Michigan

Michigan
Country	United States
Flag of Michigan
Adopted	26 June 1911
Score in 2001 NAVA survey	3.46/10 (59th of 72)
Standard of the Governor of Michigan
Adopted	1915
Wikipedia article
Flags of the World article

The flag of the State of Michigan depicts the state's coat-of-arms on a dark blue field, as set forth by Michigan state law. The Governor has a variant of the flag with a white instead of a blue field.

The state coat of arms depicts a light blue shield, upon which the sun rises over a lake and peninsula, and a man with raised hand representing peace and holding a long gun representing our fight for state and nation as a frontier state.

Symbolism

As supporters, the elk and moose are derived from the Hudson's Bay Company coat of arms, and depict great animals of Michigan. The bald eagle represents the United States which formed the State of Michigan from the Northwest Territory.

The design features three Latin mottos: "E Pluribus Unum" ("Out of many, one", a motto of the United States), "Tuebor" ("I will defend"), and "Si Quæris Peninsulam Amœnam Circumspice" ("If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you", the official state motto).

Proposals for a New Flag of Michigan

Proposed "Proud Peninsulas" design by Stateriotism X.

MI Flag Proposal "Reddit user Full_Metal_Machinist"

MI Flag Proposal "Tibbetts"

MI Flag Proposal "Eakart1"

"Flag of Michigan proposal" CeasingMango426.

MI Flag Proposal "FlagFreak"

MI Flag Proposal "Lord Grattan"

MI Flag Proposal "Leonardo Piccioni"

MI Flag Proposal "Bezbojnicul"

MI Flag Proposal, Designer Unknown

MI Flag Proposal "Jack Expo"

MI Flag Proposal "N763"

MI Flag Proposal "Jamescnj1 1"

MI Flag Proposal "Jamescnj1 2"

MI Flag Proposal "Jamescnj1 3"

MI Flag Proposal "Jamescnj1 4"

MI Flag Proposal "Jamescnj1 5"

MI Flag Proposal "Jamescnj1 6"

MI Flag Proposal "Jamescnj1 7"

MI Flag Proposal "Jamescnj1 8"

MI Flag Proposal "Usacelt"

MI Flag Proposal by Kermitdefrog

MI Flag Proposal "BigRed618"

Michigan State Flag Proposal No. 2 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 14 OCT 2014 at 1144hrs cst

Michigan State Flag Symplistic Proposal. The white is the peninsula and the rising sun. The shield represents defense, which comes up three times in the current flag. The three stars symbolize Michigan’s three mottos: “Out of Many, One”; “I Will Defend”; and “If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look Around You.” By Ed Mitchell. 2013.

Michigan flag proposal by Steve Lovelace

MI Flag Proposal "Krago1" Inspired by Full_Metal_Machinist proposal, except rotated and maize-and-blue instead of blue-and-white. Also, the blue and green together make a stylized 'M'.

MI flag proposal by 5thEye

MI Flag Proposal "Krago2" Keep the white stars on a green field to represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas (on the hoist), and centre an image of a buck's head on a square blue background (on the fly). Ideally, it should be a stylized version in maize (yellow) but that's far beyond my MS Paint abilities. I 'borrowed' the elk's head from the current Michigan flag.

MI Flag Proposal "Krago3" Combining Full_Metal_Machinist proposal (with maize-and-blue) and 5th Eye's 'Michigan stars' in the hoist.

MI Flag Proposal "Krago4" Design and colors based on the Michigan seal (without happy-guy-and-rifle), with 5th Eye's 'Michigan stars'.

MI Flag Proposal "Krago5" Alternative design and colors based on the Michigan seal (without happy-guy-and-rifle).

Michigan flag proposal 1 by Hans. Nov 2015. (details)

Michigan flag proposal 2 by Hans. Nov 2015. (details)

Michigan flag proposal 3 by Hans. Jan 2017. (details)

Michigan flag proposal 3 by Hans. Raised-star version. Jan 2017. (details)

Michigan flag proposal 4 by Hans. Jan 2017. (details)

Michigan Flag Proposal by TechMountenDew

Michigan flag proposal by Poshact

Proposed by correcthorse45 (Reddit)

Michigan Flag by "ZeekLTK - I liked the proposals by Usacelt where he uses the triangles, which have 3 sides just like a peninsula is surrounded by water on 3 sides, but I thought there should be 4 stars for the Great Lakes rather than 2 stars for the two peninsulas (which are already represented by the green triangles)

Michigan Flag 2 by "ZeekLTK" - similar to the other one except 5 stars, for all 5 Great Lakes (even though one doesn't border MI) and one of the stars is a 6 point star for a total of 26 points, since Michigan was the 26th state to join the union

Michigan Flag 3 by "ZeekLTK" - based on the seal, green peninsula sticking out into the blue water and yellow sky

This replaces the stars from Krago1 with a symbolic representation of the Mackinac Bridge, which links the Upper and Lower Peninsulas,

Michigan flag proposal by James Dignan, November 2014. A stylised map of the state (red) and lakes (blue)

Based on the Full_Metal_Machinist flag - this sees a minor mod to place the stars on the center lines of the white stripes. Redesign by Rotten Ali.

