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Flag of Tomorrowland Music festival - Image by António Martins, 12 December 2023
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Tomorrowland is an electronic dance music festival held yearly since 2005 (with a gap in 2020-2021) at De Schorre provincial recreational park, in Boom, Belgium (Antwerp prov.). It’s been considered one of the largest and best renowned of its kind.
The logo of Tomorrowland includes a butterfly, a crown, and an eye — in a stylized symmetric depiction that has ubiquitous use in the festival’s promo and premises. Images of the logo (plain b/w): logo, logo.
António Martins, 12 December 2023
The flag of Tomorrowland shows its logo centered on a 2:3 background,
its outline filled in black with triple edging of amber / light orange
and white. The background is a axially symmetric gyronny pattern with
the diagonal gyrons narrower, divided white-black-white — this division
goes along lines that cross the center of the flag, so the black areas
are themsevels gyrons, not mere edging or fimbriation; the white gyrons
are continuous with the white area of the edging around the logo, and
their far ends, at the four corners of the flag, are topped each with a
triangular coryinthian fleuron of amber on maroon; the four larger
gyrons are filled with distinct patterns: At the fly, a whirly/wavy
pattern in two shades of blue with contour lines in a lighter shade of
blue, at the top, a maroon-contoured whispy/cloudy pattern in regular
and pale yellow, at the hoist, a stems-and-leaves motif in green on a
light green background outlined in dark green, and, at the bottom, red
flames (one single shade of red) outlined in amber. These four larger,
cardinal gyrons are themselves edged in amber all around (incl. along
the edge of the flag cloth), while the black gyrons bleed into the flag
edge; the black and white gyrons are also separated by amber edging. These four cardinal gyrons stand for the four elements of classic
Alchemy — water (blue), air (yellow), earth (green), and fire (red).
This flag is described (in its own section) in the English Wikipedia article about the festival (although not illustrated ). This flag is in itself a collector’s item sold for charity: «For every flag bought, Tomorrowland donates €5 to the Tomorrowland Foundation, a global charity aiming to teach music, dance, and arts to children across the globe», as quoted from the store page of the Music festival' website [source].
Flat images of the flag cloth/design: photo, photo, photo, photo.
Storage/packaging cloth purse to match: photo
Photos of this flag in use: photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo.
António Martins, 12 December 2023
The white gyrons look like hemp cigarettes.
Martin Karner & António Martins, 12 December 2023
Flags of local offshoots
Tomorrowland did spout a few offshoots elsewhere, and one of them, Tomorrowland
Brasil, used or uses still a similar flag: it is a variation of the national flag of Brazil, green with a large
yellow lozenge overall, and on it the festival logo in purple/maroon
with white edging and background. Tomorrowland Brasil was held in 2015, 2016, and (barely) 2023: photo, photo, photo of the flag.
Of these, the two which are photos of actual flags seem to use a shade
of green that is darker than the medium shade of green that is expected
for the national flag of Brazil — although wide variation occurs and
seems to be accepted.
António Martins, 12 December 2023
Flags defaced with the festival's logo
This Tomorrowland 2017 attendant is holding
a Basque flag with the festival logo, in black on white overall: photo.
It uses a simpler (or earlier?) version of this logo in which the eye is
not clearly defined, being just a filled contour that could be taken as
merely a part of the butterfly (its head). This flag seems otherwise to
be professionally printed, maybe mass produced.
This kind of “localized” festival flags are but a small part of the flag usage on display by attendants. Here’s a couple photos of what seems to be typical national flag displays by concert goers: photo, photo.
António Martins, 12 December 2023
