Dick Frizzell Design I

I like this design. The abstract interpretation of the silver fern works quite well. It almost looks like you are lying on the ground looking up at the southern cross from beneath a silver fern. That's quite New Zealand.

Silver fern designs tend to get a bit fuzzy when shrunk to a small size, but this design manages to overcome that to a good extent. I'm not sure how identifiable it will be on a windless day though.

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Kyle Lockwood Design

This flag doesn't aesthetically appeal to me. The colours are too drab in my my opinion. Red and blue don't usually go well so close together. Perhaps a thicker fern to break apart the two colours might work.

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Mike Lloyd Design

I think the green in this design is too African. It looks particularly African in the small thumbnail size.

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Cameron Sanders Design I

To me this stylised silver fern looks like a rather flimsy paper dart.

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James Dignan Design

I'm not very excited about the blue in this design (or in the current flag). The silver fern in this design looks like a bloody knife of some sort.

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Union Fern

One half of the white part of the Union Jack is extended to resemble a silver fern.

I think it looks ugly in thumbnail size, and I doubt it will be easily recognised from a distance. But it should be recognisable enough when furled.

Fresh Green with Fern

Some New Zealanders don't like Maori imagery. Since it's impossible to represent all the ethnic groups of NZ in a flag, this flag doesn't have any red or blue (traditionally associated with Europe) nor any Koru or other Maori-esque imagery. It does however use the black and white colours which many New Zealanders have adopted for themselves. The green symbolises fresh-ness in environment and thinking. The silver fern used in this flag is more vertical than that used in sporting team logos and it is old fashioned so that it looks more like a fern than a feather. The Union Jack is also represented in this flag in white in recognition of the ties with Britain that NZ continues to have.

In minute thumbnail size it seems to look like a smear of some sort (a squashed insect?). But the colours are unique enough to be recognizable even when the flag is furled.