Hinckley, OH Flag

Have you even seen a poorly designed flag and wondered, "Oh my gosh why would anyone think this looks good?" Well Roman Mars's talk about designing a good flag is the video for you!

My small hometown of Hinckley, Ohio already has a flag designed for it, and there is approximately one picture of it on the Internet.  Here it is:

The flag is pretty well designed, and I think it is nice to look at, but the finer details are not that memorable.  Since I do not look at it that often, all I could remember about it before I Googled it was that it had blue and white stripes.  Therefore, I propose this new flag for Hinckley:

I used the five rules for flag making to design my flag.  The design is simple, just two colors with a buzzard centered in the middle.  The buzzard is kind of complicated, but that is due to the fact that I cannot draw so I had to copy one from the Internet, and there are not very many simple buzzard drawings floating around.  If I could have possibly made it simpler, I would have. I have used meaningful symbolism with the colors and the buzzard.  The green represents the Hinckley Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks, which is a large park where many outdoor recreational activities take place.  The blue represents Hinckley Lake, which is the big, beautiful lake within the boundaries of the Metroparks. The buzzard is the main part of the flag, because it is the most important to Hinckley.  Every year on March 17th, the buzzards come back to Hinckley, and there is a festival, and it is known internationally by certain bird enthusiasts.  Hinckley is known as the "Home of the Buzzards,"  so I think that the buzzard is an important element to have on the flag.  I did not include the name of the city, because the flag should be recognizable enough to not need it.  It is very distinctive, because there is no other place like Hinckley, where the buzzards soar around our homes come every March 17th.