What Should Minnesota's New State Flag Look Like?

The Minnesota legislature voted to replace the state's flag, which is the state's seal on a field of blue. The current design is both boring and illegible, and almost indistinguishable from dozens of other state flags. But what design will replace it?

In 2020, Mississippi asked for public input on a new state flag and got lots of wonderful, weird, and funny submissions. Minnesota is doing the same, and received 2,123 submissions! Some are seriously good, as if they were designed by trained graphic artists, while others appear to be a required elementary school assignment. And there are plenty of comedians taking advantage of the opportunity.

You can spend all day looking through the official gallery of submissions, or skip to Racket, for a gallery of the 30 goofiest designs. But really, there are a lot more than 30 that will make you laugh.

There is also a separate gallery of suggested designs for a new state seal, which makes incorporating the design of the new seal into the new flag fairly impossible, and that's a good thing according to CGP Grey. The committee tasked with coming up with a new flag is supposed to have it ready for thelegislature to consider by January first. -via Metafilter