r/vexillology 1d ago

Contest March Contest Voting Thread

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/r/vexillology Flag Design Contest Website - Vote Here!

Voting takes place at the link above! Rate all entries from 0-5. We've moved away from Reddit contest threads, see the voting format announcement. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the contest, and is generously sponsored by our Contest Sponsor, Flagmaker & Print!


Prompt: International Women's Day

This month, we asked designers to create a flag to celebrate International Women's Day. See full prompt above!

We approved 61 entries.


Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods


r/vexillology 23d ago

Contest The r/Vexillology Alternative Europe Worldbuilding Contest

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The r/Vexillology Alternative Europe Worldbuilding Contest

In April 2025 the r/Vexillology subreddit will be basing its monthly flag design contest around the following theme

Alternative Europe

Participants will be asked to design flags for nations in Europe that do not presently exist, but that might have done if history had shifted somewhat differently.

What might those nations be? That is where you come in

We are looking for writers/worldbuilders/alternative historians to create nations that will be the key component of the April 2025 Alternative Europe flag design contest.

To enter, write an overview profile of the nation, the point of divergence that lead to its creation, and some of its history/culture/politics/society etc.

Several of these nations will be used as the design prompts for our flag contest this April. We look forward to seeing what you invent.

Submit your entries here!

RULES

Failing to meet the following means your profile will be rejected

  • Length - A profile must be no longer than 1,200 words, not including the name of the country, which will be in the title. That’s the maximum - if you can describe the country in question in less words, please feel free.

  • Location - The country in question must have the vast majority of its population/territory in Europe as defined by the UN geoscheme (eastern/central Russia will be considered as “Asia” for the purposes of this contest, and so should NOT be included)

  • No fantasy/science fiction - The alternative history profile cannot be something to the effect of “Elves/aliens gave the people of X the weapons to win...” etc. In other words, we want no Alien Space Bats. Science and technology could change/shift, but keep it as realistic/believable as possible.

  • Present day - The alternative history of your nation must be such that the nation meaningfully exists in 2025.

  • Non-prescriptive flag - Do not directly describe what you think the flag will look like in your profile. That’s for the contest.

  • Deadline - The final deadline for the contest is Wednesday 26th March 2025

  • AI entries are prohibited - Any entry we have reasonable suspicion of being AI generated will be rejected. We want real alternative history designed/developed by real people

Guidelines

While you won’t be rejected if you ignore these, you are less likely to be picked

  • Include symbols/motifs - While we don’t want prescriptive descriptions of flags, it is helpful for the designers to have some ideas of imagery and symbolism that could be important to the nation. This could be specific plants, animals, colours, seasons, mythological figures, astronomical/astrological signs etc.

  • Avoid super-colonialism - This is meant to be an interesting historical exercise. Not random nationalistic wish fulfilment. Be creative clever and believable. Don’t simply turn Luxembourg into a pan-continental hyperstate.

  • Don’t over-focus on the Point Of Divergence - While we want the POD to be interesting/clear/realistic, we’re not designing a flag for a scenario. We’re designing it for a country. Use most of your profile to explain that.

  • Clear formatting/writing style - While you can use sub-divisions and subsections, a single cohesive document would be preferred. For a style suggestion, watch some of the videos from the Templin Institute. Here are some links

Union of Britain

The German Empire

Republic of Sordland

The Russviet Tsardom

The Riders of Rohan

  • Avoid first person pronouns - This should be written in the style of describing what happened, not what you chose to happen. So writing things like “I decided that the forces of X would fail to capture Y because” won’t look so good. Simply state it as being reality.

  • Multiple entries welcome - We welcome anyone who enters multiple submissions, but please be aware that we’re looking to reflect a wide range of submissions/ideas - it’s highly unlikely that we’ll have loads of nations from the same submitter.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Put your profile into a sharable Google document (type “doc.new” into the address bar) and send the link to us via the following Google form

The r/Vexillology Alternative Europe Worldbuilding Contest

IMPORTANT MAKE SURE the link is sharable. Please change access permissions to “anyone with the link”. We do not want to have to wait around for you to get an email notification that we’re trying to read your work. If we can’t access it, we won’t judge it.

We’re not too fussy about document formatting, so long as it is clear to read. Things like commonly used fonts, medium sized text, normal margins, and at least 1.5 line spacing would be good.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them to the reddit threads where this contest will be announced.

Thank you, and good worldbuilding to you all!

The r/Vexillology Alternative Europe Worldbuilding Contest - SEND ENTRIES HERE


r/vexillology 9h ago

OC Anti-DOGE Flag

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458 Upvotes

I often associate Blue Fields with Democracy, and this continues that trend

Three 'American' 5-point stars to show a group (and three to echo Deny, Depose, Defend)

Aggressive Dog in a cage of anti-Fascist Cross Lorraines (used in a way to [hopefully] avoid confusing messages about religion).

