Tūāpapa Studio delivers branding, design, and communications work solutions.

The studio works across identity systems, graphic design and illustration to develop mahi that is led by people, place and purpose.

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BRANDING

Effective branding is often the first point of contact between a business and its audience. Within seconds, people form impressions based on logo, colour, typography, and presentation. Branding defines how your organisation is understood and builds long-term recognition and trust.

  • Primary Logo
    Business Card Design
    Social Media Assets
    Web & Print Files
    Basic Guidelines

  • Strategy Direction
    Full Logo Suite
    Colour & Typography Systems
    Brand Guidelines

  • Strategy
    Identity System
    Messaging
    Rollout Assets
    Full Guidelines

DESIGN

Graphic design is a tool for communication and clarity. Alongside being aesthetic, work is developed to organise information, strengthen messaging, and enhance how content is experienced across digital and physical platforms.

  • Reports
    Annual reports
    Booklets
    Catalogues
    Posters
    Editorial layouts

  • Social Media Assets
    Web Graphics
    Presentations
    Infographics
    Brand Illustration
    Icon Design
    Pattern Design
    Environmental Design

  • Some files lose quality when you make them bigger, becoming blurry or pixelated. Vector graphics work differently. They’re built to scale, meaning they can be resized from a small logo on a screen to large signage or print without losing clarity.

    This is essential for any professional brand. Your logo, artwork, or graphics need to work across everything and vector imaging ensures your design stays sharp, clean, and usable in any context, now and into the future.

COMMISSIONS

Commissioned work and community projects deliver bespoke creative outcomes rooted in people, place, and kaupapa. Work is collaborative, and designed to be meaningful and publicly engaging.

  • Private commissions are a space to create something personal and considered. Work that sits closely with your story, your space, or your intention. Each project begins with a kōrero, allowing the vision to take shape before being translated into a piece that feels resolved, deliberate, and uniquely yours.

  • Public commissions are designed to live in shared environments, seen often, experienced by many. The work is developed with its surroundings in mind, responding to scale, audience, and context, while holding its integrity over time. The aim of works is to be considered, and lasting within the space it occupies.

  • Community commissions begin with listening. These projects are shaped through collective input, working alongside people to ensure the outcome reflects what matters to them. The process is as important as the result with the aim to instill local meaning, provide context, and feel genuinely owned by the community it represents.