This is the current Albuquerque flag:
The flag is surely (excessively) based in New Mexico's, but much less effective. The lettering doesn't belong to a flag, and the thunderbird, a local symbol, is possibly more stylized than it should.
So this is Gabe Re's proposal:
You can find official rationale here. In summary, the flag is based in natural landscape, with red stripe representing muddy Rio Grande, yellow for the desert and the bottom-right zig-zag forming the mountains. The zig-zag pattern and the turquoise color (from gem) also relates to native art.
It's not a bad flag, but I don't like the blue touching the red, so I made the following redesign:
I think this design remembers more the Spanish flag, while retaining all the basic symbolism from previous flag. I rescued the thunderbird from previous flag, in turquoise color and less stylized.
The new flag has a better color layout, and I don't think it looks any bad.
Comments are welcome.
More about Gabe Re's design here.
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