Arizona

Arizona
Country	United States
Flag of Arizona
Designer	Charles Wilfred Harris
Adopted	25 January 1917
Score in 2001 NAVA survey	6.92/10 (6th of 72)
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The flag of Arizona consists of 13 rays of red and weld-yellow on the top half, the colors of the flag of Spain, representing the 13 original states. The red and yellow also symbolize Arizona's picturesque sunsets. The copper star represents the copper mining industry in Arizona. The rest of the flag is colored blue, representing the Colorado River.

Proposals for a New Flag of Arizona

AZ Flag Proposal "Graphicology"

AZ Flag Proposal "AlternateUniverseDesigns"

Arizona flag proposal MOTX72

Arizona State Flag Symplistic Proposal. Very similar to the original. By Ed Mitchell. 2013.

Arizona flag proposal 1 by Hans. Oct 2014. (details)

Arizona flag proposal 2 by Hans. Oct 2016. (details)

Arizona State Flag Proposal No. 1 with 48 star Whipple Medallion Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 10 AUG 2014

Arizona State Flag Proposal No. 2 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 16 JAN 2015 at 1507 HRS CST.

Arizona State Flag Proposal No. 3 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 16 JAN 2015 at 1551 HRS CST.

Arizona flag proposal by Achaley.

AZ flag proposal "5thEye"

Arizona flag proposal by Tim Ritz. Textless version.

Copper Star on Midnight Blue with no overhang. The Spainish rays are 7 gold and 6 red to remove tincture clash. Design by Rotten Ali.

Arizona Redesign based of it's License Plate by Sage .A. Rollins

This redesign uses the same # of colors (4) as the original. While the Colorado River is obviously important to the state, I think having 1/2 of the flag blue overemphasizes it geographically. In this redesign I've made the blue look more like a river than a vast waterbody and made the copper a larger portion of the bottom half. This also gives the flag a more desert-like, Arizona feel to it than the current one.

Here's a redesign of mine (inspired by Vexillasny's upload) which uses less blue than before to represent the colorado river, while adding another meaning to the blue with a triangle representing the mountains in the state. The color order of the rays have been swapped as well. Design by Arizonan Eagle

Posted by Preston Knapp [1]

Proposal for a flag for Arizona. By Qaz Dec 2019 (details)

Part of a series of fifty state flag designs, all in blue and white. (Posted by Ken Morton)

Reproduction of a large Fabric flag in a 1918 period black and white photo held at the state museum . Only two dark shades in the field thus use here of red and blue. Copper star as required - no change. Why? = who knows? maybe no yellow fabric to hand? maybe it's a prototype war flag? It was an army unit.