Progress Pride Flag Using Four Colors

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.

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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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