Balarinji

Balarinji is Australia’s most highly awarded and foremost Indigenous design and strategy agency. Since 1983 Balarinji has amplified Indigenous culture and narratives for a new shared Australian identity through design excellence. An Aboriginal-owned agency with its origins in Yanyuwa culture, Balarinji’s multidisciplinary work comes from authentic engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culture, art, stories and identity. Balarinji’s national and international work for public and private sectors spans urban regeneration, major infrastructure, precinct planning, branding campaigns, public art and curatorial projects, interiors and digital design. Balarinji is known for its many iconic and nation-building design projects, including the Balarinji-Qantas Flying Art Series, featuring six aircraft with Aboriginal artwork liveries between 1994 and 2024. Balarinji is widely recognised for cultural design and sustainability excellence and is the winner of the Good Design Australian Design Prize, Design Institute of Australia President’s Award, and The Design Studio Award from INDE.Awards. In the 2023 Financial Review Sustainability Leaders list, Balarinji was shortlisted and ranked by Boston Consulting Group in the top 13% of Australian companies making a positive social impact. The National Museum of Australia holds Balarinji’s design archive and the John Moriarty Collection. Balarinji is also represented in the collections of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney and the Centre for Contemporary Graphic Design, Fukuoka, Japan. In 2012, Balarinji’s founders established Indigenous children’s charity, Moriarty Foundation. This life-changing solution to closing social disparity reaches 2,200+ Indigenous children in 18 remote and regional communities through its two interrelated programs, John Moriarty Football (soccer) for 2-18 year olds, and Indi Kindi early learning from birth to 5 year olds.