Characters, places, food, transport, objects or symbols of Mexico City in 200 emoji result of a public tender. Share the CDMX from your keyboard.

The CDMX is the first city in the world to create collectively, from a public tender, a pack of emojis representative of the megalopolis.

Emoji CDMX was a call organized by the Laboratory for the City with the support of The Lift, Mexico Design Week, Studio 7 and the Mexican Open Design as allies.

In this open to all citizens contest around 100 proposals packages emoticons representative of Mexico City were received.

From nearly 2,000 iconic images inspired by CDMX 60 smileys for the first three places of the competition met:

Itzel Oropeza.
Eduardo Camacho and Pedro Grajeda.
Ivonne Torres and Martin Cook.

140 smileys honorable mentions and a choice of prime minister, Miguel Angel Mancera were also included:

Eric Riviello Francisco Huerta and Denisse Hernandez Delgado.
Gabriela Luna López, Ixchel Xala Xutzi, Guillermo Linares Hernandez and Daniel Dominguez.
Irvyn Gustavo García Rojo.
Maria Angelica Maria Santa-Daffuchio, Joel Ortiz Arroyo, Manuel de Jesus Montaño León and Luis Quintero Ortiz.
Mario Flores Vargas.
Laura Navarro.
Vanessa Gabriela Salgado Palomo.

Open competition juries Emoji CDMX were:

Zoe Mendelson.
Fred Benenson.
Oscar Estrada de la Rosa.
Federico Jordan.
Jennifer Lee.

Emoji CDMX functions as a social thermometer that facilitates narrating the city, understand a capital that constantly creates new meanings or referents. In addition, it grants a current reference for the city tell ourselves and others.

Legal Area

The authors of the images that make up Emoji CDMX rights ceded to the government of Mexico City. Thus, the smileys in this app can be freely used on instant messaging platforms. Out of these, his marketing is prohibited in any printed or digital media.