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Redesign the Progress Pride flag using only four colours

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Since 1970, the month of June has been celebrated by many in the LGBTQ+ community around the world as Pride Month. This is why you might see a lot more rainbow flags, and other colourful festive paraphernalia around at this time. Pride Month is a celebration that both honours the movement fighting for LGBT rights / protections / representation around the world, and celebrates LGBTQ+ culture more generally.

This movement has had many different flags over the course of its history, and in 2018 it received another. The Progress Pride flag was developed by non-binary American artist and designer Daniel Quasar (who uses xe/xyr pronouns). You can read the full story of its design, development, and symbolism here.

Other updates to this design have continued, with 2021 seeing another. Valentino Vecchietti, of Intersex Equality Rights UK produced the Pride Progress flag. It’s design was updated to be inclusive of the intersex community.

Among the many elements included within the symbology of the progress pride (including the black stripe representing “those living with AIDS and the stigma and prejudice surrounding them, and those who have been lost to the disease”), possibly the most important is the use of the arrow motif to represent the need for progress. To quote Daniel Quasar “The arrow points to the right to show forward movement […] and illustrates that progress [towards inclusivity] still needs to be made”

In June 2023, the r/vexillology design contest challenge is to design a new flag. One that represents the same central elements, concerns, and causes of the progress pride flag, but using only FOUR colours at maximum.

The four colours can be any four you want, but it can be no more than four (it can be less!). You can use any shape of flag, any symbols/designs/arrangement/patterns/details/iconography you want. But there can only be a maximum of four different colours.

When explaining your flag, make sure you make it clear how and why the symbols you choose represent everything that the current progress pride flag includes. The goal of this contest is to create new and varied ways to represent the LGBTQ+ community and the associated progress that needs to make. The four colour design restriction is here to create the necessity that is so often the mother of innovation.

Thank you to our friends over at r/lgbt for helping us put this contest together.

Please read the general contest rules IN FULL. These are the rules used for every contest, and are available at this link.

You can submit up to TWO designs. You will need to submit each of them separately.

You must submit on or before Sunday the 18th June.


