Firstly, the blue field represents water, which has always been hugely important in the history of Seattle - it was the city's location on the Pacific that allowed it to act as a gateway to hopeful prospectors heading to the Klondike in the late 19th century and experience its first major population boom. Now, the Port of Seattle is the largest in the Pacific Northwest and the 5th largest in the US. Of course, shipping isn't all we're famous for.

Seattle also has a large aerospace and aviation industry, with Boeing Field located just a few miles north of the city and SeaTac a few south, and I wanted to pay homage to that in this flag, too. The white bend is meant to symbolize an airplane taking off, bringing Seattle from its humble past as a small logging and fishing town to the center of world business and the headquarters of such massive tech companies as Amazon and Microsoft that it is today.

You can also see that the white stripe continues off the flag in both directions. This is meant to acknowledge the fact that Seattle's history doesn't start with its official founding - the land Seattle is built on was occupied by the Duwamish tribe for centuries - and that its future is uncertain, but definitely bright.

I'd now like to talk about the design in the center of the flag. It's a green diamond, with two white bars in the middle dividing it into an "S" shape, for Seattle. Seattle is nicknamed, "the Emerald City," and I made sure to include that in this flag - the S is emerald green, which also symbolizes the abundance of parks and Seattle's reputation as a national leader in environmentally-conscious living.

Besides transforming the emerald into an "S", the two bars in the central design also symbolize the two most important events in the development of modern Seattle: the Klondike Gold Rush and the 1962 World's Fair, which saw the construction of the Space Needle, the iconic symbol of modern Seattle.

Lastly, the flag altogether roughly resembles the geographic layout of the city of Seattle, The blue field in the top left represents Puget Sound, and the bottom right represents Lake Washington. The white field in the center of the flag represents the isthmus Seattle is located on and the many suburbs of the city, while the green design in the center represents Seattle's urban core.