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Balarinji is Australia’s most highly awarded and longest-running Indigenous design studio. Since 1983 Balarinji has created contemporary design excellence from Indigenous culture and narratives.

Aboriginal-owned, with origins in Yanyuwa culture from the Northern Territory, Balarinji’s work authentically engages with and reflects the philosophies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, art and stories. Balarinji began on a kitchen table in Adelaide before it became an iconic studio that has worked all around Australia and in Japan, the UK, France and the US. It is best known for covering Qantas aircrafts in Aboriginal art, with six aircraft deliveries making up the Qantas-Balarinji Flying Art Series 1994–2024.

Balarinji’s nation building design projects include Australia’s Nation Brand, the official poster for the 2000 Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk for Reconciliation, the Australian team uniforms for the Rio 2016 Paralympics, and many others. The studio has also created designs for some of the world’s most well-known international brands, including British Airways, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Nespresso.