How Desert Designs started
“Desert Designs didn’t start off as a fashion label or with the intention to build a brand of commodities. It all began with my dad wanting to promote Jimmy’s paintings and to translate texta pen drawings into prints” says Jedda Daisy.
Quotes regarding Pike's designs
"Pike’s vibrant use of colour depicts the heat of his desert country"
"Pike's designs incorporate traditional Aboriginal culture and history, The Dreaming, with western technologies at a time when Aboriginal art was really just being recognised."
“Jimmy was drawn to and excited by texta pens as a medium.”
"Pike preferred fluorescent colours over traditional tones and he chose these to translate the vibe of his desert country.”
“Desert Designs didn’t start off as a fashion label or with the intention to build a brand of commodities. It all began with my dad wanting to promote Jimmy’s paintings and to translate texta pen drawings into prints” says Jedda Daisy.
Quotes regarding Pike's designs
"Pike’s vibrant use of colour depicts the heat of his desert country"
"Pike's designs incorporate traditional Aboriginal culture and history, The Dreaming, with western technologies at a time when Aboriginal art was really just being recognised."
“Jimmy was drawn to and excited by texta pens as a medium.”
"Pike preferred fluorescent colours over traditional tones and he chose these to translate the vibe of his desert country.”
“Aboriginal people see art and culture as one. You manifest your ideas and your culture and you use it; you decorate woomeras and your body. It’s applied. The application of his designs to fabric wasn’t a problem for him. It was quite natural.”
Here are a few photographs of Jimmy Pike's most recent collection. Winter collection to come!
Notice the connection he makes in his designs with colour, symbols and linear patterns to his home-land culture and the historical influence.
“I think it is important to recognise Jimmy Pike as part of Australia’s culture. YLDC carries on Desert Designs quest to bring indigenous and non-indigenous Australians together to collaborate artistically.”