I was missing something important before about the aspirational nature of a flag. While the star held something true about there being actually hard, knock-out problems to solve along the way, I think the inevitability of the star-less version is more suitably aspirational.
There is not one singular problem to solve, there are many, and the other shapes already hold that. With the star, I had put an oppositional teleology before the indefinite striving for betterment, and that was out of order. That was more ‘per ardua ad astra,’ “through adversity to the stars,” this is more ‘sic itur ad astra,’ “such is the way to the stars.” Let us not be defined by the battles we have won, but by the ideals we pursue, through and beyond whatever difficulty may come...
I’ve kept the star’s color. The hope is that the future is better in both quantity and quality, so having the color brighten as the area expands shows that it’s not just more of the same. I’m annoyed with the gradient technically, I think it breaks the simplicity rule of flag design by making it a lot harder to draw the flag from memory or print it in a standard way. Oh well. SVG here.
I was missing something important before about the aspirational nature of a flag. While the star held something true about there being actually hard, knock-out problems to solve along the way, I think the inevitability of the star-less version is more suitably aspirational.
There is not one singular problem to solve, there are many, and the other shapes already hold that. With the star, I had put an oppositional teleology before the indefinite striving for betterment, and that was out of order. That was more ‘per ardua ad astra,’ “through adversity to the stars,” this is more ‘sic itur ad astra,’ “such is the way to the stars.” Let us not be defined by the battles we have won, but by the ideals we pursue, through and beyond whatever difficulty may come...
I’ve kept the star’s color. The hope is that the future is better in both quantity and quality, so having the color brighten as the area expands shows that it’s not just more of the same. I’m annoyed with the gradient technically, I think it breaks the simplicity rule of flag design by making it a lot harder to draw the flag from memory or print it in a standard way. Oh well. SVG here.