Minnesota officially has new state flag design 01:56. MINNEAPOLIS — The panel tasked with replacing key state symbols finalized the new flag on Tuesday after four months of discussion and ...

Five Guiding Principles of Flag Design. To start with, “You can’t please everybody,” Mr. Kaye said. ... which features a large eagle and the state name on a white background, ...

Minnesota's State Emblems Redesign Commission voted 11-1 to approve a new flag design, ... Minnesota's name is derived from a Sioux word meaning "sky-tinted water," says the website for the Bureau ...

Commission narrows flag designs to top three 01:54. ST. PAUL, Minn. ... Instead, they opted to include "Mni Sota Makoce," the Dakota word from which the state gets its name.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — He made more than 50 designs of a new Minnesota state flag before submitting the allowed three. Even then, Andrew Prekker of Luverne said he wasn’t convinced he had ...

As Ted Kaye, author of Good Flag, Bad Flag: How to Design a Great Flag, explained, "If you need to write the name of what your representing on your flag, your symbolism has failed." ...

Illinois could soon see a new state flag as part of a contest from the Illinois Secretary of State, which was whittled to 10 ...

The 2006 alumnus of Pittsfield High School said he went on his first instincts before entering the city's recent flag contest. "I did about five different designs and then went back to my first idea ...

Over the coming months, the newly formed Spokane Flag Commission will undoubtedly review a deluge of designs for a new city flag. But one thing almost everyone appears to agree on is that Spokane ...

All are welcome to take part in the contest. There are criteria, all of which are based on the North American Vexillogogical Association’s five basic principles of flag design, O’Roak said.

Photos: Illinois flag design proposals released by commission. ... with a small addition of the state’s name added in 1970, according to the Flag Commission’s website.

Editor’s Note: The video in this story is from a previous report. After thousands of submissions, 10 finalists and nearly 385,000 votes, the state of Illinois may not have a new flag after all.