Poly-nation

This project was a lot of fun. I was very happy to help my little niece with her class project at her preschool. My brother asked me if I could design something that would be representative of his daughter’s class and school. Given that her school celebrates diversity, and her small class is a testament to it, I decided to go down that route. In this project, I asked my niece and her classmates to paint the national flowers that each represented. I also asked them to handstamp the country flags behind each one of them with hand paint. For example, my niece painted the Corn Poppy and Maga flowers and also handstamped the Polish and Puerto Rican flags since her parents are from Poland and Puerto Rico. My brother scanned all the colored sheets and forwarded them to me. With these, I designed the final graphic, including the positioning of the flowers, the color scheme, and typography.

This piece captures our Young 2’s class cultural mix, which is representative of the school’s beautiful diversity. The flowers represent the national flowers behind each child in the class.
– Pablo Ríos

This project was for a Garden House School Annual Cocktail Benefit.