Minnesota State Flag

The State of Minnesota set out to establish a new official Minnesota state flag. The State Emblems Redesign Commission took public submissions, but had less than 2 months to select and finalize a design before the legislative deadline for Minnesota’s new flag design.

Tyler Michaletz & I reached out to the SERC Commission with a report of our analysis of the submissions, and to offer our assistance in the refinement and selection process for the new Minnesota state flag. We also provided public testimony to the Commission advocating for a refinement process before selecting a final design. We began working with them to visualize alternatives to the seal design, another task of the commission, and then began working on the flag. This involved consulting and collaborating with commission members and members of NAVA, Ted Kaye & Brian Cham. Our time collaborating with everyone in this process was an amazing journey.

The design refinement phase began with adjusting and presenting our recommended design alterations to the commission based on the selected final 3 flag designs at the December 15th SERC meeting. This resulted in the selection of a single original design by Andrew Prekker. After this, and further consultation with Ted Kaye, Brian Cham, Luis Fitch, and Aaron Whitnebel we made and presented variations based on the commission’s requests, adjustments, and refinements to the spacing, colors, and composition of the design. After this we had one more round of revisions and presented our final recommendation for the new Minnesota state flag design at the final in-person SERC meeting where they selected our recommended design alteration.

After the final selection was made, we worked with Commission member Kim Jackson to finalize the flag design for their final report. This included working through construction diagrams, to ensure consistent construction based on industry standards. The report was submitted by the New Years deadline. On May 11th, Minnesota’s Statehood Day, the new Minnesota state flag design has been formally adopted.