In about an hour, Malaysia would turn 51.
It’s time we cherish the moment, put aside all our differences, our insufficiencies, our beliefs, and celebrate what we all have in common — being proud citizens of Malaysia.
This year, tehCpeng.net would be paying tribute to Mohamad Hamzah, an architect, who 61 years ago, designed Malaysia’s national flag. I guess nobody would be more proud to have his own design paraded all over the country 24/7 for 51 whole years.
It’s every designer’s wet dream I tell you.
Like this humongous one erected only once a year every Merdeka month atop the Sultan Iskandar Building.
To commemorate his achievement, I tried to replicate how would his sketch look like as he made a proposal for a flag design competition held in 1947. Okay — he might not have used English in his sketches, and the Jalur Gemilang isn’t known as the Jalur Gemilang until 1997.
Also, Mohamad Hamzah first designed his flag to have a five-pointed star instead of the 14-pointed one on the flags we see flying today.
So for today’s sake, let’s just assume he did all that on his sketches.
Happy 51st Birthday Malaysia!
Sweet design. =)
Man… by the day.. I find your designs really inspiring and fantastic. Wish I could have those design skills of y
@Eli James, Thank you. =D
@cdason, Wow you should stop praising me like that. =P I’m fast running out of ways to say “Thank you, I appreciate it” XD
Guess I just said it.
I think that guy copied the American flag when he drew the red and white stripes, haha…kidding!
Now that’s a matter of much controversial debate! Frankly though, I have no idea of the significance of it being similar to the Stars and Stripes. =(
*correction* Happy 45th Birthday, Malaysia. XD
Happy 51th Birthday to Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. XD
(its a complicated design and i fumed in silence everytime im asked to draw and colour the flag when i was a kid.) XD
*correction of correction* Happy 51st Birthday, Persekutuan Tanah Melayu.
Malaysia’s birthday isn’t until the 16th of September. =P
That is, if you wanna get really picky about the dates. XD
And yea, I never get that 14-pointed star right! It was really a nightmare to draw. =(
To those who question or said it was copied from the US flag. Please take note. It was not copied from the US flag.… It was based on the British East India Company flag which was once active in Malaya… and BEIC existed long before the US was formed and gained independence… Therefore one could also say that the US copied their flag from the BEIC flag.… So now who copied from who???
Refer to these links…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Malaysia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
The similarity to US flag or the fact why Tunku chose the design is because Tunku was very anti communist and strongly supported the pro Western Bloc which was led by USA. Therefore he naturally chose the design to show to the world Malaya’s political stand and support at that time… And the chosen flag was endorsed by King George VI… so what’s the problem now after so many years it was accepted by all (internally and internationally).… Haiz.….
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