To review from my previous post,
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7 Stripes for 7 Articles instead of 13 for 13 colonies.
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27 Stars for 27 Amendments instead of 50 for 50 states.
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Colors borrowed from Plains Nations cardinal direction colors as a way to include land recognition in the design.
I originally tried using The Statue of Liberty’s Torch as a visual divider between both sides, but some folks opined that it was a bit too hard to discern, so instead I leaned a bit more into the land recognition aspect and borrowed a Northeastern Nations bit of iconography, the broken arrow being a symbol of peace, and a two arrow exchange representing war.
Decided to pull a Venice and include a peacetime and wartime variant of the flag just to be quirky:P.
I liked the Liberty torch/arm as a visual divider better, though I am intrigued by the idea of including a Native American element.
I liked the imagery of the torch better too but I got a few comments about it being hard to discern without knowing what it’s supposed to be, and even while knowing what it’s supposed to be.
I caught the arrow symbols while rewatching Extra History’s series on Hiawatha and the Haudenosaunee Confederation, and felt it would make for an interesting conditional design that’d be easier for me to do and still have it be easily recognizeable.
If I could do the torch cleanly though, I’d probably go back to that since it’s the main part of what conveys the “nation of immigrants” part of the overall design message.
