Distractions

Having gotten into an interesting conversation with someone on social media, i threw around some ideas with the competing flags.

Currently Red Peak and the Kyle Lockwood Silver Fern with original flag colours seem to be
the peak contenders, I prefer the Red Peak flag based on balance, correct flag functionality and design (no graven images, looks the same from both side, easy to make out, simple etc).

    

Kyle Lockwood Silver fen

Kyle Lockwood projected RNZAF / Paratrooper flag

Read Peak Flag Design

I thought I'd play around with the flag to try to show that the red peak design is an excellent basis to put things ontop of, akin to how the german flag sometimes comes with the prussian eagle ensign.

I first decided to play around with the RNZAF Airforce Paratrooper flag, by default the flags are as follows.

RNZAF Flag

RNZAF Paratrooper Flag

The follow are my attempts to see what they'd be like with red peaks,

Using one colour change, the roundel I feel places correctly but the colours are too busy.

Utilising the colours on both top right and bottom, featuring the geometry still of the red peak flag, I feel this captures the original paratrooper design but still features our flag ,rather than having it nested in the left like the union jack. The simplicity of the flag lets it be used to easily be identified along side as a background for different purposes.


One of the hardest flags to deal with is the Civil Air Ensign, an international standard of flag that many an artist would 'cringe' at. Our current Civil Air Ensign is 

I attempted to play with the design to see if we could find a solution than just nesting the flag in the top left.

I then thought, what if the southern cross was on the Red Peak design?

This felt the most natural as it's the same position as the original flag, and would grant identity, akin to the german flag with it's prussian insignia, to allow people to honor the old and the new.