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Indigenous Earth
Hayley Whitehead

This is an archived design
from MYM season 20.

Artist's comments

Hayley Whitehead talks about the design:

This Theme I found very difficult. Trying to incorporate all Indigenous people, and represent them in the same image was not easy, they are all so different! I didn't want to just focus on Australia or only New Zealand. There is soo much more! So I tried thinking more generally. What do all Indigenous people share? Very often it is the connection with the Earth and Nature, they also value peace highly. My design shows the Earth, surrounded by the busyness and constant movement of the world we live in now, combined with the symbol of the "Indalo" (a carving found in a cave believed to date back around 4500 years, which depicts a man holding a rainbow over his head) placed upon the Earth and within a Peace sign. The Indalo Figure is embracing the planet. I used the Indalo Figure to represent all Indigenous people. Made 100% by me in Photoshop CS4

Comments

JIJI, at 5:55PM on Aug 27, 2010
love the design! i think its very creative, especially like your explanation of it
Good job :) Voted 5 stars, keep it up!

Alvin, at 5:59PM on Aug 27, 2010
I love this!!! Great work, this is awesome, peace sign + indalo = genius

Cartophilic, at 7:03PM on Aug 27, 2010
The is amazing! Love it! The Indalo IS the International symbol of Indigenous people! Great fusion with the peace sign and earth!

treecanopies, at 10:55PM on Aug 29, 2010
beautiful :) well done :) I learnt more about the indigenous world from that paragraph and design than i have from anything else in quite some time

~pekshie~, at 5:22PM on Sep 1, 2010
Wow love the shirt!!! I luv the colour and the meaning behind it.

Hebie, at 8:38AM on Sep 2, 2010
I think that design really incorporates theme while also being a shirt that people would actually wear, which not a lot have done! So good job i voted 5 on this :D

KOSWAABI, at 5:37PM on Sep 2, 2010
wow it is so amazingly awesome... i wish it was as cool as mine... great work p

Davein, at 8:13PM on Sep 2, 2010
Cool Hayley, I like all the colours and the design. It actually works really well on a T-shirt. The indalo man with the peace symbol is a great way of celebrating the indigenous people and the world. It's awesome how it's all in one symbol.
Yeah. =) I'd wear this one!

AlyH123, at 6:41PM on Sep 6, 2010
wow, thats amazing :)

EJgnomes, at 1:26AM on Sep 9, 2010
Pretty nice. :-)

struthiruthi, at 4:28PM on Sep 9, 2010
i love this! it is so cool and awesome combination of bright colours! good work :D

shazzy, at 4:38PM on Sep 9, 2010
this is really creative i would definitely wear your shirt!

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