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#1
Always Rising
by /u/no_apologies
Average rating: 3.295
#2
Forward
by /u/oddjuicebox
Avg: 2.943
#3
The Tie-Dyed Rose
by /u/ZombieJockeyGames
Avg: 2.822
#4
Reclaimed
by /u/VertigoOne
Avg: 2.764
#5
Lavender Field
by /u/tinysporebat
Avg: 2.745
#6
Equality Through Unity
by /u/Weslii
Avg: 2.732
#7
Pride Rainbow
by /u/saladinmander
Avg: 2.709
#8
Vigilant
by /u/k0buk13
Avg: 2.682
#9
Emanating Progress Pride Flag
by /u/FXBR
Avg: 2.667
#10
Progress Pride - Love is Love
by /u/Emi6219
Avg: 2.654
#11
Progress Pride Flag - Mythic Unicorn
by /u/travisself
Avg: 2.591
#12
Pink Triangle Flag
by /u/communismal
Avg: 2.509
#13
Equality Flag
by /u/AlphaOrionis06
Avg: 2.443
#14
Progress Pride - The Green Carnation
by /u/Emi6219
Avg: 2.431
#15
Progress Pride Flag - Moving Forward
by /u/travisself
Avg: 2.413
#16
Interconnected Pride
by /u/n0lan0s
Avg: 2.400
#17
Progress in Action (Progress Pride flag redesign)
by /u/FXBR
Avg: 2.380
#18
Pride Butterfly
by /u/bmoxey
Avg: 2.324
#19
The Point of Progress
by /u/oddjuicebox
Avg: 2.324
#20
The Sky is the Limit
by /u/qwerty_sfs
Avg: 2.314
#21
CMYK Gironny Field
by /u/persew
Avg: 2.294
#22
Be Gay Do Crime
by /u/eenachtdrie
Avg: 2.284
#23
Progress Pride Flag but more simple
by /u/LavenderAnxiety
Avg: 2.262
#24
Full Spectrum Future Symbolised
by /u/VertigoOne
Avg: 2.227
#25
Find your Pride
by /u/bees-on-wheat
Avg: 2.225
#26
Rising Heart
by /u/saladinmander
Avg: 2.223
#27
Continuum
by /u/dumbBunny9
Avg: 2.192
#28
Progress Triangle Flag
by /u/Present-Baby2005
Avg: 2.153
#29
Pink Triangle Progress flag
by /u/juanjosecv
Avg: 2.129
#30
CMYK
by /u/TorteApp
Avg: 2.109
#31
Pride Wave (CMYK)
by /u/DWPerry
Avg: 2.095
#32
The Line
by /u/eenachtdrie
Avg: 2.086
#33
Dots and Stripes
by /u/Umelars
Avg: 2.047
#34
FLAG FOR “HOCD THERAPY”
by /u/VG7396
Avg: 2.041
#35
Progress Quad
by /u/coldbrewcoffeecake
Avg: 2.020
#36
Noble Pride
by /u/qwerty_sfs
Avg: 2.010
#37
Unique and United
by /u/no_apologies
Avg: 1.944
#38
LGBT triangle flag
by /u/Colowell
Avg: 1.942
#39
Unstoppable Flag
by /u/Meevious
Avg: 1.893
#40
Grow Everywhere
by /u/bees-on-wheat
Avg: 1.875
#41
Historic LGBTQ+ Flag
by /u/EdfishoWGF
Avg: 1.874
#42
Pride Progress Flag 1
by /u/Miguk4Real
Avg: 1.798
#43
Pride Progress flag 2
by /u/Miguk4Real
Avg: 1.796
#44
Empowerment
by /u/WraithLord2322
Avg: 1.778
#45
The Progress Pride flag with four colours
by /u/NewFlags
Avg: 1.768
#46
People' Positive Progress Pride Flag
by /u/RottenAli
Avg: 1.727
#47
Celebrating Gender Plurality
by /u/coldbrewcoffeecake
Avg: 1.726
#48
Chevrons of Progress
by /u/OptimistiCrow
Avg: 1.676
#49
Circle of Pride
by /u/menos5
Avg: 1.673
#50
Mountain of Progress
by /u/Alden_Larson
Avg: 1.636
#51
Simplified Progress Pride Flag
by /u/Alden_Larson
Avg: 1.557
#52
Pride Serenity
by /u/aeztyk
Avg: 1.535
#53
Pride and Progress Standard
by /u/OptimistiCrow
Avg: 1.531
#54
7 Continents
by /u/Johhny_Geo_Flags
Avg: 1.524
#55
Implied Rainbow
by /u/p_payne
Avg: 1.505
#56
The Fab Forwards Flag
by /u/Meevious
Avg: 1.495
#57
The Coexistence Flag
by /u/ICantThinkOfAName759
Avg: 1.400
#58
The Circles Of Hope
by /u/VG7396
Avg: 1.394
#59
Human Complexity
by /u/Present-Baby2005
Avg: 1.130
#60
Love pride flag
by /u/pinkmanidk
Avg: 1.127
#61
LGBT CONCEPT 2
by /u/NioniosLapps
Avg: 0.814
#62
LGBT CONCEPT 1
by /u/NioniosLapps
Avg: 0.775
#63
LGBT CMYK
by /u/DWPerry
Avg: 0.567
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#56
The Fab Forwards Flag
by /u/Meevious
Average rating: 1.495
Description

The flag uses the pareidolia of a bright blue circle, charged with green, to show the world - the green element points flyward to show the world powerfully moving forward.

The simple geometric planet is embedded in another triangular shape, also pointing flyward, with its edges parallel to the inner one, adding to its strength, symbolising cooperation between groups.

Outside the outer triangle, which is rendered in cyan, the field is a deep but vibrant pink - a homage to the original pride flag (which dropped its pink and cyan stripes due to problems with availability at the time) and a symbol of the huge progress that's already taken place since the foundational days of the movement. The position of the circle, away from the hoist also represents progress being already underway.

While the flag contains symbolism of unity and cooperation, it also uses very bright and distinctive colours to represent individual strength, diversity and self esteem - deliberately using more vibrant, fully saturated shades of pink and blue to outshine the traditional baby colours of binary gender, combined with other colours to show a non-binary spectrum of gender identity.

The blue and green circle can also be seen as a heterochromatic iris, looking forward (flyward), representing genetic diversity and progress toward social equality and understanding of genetic minorities.

The pink elements can be seen as curtains being drawn open, showing both light and inspiration being let in and inner light and beauty being let out, whether at home or on a public stage. It can also be viewed as arms, embracing the world in all its diversity and movement.

The circle is equidistant from the top, bottom and hoist, making the flag simple to construct with a ruler and protractor and all four colours have simple multiple of 10 HSV values.

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