Living in Miami, I knew I had some kind of idea of what our city flag looked like. Of course, I was sure I had seen it many times, I just couldn’t remember it. It wasn’t until the Miami New Times posted an article of a local resident pushing for a redesign, that I really took a closer look at the elements, layout and colors of the flag.

I decided to join in and provide just a couple of fun concepts for submission. It was very interesting to do research and learn more about vexillology (study of flag design.)



Below are a few concepts and construction. Thanks to (www.newflag.miami) calling for Miami flag redesign (because, well, see for yourself) I encourage you to visit the site, checkout this Medium post by Ernie Hsiung, and also watch Roman Mars’ Ted Talks on better flag design. We may also have to redesign the City of Miami seal, amiright?

Also, yes, the first concept is more satirical than anything else. I have a few more pretty neat redesigns below with some extra rationale.

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Angel A. Acevedo

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