Pride Diamond design project

It’s Pride Month, and I decided to take on a self-initiated project: design a new symbol that could combine and show as many of the aspects of the various Pride flag symbols, and give all of the colors the same amount of emphasis and meaning. Looking over all of the various Pride flags, I decided to expand my grid from 11 to 12 color units, which allowed me to group and combine in a slightly more balanced form and include representation from nearly every flag. The form became a rotated square/diamond shape, and wanting to keep the arrow motif of earlier sketches, I also decided to add the original pink colors that were the very start of the gay/queer movements. With these final iterations, here’s my concept: the left hand two pink arrow elements point back, reminding us to know the history, and all the other colors point forward, reminding us to move forward in knowing where we need to go and what the future can be.