r/vexillology • u/CapGullible8403 • Oct 06 '25

Redesigns A New Flag for New Zealand

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u/cupsof_joe Oct 06 '25

so ugly it's beautiful

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u/CapGullible8403 Oct 06 '25

so stupid it's brilliant

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

So brilliant it is cucumber!

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u/Nick__reddit Oct 06 '25

So cucumber it is pickle!

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u/albiedam Oct 06 '25

So pickle it is Rick!

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u/Braziballs Santa Catarina • Earth (Pernefeldt) Oct 06 '25

So Rick it is and Morty!

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u/LifeOrchid4367 Oct 06 '25

So Morty it’s adolescent awkward.

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u/Abduljabar31 Oct 07 '25

So adolescent it's lazy :P

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u/LifeOrchid4367 Oct 07 '25

So lazy it’s ugly.

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u/a_happy_boi1 Oct 08 '25

So ugly it's beautiful.

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u/Momik Oct 06 '25

Rickle the Pickle?

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u/ElephantFamous2145 Oct 06 '25

"No, its just stupid"

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u/Declanmar Six • Nine Oct 06 '25

Let’s not go nuts.

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u/macho_greens Oct 07 '25

Still better than the union jack lol

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u/Effective_Author_315 Oct 08 '25

The cybertruck of flags

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u/Its_Pine Oct 06 '25

I like that it gives the illusion of triangles just floating above red

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u/BreakTN Oct 07 '25

Great, now I cant unsee that

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u/JayBigGuy10 New Zealand Oct 07 '25

Looks like the Norwegian flag if it had been through a car crash

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u/usugiri Oct 07 '25

Scrambled Iceland flag

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u/Moofius_99 Oct 07 '25

No… they’re sunken into the red.

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u/kamahaazi Oct 08 '25

several Nepals

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u/grahamfreeman Canada Oct 06 '25

Throwback to the 1974 Commonwealth Games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_British_Commonwealth_Games

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u/lukeysanluca Oct 07 '25

This is an incredible design. Something we studied in school

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u/cosmic_monsters_inc Oct 07 '25

Looks a bit dodgy in black and white print though no? It is very swastika-ey.

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u/alfredfellig Oct 10 '25

NᵃZⁱ :(

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u/pconrad0 Oct 08 '25

They didn't know it was gonna come off like that.

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u/JockeyKent Oct 09 '25

Same. It ushered in a great set of Commonwealth Games logos: Edmonton and Brisbane (and Victoria).

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u/Worldly_Roof_9121 Oct 07 '25

Except if u rotate 45° it’s kinda a swastika lol

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u/lukeysanluca Oct 09 '25

If you rotate it 90⁰, 180⁰, 270⁰ it's identical though

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u/Galatony0311 Liguria • Italy Oct 07 '25

New Zealand Zealand New

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u/jjackrabbitt Arizona • Phoenix Oct 07 '25

Woah! I have shirt with this on it that I picked up in the Auckland airport. I thought it was just a clever "NZ" logo that evoked the Union Jack. No idea it was the logo for a Commonwealth games.

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u/DinoKea Oct 06 '25

Inspired by the 1867 flag?

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u/CapGullible8403 Oct 06 '25

New Jack Zealand

Four blue triangles, edged by white, on a red field. A deconstructed Union Jack, representing NZ.

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u/BobbyTables829 Oct 06 '25

Union Zack lol

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u/hornet51 Oct 07 '25

Will they make Rebel Moon 3?

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u/Ana_Na_Moose Oct 06 '25

This comment is what makes this post lol. (Might want to put it in the description of the post!)

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u/Conferencer Oct 06 '25

I've seen this before, where's it from?

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u/FeteFatale Oct 07 '25

1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games flag

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u/jerichos Oct 06 '25

now i can only see triangles

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u/mastocles Oct 07 '25

Which as the OP said represent Aotearoa. The reason is top secret —par with unearthed Viking longboats the kiwi government keeps in a secret bunkers guarded by earthquake causing weather satellites. That's why you don't see triangle shaped pounamu (jade pendants) —banned! My theory is that when Māui fished up the North Island He secretly used a triangle not his grandmother's jawbone, because physics.

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u/Business-Hurry9451 Oct 06 '25

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u/lizardphobia Oct 07 '25

Wow, a new flag for Norway!

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u/Business-Hurry9451 Oct 07 '25

Damn, I should have copyrighted it!

