The current flag of US Virgin Islands:
After presenting arguments to flag change, Sammy presented the following proposals:
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| Proposal #1 (by Samuel McKittrick) | Proposal #2 (by Samuel McKittrick) |
The premise of the proposals by Sammy is very well-thought: before being an American territory, the US Virgin Islands were part of the Danish West Indies. His first design is the Danish flag, with three blue stars on a navy blue background (reference to USA flag) representing the three main islands. His second proposal uses light blue (more similar to the flag of Danish West Indies) and yellow, representing the bananaquit, the national bird of the islands.
The good designs of Sammy gave me an idea to a third design that could be considered. This is it:
Firstly, I changed the star arrangement, to be more similar to the map of the islands and heraldically more traditional. The idea behind this design is to make the Danish flag emulated red and white stripes i.e. the flag of United States, representing the former and the current owners of the islands once.
To a more colorful, we can think on adding bananaquit's yellow:
This design has a much more subtle reference to American flag, what can be a potential fault, but adds local significance and the Caribbean flags' colorfulness.
Your comments are welcome.
Samuel McKittrick's post is very complete and explains more detailed the rationale of his designs. Click here to read it.
not bad, the star arrangement is certainly better, and the Scandinavian cross is emphasised a lot better.
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