Nation flags

After much debate and many iterations, these are our final flag designs for all six product Nations at MYOB.

The brief was to design a family of six flags, each that represented a single nation (ie a large internal project team, made up of many smaller teams) with feedback and input from the nation members, but also worked as a family. The idea was that the flags felt like they could endure in the tech space, so the designs differentiated somewhat from country flags.

Flags are often steeped in history and the reference was a combination of early math & accounting, so the final concept was based around the abacus. We combined the abacus shapes to form elements we felt best represented each Nation, whilst giving each Nation its own unique colour to help differentiate it from the others.

And big ups to Roman Mar's Ted Talk on solid flag design principles to help guide the way.