SFG for spec-ops guys and many more).

I mean you could just have a blue background with a globe looking shape in the middle without any continents. Similar to the armillary sphere (gold part in the Portuguese flag)

I think that trying to get every country to agree to a flag that references so many freedoms would be hard. There's quite a few UN members which are freedom-optional. ://

Four pillars as white on blue become windows of negative space. Maybe this is less true in a world that isn't blank and white.

I would change the globe to a solid circle and make the olive branches somewhat straighter so they stay under the globe rather than wrap around it. Keeps the symbolism while making it more visually distinct from a distance.

1:58 your Austrian German accent makes presence here.

When I saw the fellow with the UN hat I thought you were going to suggest that they should change the flag to just have the letters UN on it

You know that if they decided to put Antarctica on it now, flat earthers would see it as evidence that there is an ice wall keeping it all in.

Me: can we get CPG grey Mom: we have CPG grey at home CPG grey at home:

(1:10) Proportions/Aspect ratio can never be "bigger" than another. 2:3 isn't bigger than 1:1, and isn't bigger than 3:5. It's all about how it's formatted. • If you have a fixed width of the flags, then the less square flags will be bigger and longer. • If you have a fixed length of the flags, then the more square flags will be bigger and taller. • If you ensure all flags have the same area, then no flag is bigger than another. A 1:1 flag will be shorter but taller than a 2:3 flag

Outro song?

In the clouds in a sky thing there's some text. It says "not even on[e] fallout" Also the [e] is something that may or may not be there, it's even harder to see

When mom says we have CGPGrey at home

Nah i prefer the og over your proposed one

I honestly thought you were going to replace the map with the symbol of the proposed "International Flag of Planet Earth", designed by Oskar Pernefeldt.

flag fans when a flag has an obvious and easily recognizable meaning: "this flag is bad they should use these colored polygons instead"

You make some of the best videos in the genre of “stick figure talking about things that are otherwise uninteresting but provided in an interesting overview with humor”