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This flag ignores the history and culture of Iraq.
The flag of Iraq is based on the Arab Liberation Flag, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Liberation_Flag , and this flag looks more european than arab.
Your flag also lack any green color, which in Islam represents Islam itself, life, nature and paradise.
Here you can read more about the meaning of color in Islam: https://nakkasboytu.com/blogs/islamic-decor/islamic-colors
I am also not sure what the red symbol represents....
Most of the proposed flags have the color blue as a symbol of Sumer Civilization, Euphrates and Tigris, the sky of mesopotamia. The other three colors I picked from the 1959 Flag. While the symbol in the middle may look like a meaningless logo it represents both the national flower of Iraq and the star of Ishtar while also expressing the twin rivers of iraq with two white strips.
Interesting, thank you for the explanation!
I still believe that the bars should be horizontal rather than vertical, and that there should be some green on the flag.
I do agree, green is a primary color in the arab revolt flag.
I'm no professional designer I just learned inkscape lately and thought it would be fun to redesign flags and logos in the process.
The divisions in the red symbol remind me of the Tigris and Euphrates, one from the North and one from the East, nearly meeting around Bagdad and both contributing to a nearly-singular green belt from there South to the Persian Gulf.
I'm not sure, but the Sunni, Shia, and Kurds may be distributed in a similar pattern, allthough not-at-all deliniated by the rivers.
Apparently an eight-pointed star is a powerful symbol in Islam, but exaggerating the points like in OP's flag is not something I've seen in that context.
I would second the idea that an Iraqi flag without green doesn't sit right. Its literally the only color in their current flag I could tell you the meaning of.
emo Italian flag sharing ravioli
Sponsored by DPD?
For real though unless it's both a simple and already recognisable symbol, or doesn't belong on a state or national flag...
There's of course allowances for local culture and history, eg. standards vs flags in Britain & Ireland - Wales is the only one to use their standard rather than flag though, first nations flags being more complex, traditional chinese flags + bhutan having more complex symbols, but taking a complex symbol and reducing it down to something oversimplified breaks both the rules of the symbols being recognisable and of the symbols being conceptually simple - it'd be better to just put a detailed rose, otherwise it just looks like a corporate logo: all you'd be missing is some royalty free corporate nothing music as the national anthem
That's right it feels oversimplified, yet, a bloated symbol at the same time, maybe I did challenge myself to express alot in the most simplified form.
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