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u/Critical_Complaint21 Hong Kong • Macau Oct 06 '25

I hate this so much that I'd have awarded your post with 10 accounts if I had the money to

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u/natrstdy Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

This would make for a good brand logo. Maybe for knock-off Reeboks?

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u/nemmalur Oct 06 '25

Like those “British Knights” shoes from the 1980s? These’d be Kiwi Kicks or something.

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u/ZambieElite295 Oct 07 '25

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u/Drutay- Oct 08 '25

Gen Z-ealand revolution

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u/urkerl Oct 08 '25

Nep Zealand

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u/Major_In_Coolness99 Oct 06 '25

Idk why but reminds me of the Kia logo redesign.

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u/Pennonymous_bis Oct 06 '25

I wonder if a rugby game would be enough of an excuse to burn it ?

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u/ELc_17 Oct 06 '25

Actually, this would kinda go hard

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u/Different_Writing177 Oct 06 '25

that actually looks cool.

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u/CapGullible8403 Oct 06 '25

This comment is factually accurate.

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u/MarkoM910 Scotland Oct 06 '25

Reminds me of the N7 logo from Mass Effect, which means we could retcon Commander Shepard to being a Kiwi.

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u/Obiwebb Oct 07 '25

Not much of a retcon, Canadians are just the Kiwis of the North to begin with

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u/TWK128 Oct 07 '25

This is what I thought it was at first, too.

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u/eztab Berlin Oct 06 '25

Nothing beats the Laser-Kiwi

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u/Critical_Ad_8175 Oct 07 '25

Laser kiwi is the only acceptable flag alternate 😂

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u/Icy_Consideration409 Oct 06 '25

I should hate everything about that.

But it just works so well.

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u/NeatAd8230 Oct 06 '25

It looks like a flag a cartoon super villain would fly. 

Or maybe the Zombies from Plants vs Zombies.

Edit: New PvZ theory, the zombies originated from New Zealand, for the funnies.

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u/Connect-Stress-3350 Oct 07 '25

Like British Nazis

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u/Jackmino66 Oct 06 '25

0/10 idea, 10/10 execution

I do like it but it is, so wrong

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u/ArofluidPride Montenegro Oct 07 '25

I genuinely cannot tell if I hate this or love it

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u/mosurabb Oct 07 '25

I should hate this a lot more

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u/StevenMC19 Florida • Straight Ally Oct 06 '25

If this was black, white, and silver, I'd be all over it.

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u/dorkpool Oct 06 '25

The it would definitely look like a KIA logo

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u/VizslaFellaRIB Oct 06 '25

Can we have a fictional tag for posts like this?

I've been looking on my map for New Zealand for the past hour and it's Just not a real country!

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

New Zealand? I thought it meant NaZi.

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u/piggiefatnose Oct 06 '25

AI generated swastika smh

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

!wave

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u/Fit_Prize_3245 Oct 08 '25

No flag fow NZ will be as good as the Laser Kiwi Flag

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u/IcelanderinPoland Oct 08 '25

Never forget!!

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u/Heretic-Seer Transgender • Earth (Pernefeldt) Oct 06 '25

New Zealand in the style of Colorado

2

u/TensorForce Oct 06 '25

Thanks for the snorting giggle. Glorious

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u/ryancementhead Oct 06 '25

And you can turn it sideways and it’s still the same.

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u/jomcmo00 Oct 06 '25

Only thing that would make it better is having "ew ealand" in a tiny lower case font besides rach letter

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u/Oberndorferin Germany Oct 06 '25

You can even hang it sideways and it still says NZ, wouldn't approve, appreciate the effort

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u/Creepy-Fisherman-758 Oct 07 '25

Yo, that is fucking dope as fuck homie…

2

u/VividConsideration19 Oct 07 '25

WHY IS IT YELLING AT ME?

2

u/Gold_Sheepherder2521 Oct 07 '25

lovely form of English - multi layer flag

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited Jan 12 '26

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u/404pbnotfound Oct 07 '25

If you process it as 4 blue triangles it actually looks pretty cool

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u/Ecleptomania Oct 07 '25

THANKS, I hate it, and I love it.

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u/SatisfactionDry2491 Oct 07 '25

It says it even when rotated, (a bit 1984  -esque)

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u/TerraSenTheTerrarian Oct 07 '25

What if new Zealand was an evil cartoonish genius wishing to propagate his empire

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u/Ok-Duck-5127 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Something about this design is strikingly familiar from decades ago. I can't put my finger on it, but I think it's from my childhood in the 70s.