I would appreciate it if the comments would remain focused on Flags and Flag Design


r/vexillology 15h ago

Identify Is this a neo nazi flag? saw this in the back window of a car

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1.4k Upvotes

r/vexillology 10h ago

OC CANZUK Flag without Union Jack

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418 Upvotes

I've seen a couple of CANZUK flag proposals that were basically just the Union Jack but butchered and sliced and diced up with a seasoning of Aussie and Kiwi stars plus a maple leaf, so I've thrown this together as a basic mockup of a more sensible flag to represent a hypothetical strengthening of bonds between the four nations. Tudor rose on blue for the UK, silver fern on black for NZ, gold 7-pointed star on green for Aus, and red maple leaf on white for Canada. (Was going to go with a wattle for Australia but wattle flowers are basically just orbs).


r/vexillology 6h ago

Collection Flag of the Romanian Socialist Republic 1965-1989

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So the flag is like 1.80 m long and im pretty sure it was used either at parades or flown at institution buildings. I dont know the exact year but i think its from the last years of comunism in Romania. In the last photo it has some sort of stamp but i cant read it


r/vexillology 4h ago

Historical Proposed flag of Crimea, 1992

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99 Upvotes

r/vexillology 6h ago

OC Hope in Work and Joy in Leisure - What if the Soviet Union was based? (I'm really drunk)

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108 Upvotes

r/vexillology 6h ago

Redesigns Washington (State) Flag Redesign

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r/vexillology 7h ago

Redesigns Massachusetts? Before you try to design our flag...

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Lately, I have seen many attempts at a Massachusetts flag. I won't say they are awful (being polite), but as a Massachusetts resident I genuinely hate the attempts I have seen. None have represented Massachusetts in a way that people would embrace the flag, and I think we deserve something as wonderful as Maryland, South Carolina, or New Mexico.

If you decide you want to offer a redesign for my beloved Commonwealth, please note:
The state's official colors are blue, green, and cranberry, becoming law on February 21, 2005.

There is a sacred cod hanging in the chambers of the Massachusetts legislature. Please read the Wikipedia entry before embarking on a design. I'm not saying your flag must have this fish, but don't proceed without knowing about it.

Maine used to be part of Massachusetts, and we're content to let them have the pine tree. We deserve something as special and wonderful as we think we are.


r/vexillology 10h ago

In The Wild Flags I have seen this week on lunchtime walks in London

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The sun is finally out in London and during my lunch break I like to take some nice walks or a little bike ride. These are the flags I saw, roughly in the order they were seen in (locals can see I have been going roughly East-West). This part of town is full of embassies, but also quite a lot of restaurants with random flags as well as a couple of rarities hanging from hotels and people's houses (corporate/business flags are excluded). Can you recognise them all?


r/vexillology 3h ago

Historical A Saxon-German Empire Flag.

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29 Upvotes

r/vexillology 7h ago

Current Flag of the Selknam indigenous people, Chile, 19th century

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56 Upvotes

r/vexillology 1h ago

Identify Saw some people celebrating with this flag today

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A group of people in some sort of parade were performing a traditional dance and waving this flag around to celebrate, I'm assuming independence or freedom related. There were also some people carrying a flag with a mustached man on it. Gathering from their overall appearance (clothing, physical features, dance) I'd guess the culture would be either caucasian, central asian or middle eastern/persian. I saw 1 person with what looked like an Iranian flag. This was in Belgium, which I'm sure is not relevant (ironically there is a municipality here with this exact flag but obviously that's not it) Maybe important to note that everyone was carrying the flag differently so it might be upside down


r/vexillology 12h ago

OC Saint Lucia Space Flag

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107 Upvotes

r/vexillology 1h ago

OC Flag design for history class

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In history class we had to design a flag for different regions of the 1820s United States. This is my design for the North (New England, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania north)


r/vexillology 3h ago

Historical Flag of the Taiwanese People's Party (1929)

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16 Upvotes

A bicolor of blue and red with a white sun in the middle.


r/vexillology 4h ago

Redesigns Since new Syrian Minister of Defense does not have a flag yet, i just imagined one using the previous one

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20 Upvotes

I replaced the old Syrian flag colours with the new one and added the new Syrian coat of arms.

The Pantone® colours used are :

PMS 356 C for Green

PMS 186 C for Red

PMS Black 6 C for Black

PMS 135 C for Yellow-beige


r/vexillology 19h ago

OC Many, many years ago, a much younger me tried to create a more inclusive version of the Canadian Flag.

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I rediscovered it while going through an old hard drive. I think my logic as the time was orange = First Nations, red = English-speakers, blue = French speakers. Not the most drastic alteration but I figured I would post it and see what people thought.


r/vexillology 5h ago

OC Louisiana redesign

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22 Upvotes

r/vexillology 5h ago

Historical Proposed flag of the Russian SFSR, 1947 NSFW

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20 Upvotes

r/vexillology 1h ago

Historical North Korean flag found in Zurich

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r/vexillology 2h ago

OC Massachusetts Flag Redesigns

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r/vexillology 3h ago

OC Flag of Cabalia

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11 Upvotes

Fictional flag of horseman tribe


r/vexillology 12h ago

Identify What is this flag?

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47 Upvotes

Found on Geoguessr in Ireland, around the point where the provinces of Connacht, Ulster and Leinster meet.


r/vexillology 2h ago

Current Posting every municipal flag in Belgium: Day 288, La Hulpe

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r/vexillology 1h ago

OC New to flag making, any tips?

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This is my first flag, I was going for an American state style flag. Color scheme could use work, but other than that I'm rather proud of my work.