My submission for the Banffshire flag contest

The story behind my winning design for the flag of Gilbert, West Virginia

Less common flag colours: teal/turquoise

Superellipse: a shield shape for our age?

7 February 2009: Bolivia adopts the Wiphala as a national symbol alongside its tricolour

7 February 1974: Grenada becomes independent from the UK and adopts a new flag

7 February 1941: Halland County in Sweden is granted arms and a flag

6 February 1985: The Canadian Flag Association is founded

5 February 1975: The Dutch city of Amsterdam officially adopts a flag

12 February 1992: The province of Misiones in Argentina officially readopts its historical flag

5 February 1997: Magallanes Region, Chile, adopts a flag recalling its geography

5 February 1991: Azerbaijan readopts the flag of its pre-Soviet independent republic

5 February 1918: The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, adopts a flag for its bicentenary

Flags with suggested letters

4 February 1995: The German Society for Vexillology is founded

4 February 1998: The UN High Representative chooses a new flag for Bosnia and Herzegovina when the parties involved can’t agree on one

4 February 1948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from the United Kingdom and adopts its historic Lion Flag

3 February 1995: The Italian region of Tuscany officially adopts a flag

3 February 1964: The city of St Louis, Missouri, adopts a new flag to commemorate its bicentennial

3 February 1911: The US state of California adopts a flag modelled on the Bear Flag raised by the short-lived California Republic

2 February 1999: Kyiv Region in Ukraine adopts a flag depicting Saint George and the dragon

2 February 2023: The French overseas department of Martinique officially adopts the nationalist movement's Rouge-Vert-Noir

1 February 1962: Whitney Smith founds the Flag Research Center, the first institution dedicated to the scholarly study of flags

Opinion: People are approaching flag design backwards.

1 February 1995: The Uruguayan department of Río Negro adopts a flag