NAIDOC Week T-Shirt Design Competition
March 24 2025 – YMCA Gear

Submit Your Design for NAIDOC Week 2025
Are you a young creative ready to share your strength, vision, and legacy through art?
To celebrate NAIDOC Week 2025, Y Gear and the Y Design Program have partnered with WhyNot to invite young people across Australia to enter our annual Design Competition, inspired by this year’s powerful theme:
“The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy”
This theme honours the resilience, knowledge, and cultural pride of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — and invites us all to reflect on how these values shape our collective future.
We’re inviting young artists, illustrators, and designers to create a digital artwork that brings this theme to life through your own unique lens.
About the Partnership
Each year, we collaborates with First Nations artists to create a limited-edition NAIDOC Week T-shirt - celebrating culture, creativity and community. Partnering with WhyNot, a platform dedicated to amplifying youth voices, brings together our shared commitment to empowering the next generation and creating space for authentic expression.
Here are the previous t-shirt designs as inspiration:
What’s on offer:
- Winner: $500 AUD and your design printed on the Y’s official NAIDOC Week T-shirts
- Two runners up: $250 AUD each
- All entries will be considered for publication on the WhyNot Platform, with the opportunity to be paid up to $150 AUD
Entries close: Midnight, 21 April 2025 (AEDT time).
This is your chance to celebrate culture, creativity, and community - and help carry stories forward through art.
To find out more or submit your design, visit/click the link below::
https://www.whynot.org.au/have-your-say/naidoc-design-competition/
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