Three healthcare workers in orange uniforms smile for a group photo in a clinic, with a dark blue banner reading 'Clinical Support Team' and colorful decorative patterns nearby.
Nurse administers a vaccine to a patient in a clinic, with a bold immunisations banner in the background
Homepage hero for a health services site: a dark blue panel with the heading 'Integrated Team Care' and decorative circular graphics, followed by a photo of three people with a wheelchair and care supplies outside a building.
Two smartphones show different pages of an Aboriginal health services site: left screen displays a dark blue warning page with 'Warning' and a 'Continue' button, right screen shows a 'Work for Us' page with a smiling woman photo at the bottom.

Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services Aboriginal Corporation

Bespoke design elements | Website UX/UI | Community engagement

Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services Aboriginal Corporation (GYHSAC) is an Aboriginal community-controlled health service delivering primary health care services within the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire.
The organisation was seeking a new brand artwork and new website to promote their service within the Yarrabah community. The new website needed to encompass promoting the work Gurriny Yealamucka has done within the community over time and the ongoing services for the community.

The Design.

Working closely with Aunty Philomena Yeatman, we photographed, compiled and digitised the original artwork entitled Woven Remedies, from her initial sketches, transforming it into a suite of digital design assets that could be used consistently across the health service's promotional materials.
We then collaborated with staff to bring the organisation's website to life, incorporating elements of the artwork throughout the design. The result is a visually engaging and culturally respectful website that highlights the organisation's health programs and wrap-around services, making it easier for the local community to access information and support.

The Revolution.

The new digital creatives and website received an overwhelmingly positive response from both stakeholders and the Yarrabah community. The refreshed visual identity and supporting collateral reinvigorated the organisation, providing staff with a contemporary brand that reflects Gurriny's vision and strengthens the delivery of its services.

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Meriam (Erub)

Sheree Jacobs

Sheree is a Torres Strait Islander woman, born in Cairns, Far North Queensland with  links to Erub Island in the Torres Strait. Sheree has worked for a number of regional and international not-for-profit organisations delivering programs to support social impact and outcomes.

Sheree possesses Master in Communications, from Griffith University. Her roles in Design, Marketing and Communications encompasses supporting First Nations storytelling and digital and print works for government and non-government organisations.

“Art and design can tell stories in ways that can be understood universally. Sometimes words are not enough. Art and design is something that can reach and move people, communicate ideas and thoughts in new ways.:

Qualifications
Master of Communications, Griffith University
Associate in Project Management CAPM

Yirrganydji

Tarquin Singleton

Tarquin is an Aboriginal creative who joined the project in 2021. In addition to illustration and design, Tarquin has worked on Country as a Yirrganydji ranger and in cultural engagement for many years. His design work is a combination of traditional Aboriginal art and modern and western art. Tarquin draws his inspiration for his designs from Bulmba (Country), Kulbul (Sea country) and Bulurru (Lore, Creator, Culture).

“Yirrganydji country is located from Cairns to Port Douglas making us rainforest and saltwater people. Growing up in two world heritage areas - the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics Rainforest is something to be proud of and has heavily influenced my work. My designs are heavily influenced by my heritage and combine the elements from traditional Indigenous art with modern art.

What is good about IndigeDesignLabs is that we can work in a studio environment to bounce ideas off each other. Working as a mentor is good because it keeps me learning new skills and being able to teach those skills is a rewarding experience.”

Kanolu and Gungarri

Leigh Harris

Leigh is a Cairns based Aboriginal business owner with traditional connections to the Kanolu people of Central Queensland and Gungarri people of South East Queensland who is also proud of his Italian and Welsh heritage

As a well know diverse Aboriginal creative and digital designer with over 25 years in the industry he has worked on some of the countries major design and creative projects. As a designer, active in the design and digital creatives space for over 25 years he owns and manages ingeous studios a multidisciplinary design studio based in Cairns. Trained as a Public Relation officer with Aboriginal Hostels Limited in Canberra in the late 1980’s he moved to Cairns in 1993 to work with Cape York Land Council as as Communications Officer working throughout Cape York and the Torres Straits for 11 years prior to the establishment of ingeous studios.

As a well established business ingeous studios, a creative design and digital agency and he has worked to ensure the integrity of what he does as an Indigenous business owner and creative and in 2019 in partnership with NorthSite Contemporary Arts established IndigeDesignLabs to share his wealth of knowledge and inspire young people to get into the digital design and creative design industries.

Working remotely for clients across Australia and internationally, Leigh has successfully maintained ingeous studios as a leading creative digital production agency that is a hybrid agency that works across creative productions and digital technologies.