As someone from outside the USA, I'm surprised a state flag looks this good. I dig it.
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There has been a recent movement of states with bad flags trying to improve their image. Illinois might be next and I'm quite excited about it as it's long overdue!
I thought, "Doesn't Illinois have one of the few good state flags?"
Nope, I was thinking of the city flag of Chicago. The state flag is literally just the state crest on a white background. It would absolutely benefit from a redesign. :p
There's actually a few nice ones. Check out New Mexico, one of my personal favourites.
I think NM is ok, but we Coloradoans fuckin' LOVE our flag.
Best looking flag to ever be on a Subaru.
It's no California Bear, but it's up there
The bear is great but the fact that they label it "CALIFORNIA" in big block letters makes me laugh every time I see it. It's like a child drawing.
I just watched CGP Grey's video about state flags yesterday
He's a Colorado hater though.
Lol he stuck to his "no name on the flag" rule but I recall him saying it was decent. Im from IL so I cant complain about bad flags
Tbf, it does look a bit like a corporate logo
I still can't believe they tried to stop this from being adopted because better designs are woke now apparently
Look, let's be honest. Any change is "woke." There is this imaginary world that existed 80 years ago that they want to get back to, that was all sunshine and surplus, and they think that any change, particularly progressive change, is bad and "woke."
Edit: so I realized what instance I was in and that this isn't the appropriate place for that rant. So I will just say that I really appreciate the changes that are being made to flags, because it seems like the people coming up with the flags in the first place didn't really get it.
Looks like an nfl team logo. I hate how contemporary corporate design it is.
You think that's bad, check out some of the municipal flags in Japan, especially the ones designed in the early 2000s. The ones based on old clan symbols are fine, but those other ones look like some corpo bro from the 90s commissioned designs by saying "I want it to have more radical swoosh vibes!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipal_flags_of_T%C5%8Dhoku_region
Hirosaki not changing theirs is… interesting.
I guess Buddhism is still common enough in Asia that WWII didn't completely ruin the manji. You still see temples marked on maps with it these days.
Some of those must have been straight up inspirations for Star Wars. Looking at you Hachinoche and Kamikita.
Still better than the state seal on a flag
Weird, it doesn’t feel corporate at all to me. A flat, simple design doesn’t immediately mean something’s corporate.
Contemporary corporate is extremely fitting to the Mormon majority.
Is there alot of bees there?
Since you haven't received a serious answer yet...
Utah is self reffered to as the Beehive State because Brigham Young originally wanted to name it "Deseret" from the Book of Mormon. "Deseret" in LDS teachings means "Honeybee". This was meant to show that the Mormon settlers were hardworking, industrious, and self reliant.
This obviously didn't fly for a ton of reasons and they didn't have much of a choice after the Union Army basically chased them halfway across the country and then took a foothold right alongside them in the territory to make sure they didn't establish a Theocratic state.
to make sure they didn’t establish a Theocratic state.
Another Big L for the US military
US military v theocratic state in the desert, name a more iconic duo.
Wait it's actually to do with Mormonism? Wild
Hive mind?
As someone who used to live there, that's exactly what I thought too!
is utah known for beekeeping or something?
When settlers first got to Utah they imported bees and brought them in to help develop and cultivate. Since then, Utah has been known as the beehive state.
That would be a logical reason for it but remember this is Utah... so no.
Bees have weird place in Mormon lore. The creepy founder created a new name for them in the Book of Mormon "Deseret".
His successor, Brigham Young, used it as the name of country Mormons tried to establish in the west.
"It represents a theocracy ruled by the church."
The bee symbolism used in sermons from the 1850s described the godly society the Saints strove to build.
https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-symbolism-of-the-beehive-in-latter-day-saint-tradition/
Wow. That is nuts.
that makes sense. thanks for the utah lore
It's well designed, nice shapes and colours
looks like colorado envy to me…haha