{"id":8732,"date":"2020-10-19T19:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T02:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T18:48:06","slug":"harvey-mudd-student-co-designs-new-salt-lake-city-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2020\/10\/19\/harvey-mudd-student-co-designs-new-salt-lake-city-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Student Co-designs New Salt Lake City Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A lifetime of enjoying the mountains, skiing and national parks in southern Utah inspired the design Arianna Meinking \u201924 developed for her hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah. Meinking and Ella Kennedy-Yoon, high school classmates, are co-designers of the city\u2019s new flag, adopted last month by the Salt Lake City Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designs for the new flag were selected from over 600 entries and narrowed to eight images that best demonstrated the key principles of good flag design: keep it simple, use meaningful symbolism, use two to three basic colors, no lettering or seals, and be distinctive or be related. The public rated the finalists and narrowed the field to two top designs: those of Meinking and Kennedy-Yoon, an alumnae and senior of Salt Lake\u2019s West High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a lengthy selection process, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall on Thursday, Sept. 24 2020, submitted a final design proposal for the new Salt Lake City flag to be considered by the Salt Lake City Council. The final design combined elements from two highest-rated finalists into one new design. This finalist design, which includes a white and golden-yellow sego lily centered on an isosceles triangle of deep blue, under sky blue triangles, designed by Salt Lake City resident Arianna Meinking, 18.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After a lengthy selection process, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall on Thursday, Sept. 24 2020, submitted a final design proposal for the new Salt Lake City flag to be considered by the Salt Lake City Council. The final design combined elements from two highest-rated finalists into one new design. This design, which included a stylized black honeybee overlaying a golden honeycomb, was designed by Salt Lake City resident Ella Kennedy-Yoon, 17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was decided that the blue and white backdrop (from Kennedy-Yoon\u2019s design, top)\u2014which could symbolize snow, the sky, the Great Salt Lake and salt\u2014would pair best with the sego lily (from Meinking\u2019s design, bottom), a flower indigenous to the area, and which symbolizes resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause so much of my childhood and what I love about Salt Lake City hinges on nature, I knew I’d want to incorporate a natural symbol into my design, and I quickly settled on the sego lily as a symbol,\u201d says Meinking, who is considering majoring in physics at Harvey Mudd. \u201cMy fourth-grade teacher taught us about the importance of the sego lily bulbs to both the pioneers and the Native Americans, so the sego lily also naturally brought together different key groups of Salt Lake’s history, representing all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a once-in-a-generation moment of change, and there\u2019s no more perfect time for our city to unite under a new symbol that personifies and unites us all,\u201d said Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall in a news release announcing the new flag design. \u201cI believe this is the design that can take us forward, together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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