Maybe an airline bag? AirNZ perhaps? A bank? The feeling is so very strong. It was a physical object that I owned made of soft plastic or vinyl.

This is driving me nuts!

Edit: It was the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games flag. Thank you to u/FeteFatale!

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u/VasilZook Oct 07 '25

Is New Zealand becoming a gas station

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u/Familiar_Cow_6901 Oct 07 '25

Jarvis, remove that diagonal lines and zoom out... OH MY GOD, HE IS BACK!!!

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u/whydoibother123433 Oct 08 '25

But seriously, why does New Zeland still have its colonial era Union Jack flag, when it hasn’t been a de facto British possession since 1947?

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u/Inevitable-Pie-8020 Oct 09 '25

Why does it look like a fascist british flag

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u/Aromatic-Bell4192 Oct 07 '25

Fascist vibes.

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u/MapsAreAwesome United States • California Oct 06 '25

But why? 

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u/CapGullible8403 Oct 06 '25

So people don't mix it up with Australia's flag anymore.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Brb designing new flag with AUS written in same style. Not the first or last time we're going to steal your flag.

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u/Karfiyeet Oct 06 '25

so stupid that it wraps around to being kinda totally awesome. best part is you can rotate it and hang it vertically and it still reads

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u/real_W74 Oct 10 '25

As a German, I don't approve.

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u/petrusmelly Chicago • US National Park Service Guidon Oct 06 '25

sweeet as

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u/Prince_Winter- Oct 06 '25

if the British flag was not the British flag and actually made by someone redesigning the British flag for a Reddit sub known as r/vexillology:

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u/KingKiler2k Oct 06 '25

If NZ changes it's flag to anything other then the Kiwi, I will commit acts of violence so deplorable the Hague courts would give all 5 guards live ammo

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u/GrassyKnoll95 Oct 06 '25

Turns out you can do worse than just putting the Union Jack in the corner

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

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u/NukeouT Oct 07 '25

The natives will still rightfully probs not prefer the neo-colonialist vibe

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u/Apprehensive-Sea9540 Oct 07 '25

Add the Coldstream guard doing the Hakka?

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u/yinzer_1013 United States Oct 06 '25

Idk why but this gives me New Jersey vibes

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u/CroCGod73 Oct 06 '25

If NZ was bought out by Private Equity

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u/el_jefe_del_mundo Oct 06 '25

Can you make one for Australia

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u/willutalk Oct 06 '25

Reminds me weirdly of the Nepalese flag

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u/IrrationalPoise Oct 06 '25

Did you...did you just rotate the N to make the Z?

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u/ElevatorDazzling7491 Oct 06 '25

I love it! 

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u/ElevatorDazzling7491 Oct 06 '25

thank you this is the best thing I’ve ever seen

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u/AlephBaker Oct 07 '25

I don't care for it as a flag, but as a logo for something of Kiwi origin, it's awesome.

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u/DomYorram Oct 07 '25

Worst proposal ever

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u/Sardnija Oct 07 '25

but nz doesn't exist

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u/CotswoldP Oct 07 '25

My eyes hurt

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u/Bob_Spud Oct 07 '25

A bit like the logo for the 1974 Commonwealth Games held in Christchurch.

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u/dennis_prager_based Oct 07 '25

accidentallybritishn*ziminimalistflag

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u/Legosheep Oct 07 '25

It's good, but I think it needs a leaf

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u/Tornirisker Italy Oct 07 '25

Proportions are a bit off

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u/CapGullible8403 Oct 10 '25

Nope. Not even a bit.

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u/Abduljabar31 Oct 07 '25

mamma mia :P

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

!wave

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u/richStoke Oct 07 '25

Looks like a pissed Union Jack

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u/kyle_kafsky Oct 07 '25

Looks like its either a brand from the 70’s or a new NS Party.

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u/Dragonite-2 Oct 07 '25

looks like a corporate logo banner dawg..

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u/Dry-Dragonfruit5216 Oct 07 '25

🇬🇧💥🚙⬅️

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u/ZZinDC Oct 07 '25

Even coming from a family which obsesses over the Zs in our name, this is too much for me.

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u/ZZinDC Oct 07 '25

Even coming from a family which obsesses over the Zs in our name, this is too much for me.

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u/ZZinDC Oct 07 '25

Even coming from a family which obsesses over the Zs in our name, this is too much for me.

