Mexican Flag Holiday 2021

Year: 2021 / Client: Mexican Consulate at Salt Lake City / Tools: InDesign, Photoshop

On 24 February, Mexico celebrates their Flag Day, an official day to observe the importance of the National Flag as one of the strongest symbols of the Mexican identity. To commemorate it, I created an illustration that evoques the historical events that shaped the Flag that is used to this day, while sticking to the 4:7 proportions, the National colours and the Coat of Arms.

The final product is a mosaic that contains abstractions of key historical events of national prominence, with colour gradients inspired by the Mexican Muralist movement of the early 20th century.

Black
White
4x7 grid
The Mexica migration towards the Anahuac Valley and the Texcoco Lake.
The decline of Mesoamerica and the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, the Mexica capital in 1521.
The eagle and the snake from the National Coat of Arms, inspired by the legend of Tenochtitlan's foundation.
The Spanish colony in yellow, the War of Independence in red.
The Second Mexican Empire and the War of Reform.
The Porfiriat Dictatorship and the 1910 Revolution.

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