Blue bed sheet with two green stars to represent upper and lower Michigan. Edged white, two horizontal white stripes into the fly to represent the bonnet stripes of a Detroit built fast car. Design by Roten Ali.

Stars hold point touch layout. Design by Rotten Ali.

MI Flag Proposal "The Great Stars" the 5 stars represents the Great Lakes (blue) represents the water, freedom and justice (white) represents the Mackinac Bridge, purity and snow (green) represents the land and growth (orange) represents the industry and Unity. Design by Patriot Kai

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the red stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the white stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal blue cross represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal blue cross represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the two green upper and lower triangular sections represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal blue cross represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the blue diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the blue diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the blue diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The triangular sections represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the red stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the red stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the red stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the red stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the red stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The two stars and the two green stripes represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, the four blue stripes represent the four Great Lakes that border Michigan, and the red stripe represents the Mackinac Bridge that joins the two peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Alternate proposal for Michigan State Flag. The four arms of the diagonal cross represent the four Great Lakes that Michigan borders, and the two stars represent the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Michigan state flag proposed by Ken Morton. Michigan's state motto is "I will defend." For the state's flag what could be more fitting than a version of the "Continental Flag" used by the Patriots during the early American Revolution?

MI Flag Proposal "Laqueesha". Author's note: "The two green bars represent how Michigan is divided into two peninsulas. Blue represents the Straits of Mackinac. The white fimbriations ostensibily represent snow since it snows a lot of Michigan, but really I just added it since it makes the different colors easier to see, so they don't blend into each other like a mish-mash."

MI Flag Proposal "Laqueesha". Author's note: "The overall design of the flag invokes what someone would see standing on the shores of the Great Lakes watching the sun set (or rise)."

MI Flag Proposal "Laqueesha". Author's note: "The overall design is derived from elements found on the Michigan state coat of arms. Green represents a peninsula, orange represents the sunset (or dawn), blue represents the Great Lakes. The white represents snow, since it snows a lot in Michigan. The two bars meeting in the middle and continuing on represents the two peninsulas coming together to form one state."

A proposal for a new flag for the State of Michigan. This design pays homage to Michigan's history as a territory of "New France" and to the French explorers who provided so many of Michigan's place names. In addition, each arm of the cross signifies one of the four Great Lakes which border the state. [Posted by Ken Morton]

[Posted by Ken Morton] I just found out that this is the Glenfiddich stag. Serves me right for not drinking. Mea culpa.

Another design for a Michigan state flag. The four blue quadrants again represent the four Great Lakes, and are borrowed from an design by Brandon Hundt (submitted as part of a design contest for a new flag for the city of Rochester, MN.) The cogwheel represents the automobile industry. [Posted by Ken Morton]

Yet another design for a Michigan state flag. The blue and white represent the water and the land, respectively. The 26 stars reference Michigan's status as the twenty-sixth state admitted to the Union. The large central star represents the bifurcated state. [Posted by Ken Morton]

Winner of the US State Flags - October 2018 competition for a new flag of Michigan State - collecting 79 votes of 215 cast for seven designs in the final.

Results Page of the "U.S. State Flags - Current, Historical and Proposed", Facebook page..

I'm going to get comments about this. [Posted by Ken Morton]

Redesign By Omega13Wolf, Uses the Blue, Green and Brown Pallet. The Deer is our state animal and the Stars are the peninsulas.

MI Flag Proposal "apollohawkridge"

Blue cross on white inversely represents the flags used by colonial French explorers in the state. Four dark blue legs of the cross represent the four Great Lakes surrounding the state. The green sections represent the upper and lower peninsulas of the state; with the star in the upper section representing Mackinac and the Lakes Huron-Michigan connection, with the star in the lower section representing Detroit and the Lakes Huron-Erie connection. The light blue sections represent the state’s major coasts on the southeast and northwest of the lower peninsula. Posted by Preston Knapp [1]

Proposal "scenery" for a flag for the state of Michigan, showing the colours and some elements (land, water, air and sun) from the state shield, in an abstract manner. By Qaz Dec 2019 (details)

Proposal of Michigan flag. The blue represents the great lakes that surround Michigan and perserverance. The Green in the center represents Michigan itself and growth and hope for a better future. The deer pays tribute to the current Michigan flag and it is the state game animal of Michigan. The brown of the deer stands for all the wildlife found in Michigan and the two stars recognize the Lower and upper penisula. The coppor coloring stands for all the natrual resources found in Michigan and for recognizes Michigans industrial background. Made by FlAgDeSiGnEr. Sorry for the low quality of the deer image I am still new to this.

The canton of the flag of the United States when Michigan was admitted to the Union in 1837. It contains 26 stars as Michigan is the 26th state to be admitted to the Union.

Proposed flag of Michigan. Inspired by the official shield of Michigan and the 13 stripes of the U.S. Flag. (Created by Nathaniel Tang)

Redesign by SimplisticFlags. January 2021. (details)

Michigan Flag Proposal- first made in November 2020 by Rebecca

Alternative version (proof given to me when I had it printed, but could always be different)

Overlays an image of the iconic Mackinac Bridge over the colors on the shield of the Michigan state seal

Slight variation - Bridge is Mackinac Green

See also

• Detroit, Michigan's largest city