WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following website may contain images, video and voices of deceased persons.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following website may contain images, video and voices of deceased persons.
Our cultural illustrations are infused with the power of First Nations storytelling
Yirra Miya’s Cultural Illustration services are a testament to the power of visual storytelling, drawing on intuition from our ancestors, knowledge from our Elders, and guidance from our communities. We take you on the journey from developing the story, colour palettes (if required), and sketch development, through to the digitalised illustrations ready for you to embrace. Created by our First Nations Cultural Designers, our illustrations are more than just designs – they are bridges between past, present, and future.
Custom illustration capturing the story of your business which we develop with you. Includes the following:
Intended use of artwork can be for brand or program identity and used for printed and digital collateral, and promotional items (excluding use on merchandise for commercial retail/profit).
Intended use of elements for business/organisation purposes for brand or program identity, for printed and digital collateral, and promotional items (excluding use on merchandise for commercial retail/profit).
Intended use of elements for business/organisation purposes for brand or program identity, for printed and digital collateral, and promotional items (excluding use on merchandise for commercial retail/profit).
File deliverables and inclusions are reflected in our Services and Pricing Guide in our Welcome Package. All artworks and elements intellectual property rights (IPR) are retained by Yirra Miya with exclusive perpetual licence for the agreed intended use.
Our Cultural illustration artworks and element packages are rooted in your business/organisation’s core values, which represent vital pillars crucial to your key messaging. The individual elements we design are embedded with layers of deep meaning and significance related to what we discover during your onboarding & brainstorming session with us. You may already have ideas for the story you would like to tell, or different pillars you would like to represent, however we can also support this development to aid our understanding.
Depending on capacity in our creative calendar, we like to explore having two First Nations Cultural Designers develop a concept sketch to present for selection. This is presented as a non-coloured and non-digitalised concept and focuses more on the story development. This is in recognition that our Cultural Designers may draw upon your key messages with different approaches when translating this into their cultural art style. This will be provided with a colour palette that is conceptualised during sketch development. If you don’t have a brand colour palette established or required for the illustrations, we will develop colour palette options during this stage.
Once you select/approve a concept sketch, your artist will move forward into the next stage of digitalising your artwork or elements. This is where your story will come to life with colour, with 2 revisions included for colour changes. For cultural artworks, once the colour variation is approved, we will pull out a selection of elements that we refer to as ‘pulled elements’ and share their meanings for you to pick from.
Once the full-colour artwork or elements are approved, depending on your package inclusion, we may need to share through one final PDF presentation for review. This final PDF showcases if the elements are reversed-out and set up in monochrome (single) colour using the selected brand/artwork colours. Once this final step is approved, our team packages them into the files agreed upon within the scope of work and package. This will be provided alongside an Illustrations Overview PDF reflecting the designs, their meanings, and insights into what is deemed as appropriate use whilst maintaining their integrity and the intellectual property rights retained by our team.
We offer digitalisation of artists’ cultural artworks to allow them the opportunity to be shared in a commercial setting and meet client needs for ‘vector’ artworks.
This service is subject to approval by our Creative Director for requests from businesses/organisations requiring this scope for a commissioned artwork they have received from an artist. Yirra Miya prioritises leading with respect and integrity to ensure cultural protocol and practice considerations are always in mind. Therefore, we will require written confirmation on who owns the intellectual property of the artwork or any licencing terms before quotation.
We require written permission and consultation with the artist when intellectual property rights are retained by them. We also strongly encourage this consultation when the artist has transferred the rights in acknowledgement of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).
Our goal is to replicate the artwork to be a close duplication of the works, including all the finer details, colours and layers. Therefore, it is a requirement to see the full artwork before quoting. This can be a timely process as we do not use an ‘image tracing’ tool in our digitalisation process, we find the ‘pen tool’ allows an appropriate form to ensure we individualise each element and shape, and to ensure the cultural artworks authenticity remains.
Hover over the images to see before and after vectorisation
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following website may contain images, video and voices of deceased persons.
