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Offerings on the topic of a new national flag for New Zealand, and on flag design in general, circa 2026

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This is a collection of help and information for aspiring New Zealand national flag designers, as well as for future New Zealand flag referendum committees.

Flag Terminology
The Current New Zealand Flag
Precepts for a New Flag
New Zealand Symbols
The Southern Cross
New Zealand’s UN ensign
Flag Stories 1 to 13
Flag Stories 14 to 23
Basic New Zealand Ensigns
New Zealand Flag Facts
General Flag Design Guidelines
A Fillable Flag Design Form

The Complexities of Simplicity
When Vexillologists are Vexations
Lessons of the NZ Flag Referendums
A Prototype NZ Flag Change Survey
Graphics for Flag Design
Good Flag, Bad Flag is Rubbish
Another Denouncement of GFBF
A Selection of Useful Web Links
A Selection of Useful Books
Wikipedia Flags Portal
Joshua Koo’s FlagWaver Utility
How to use FlagWaver (Official Wiki)

A paradigm: The most important thing to know about an existing national flag
The North American Vexillological Association has an ethics problem

Use your head. Apply critical thinking to the flag design rules of officious ‘vexillonnaires’ like Ted Kaye, Roman Mars, and others of their ilk, as the eminent flag scholar Scot Guenter has done towards the end of his informative 2017 paper, “Historical shifts and emergent paradigms: tradition, ideology, sources of power and influence in flag studies“. Whitney Smith Jr. formalised vexillology. Ted Kaye and NAVA have bastardised it.

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