Day: October 22, 2021

The late Lin Onus was a hero of mine. I used to be 13 when City Dingo was printed. I’d take the massive shiny guide to high school, and it grew to become my personal lesson in design, line work and expressing the layers of Nation.

Lin Onus’s father, Uncle Invoice Onus, was born in 1906 on Cummeragunja Mission. My grandmother, Lulla Morgan was born at Cummera eight years later. Uncle Invoice was a high-profile activist and profitable entrepreneur. He campaigned for our citizenship rights and for parliamentary illustration.

In 1952 Uncle Invoice Onus established Aboriginal Enterprises. He carved and bought boomerangs, woomeras and greeting playing cards. His store and manufacturing unit within the Dandenong Ranges grew to become a serious vacationer attraction, his boomerang throwing demonstrations a drawcard in themselves. For Uncle Invoice, the enterprise was extra about selling and preserving our traditions than it was about revenue. He

Simply after we have been gearing as much as host out third annual The Design Recordsdata + Laminex Design Awards ceremony in individual… effectively, you realize what occurred subsequent! Fortunately, after final yr’s on-line awards ceremony, we knew we might nonetheless have a good time our wonderful Australian design business in fashion. And that’s precisely what we did final evening, on the ultimate evening of Melbourne’s FINAL lockdown!

For this yr’s livestream, we turned it up a notch with the assistance of some very particular visitor appearances. We have been so fortunate to have our divine good friend Clare Bowditch host this yr’s occasion (in addition to contribute an attractive essay on creativity to our newspaper, which you’ll learn right here), and an enormous particular thanks should go to Troye Sivan, Melissa Leong, Reko Rennie, Jacqui Felgate, Jenny Kee AO, Paul Bangay OAM and Victoria’s Chief Well being Officer Brett