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u/calimehtar Oct 07 '25

Works as a Nebraska flag in a pinch

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

As an Australian I can speak for New Zealanders..😉

Yuck

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u/Siam-paragon Oct 07 '25

It’s also two Ns or two Zs, one turned sideways

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u/Franco_Fernandes Oct 08 '25

This is garbage, I love it.

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u/fieldsilver Oct 08 '25

Evil and offensive in every way that it curves back to being a masterpiece. What a genius.

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u/OalBlunkont Oct 08 '25

The Kiwis deserve that flag for passing on the chance to adopt hypnoflag.

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u/pconrad0 Oct 08 '25

Not crazy about this as a flag, but as a logo or brand, I love it.

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u/RedGavin Oct 08 '25

Nazi-ish

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u/Expert_Telephone3745 Oct 08 '25

If you overlap the N and the Z you get a wierd Nazi looking flag.

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u/PaddyJohn Oct 08 '25

Looks like a TV company logo

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u/Code-Neo Oct 08 '25

This looks like it would fit well in a wacky space video game. Like the mecha pilots of Neon Zeda are from New Zealand 

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u/VacationSudden9545 Oct 08 '25

Looks like a British radio station

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u/Yet_One_More_Idiot England • Scotland Oct 08 '25

0 stars out of 5; needs more Laser Kiwi.

Genuine question: is there an indigenous name for New Zealand?

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u/ShouldBeAsleepRN Oct 11 '25

Aotearoa

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u/Yet_One_More_Idiot England • Scotland Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

Thank you ^^

...and I am not going to attempt to pronounce that, as I would make an absolute hash of it. xD

Potential redesigns for the NZ flag, nodding loosely to the Maori flag (I quite like the one in the bottom-right)

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u/cerealfordinneragain Oct 08 '25

It hurts my face

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u/phantomwasclaimed Canada • Victoria (Canada) Oct 09 '25

Unironically this would be an amazing news network logo

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u/DecorumBlues Oct 09 '25

I don’t think NZ should run another expensive referendum to vote on it!

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u/Demurrzbz Oct 09 '25

I mean. I seriously love it

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u/kahnindustries Oct 09 '25

Im getting dyslexic facist vibes

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25

A flag to replace reference to the Union Jack but it's only explainable by referencing the Union Jack lol. This is the logical flaw that anyone who thinks it seriously is a good idea is overlooking.

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u/Resident_Attitude283 Oct 12 '25

If you look at it for a long time and then close your eyes, the colours are inverted. 🙂

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u/CapGullible8403 Oct 12 '25

I tried it: orange triangles, black outlines, teal background.

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u/No_Lead8765 Oct 30 '25

i nteresting take. I like that it keeps some connection to the original while trying something new. The color contrast works, but the layout could be simplified a bit—flags read better at a glance. Overall, it’s a solid redesign that feels plausible."

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u/TOKMF139 Nov 05 '25

WHY?! 😭

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u/boscosanchezz Oct 06 '25

Quite National Front, might want to steer clear of that.

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u/wheatcrust Oct 06 '25

I think it’s bomb as fuck

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u/Sonofjeddah Oct 06 '25

How bizarre

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u/MrFrankingstein Oct 06 '25

If this flag was established 100 years ago I think it’d fall into the category of ugly flags that go hard

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u/Hobbsidian Ireland (President's flag) Oct 07 '25

Also in the camp that this is bad but fantastic

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u/Nervous-Discount9116 Oct 10 '25

Stop! We already have a perfect flag design.

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u/AteYou2 Oct 07 '25

Better than the current one

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u/A-SALAM-K-II Oct 06 '25

So ugly, I feel personally disrespected. (I'm not from New Zealand)

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u/abfgern_ Oct 06 '25

Looks very 60s

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u/LifeOrchid4367 Oct 06 '25

Looks as if we colonized it.

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u/IRL174099 Oct 08 '25

I prefer the Kiwi with lasers from his eyes

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u/Kian-Tremayne Oct 09 '25

Why have a flag for a country when you can have a half-assed corporate logo?

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u/Valuable-Garage-4325 Oct 09 '25

Wrong shape for a national flag. Looks like a corporate logo.

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u/CapGullible8403 Oct 10 '25

Wrong shape for a national flag.

LOL, this is a 1:2 rectangle... what shape do you think commonwealth national flags are supposed to be, octagons?

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u/CyclopCurve Oct 10 '25

White people...