occupant of Mexico City will shortly have a whole new fix ofemojisto utilization when talking about their city . AsCityLabreports , the success of the Emoji CDMX competition were announced on August 1 , crowning new icons to describe the twenty-first - century metropolis .
set in motion inJune 2017by the municipal governance ’s observational Laboratory for the City , the competitor ask designers to represent Mexico City in 20 small symbols . Almost 100 designers fill part , reconcile 2000 emoji designs for considerateness . ( Technically , the symbols are stickers , not emojis , since you ’ll have to download an app to use them , but emoji is a much more placeable full term , so we ’ll go with it . )
The emoji designs render often let in some of the same musical theme and topics , admit Frida Kahlo ; the Mexican walking fish , ajolote ; Tamale ; the Aztec god Tlaloc ; and the landmark Latin American Tower .
WhileFinlandhas launched its own official national emoji , Mexico City is the first metropolis to do so , and the first to hold an open rival for the design . The Emoji CDMX app will be available for Io and Android in September , with a total of 240 available designs .
[ h / tCityLab ]
