Bringing First Nations languages into the classroom.

Baraya Barray means Sing Country in the Gathang language. It’s part of Red Room Poetry’s First Languages program, which revives First Nations languages through poetry workshops in schools. The Whale Song series takes the East Coast’s whale migration as its starting point for storytelling and cultural connection.
Client
Red Room Poetry
Year
2024
Scope
Brand Design, Aboriginal Art
Baraya Barray Whale Song logo and visual identity, with First Nations pattern work tracing the whales' east coast migration
Logo design
The identity is built around the whales’ migration – the pattern traces their movement through each phase of the journey. The colour palette is pulled from the ocean’s shifting tones and the coastline. The cultural element sits inside the logo’s ‘Y’, so the story is carried in the mark itself, and the program explains itself wherever it turns up.
The Baraya Barray website shown on a laptop, carrying the whale migration pattern across the page
Website banner design
The Baraya Barray logo and pattern work printed on a navy t-shirt
T-shirt design
Baraya Barray social media post templates pairing poetry with the whale migration pattern
Instagram social templates
A Baraya Barray feather flag banner for the Whale Song program
Workshop banner
A Baraya Barray tote bag carried on the street, printed with the logo and whale migration pattern
Tote bag
Pages from the Baraya Barray brand guidelines, covering logo use, colour palette, pattern work and merchandise
Brand guidelines
The Baraya Barray artwork applied as a large format mural along a shopfront window
Mural
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