Personal work meant to explore the aesthetic of the WPA Posters that were commonplace in the 1930s United States under the New Deal, although it's largely based off of a Mexican WWII recruitment poster. I wanted to shed light on the barely spoken about Ilongo revolutions of November 1898 which get drowned out from the conversation in Philippine history.
The figures are, with foot on the island of Panay, Gen. Martín Teófilo Delgado y Bermejo of Santa Barbara, Iloílo, representing the Estado Federal de Bisayas, and, with foot on the island of Negros, Gen. Juan Anacleto Araneta y Torres of Bago, Negros Occidental, representing the Gobierno Cantonal de Negros, sometimes referred to as the República de Negros. The shining cross at the center is a reference to the same cross on the seal of Ciudad de Iloílo, the most important city in the island of Panay back then and for a time, the designated capital of the Estado Federal de Bisayas.
The text at the bottom is in Hiligaynón, the native tongue of the Ilongos, and it translates as "Remember the 5th and 17th of November 1898", the respective dates of the revolutions in Negros and Iloílo.
This was overall really fun to do and it's not a style I'm used to doing.
The fonts I used for this were Kagitingan by Freedom Fonts PH and the Bantayog Typeface by John David Maza.
