Instead, his preferred flag portrays a white Southern Cross on the black night sky, separated from green land and sea by a "Maori design element referencing the first people of New Zealand" - the white koru swirl representing the long white cloud and whitecaps on water.
This flag won a people's choice award in a Devonport gallery's Flag It! exhibition last year which attracted 40 designs for a new national flag.
Two other versions Frizzell has put forward contain stars that are red instead of white, and one has a blue sky, which with the red was, he said, a "nod" to the colouring of the present flag.
His designs are among more than 150 that have been offered to the Government-appointed panel that will pick four, from which a national referendum will choose one for a binding public run-off vote against the present flag.
Silver ferns, the Southern Cross and kiwi patterns feature widely. Versions of the Union Jack are popular as one element on many flags too, although some have lost their original British colours and have gained koru flourishes.
Two versions of Kyle Lockwood's design, a runner-up in the Devonport exhibition, have been submitted.
It contains a silver fern and Southern Cross.
The flag-choosing panel is seeking public submissions - and will hold 20 workshops - on what values should be incorporated in a new flag.
The chairman, Emeritus Professor John Burrows, QC, said values cited so far included tolerance, respect, clean green image and New Zealand as an independent country.
"Messages like that are beginning to come through. When we get a lot of those together I think it will help people to see whether we can design a flag which reflects that.
"It will help the panel when it has to select four ... NZME
