At Design Assembly last week Paul Newfield gave a thought provoking presentation and detailed history about this topic. If you heard it, you would agree that how our current flag came about is nothing to be proud of. To cut a long story short, it was kind of like “… oh, we need a flag… no one could decide so they used the one we have now”.

We are posting about this because we want to help those behind this topic/movement gain some attention and also make you think a little about our national identity. So many of us wear this identity on our chest in the form of a kiwi, nz map or Mr 4square, but you don’t see people with the nz flag on their chest…. why not?

Te team behind the campaign are really keen to get the local design community engaged to help stimulate a national conversation about choosing a new New Zealand flag.  What are some cheap (ideally free!) ways we can go about getting this issue into the broader consciousness – viral campaigns, blogs, youtube videos, social networking?  If you’ve got a great idea, please get in touch via [email protected].  The nzflag.com website could also do with a refresh, so any web designers or developers who’d like to support the cause should also drop them an email.

Join the discussion by joining the New Zealand Flag Facebook Group (already 2342 members).

I wonder what the members of [business:made-from-new-zealand] think?

The post Should New Zealand change its flag? appeared first on NZ Art Prints & Originals Curated in New Zealand | endemicworld.com NZ ART blog.