About Māori Koru (Aotearoa)
Māori visual culture is a Polynesian design language built on the koru spiral, woven raranga patterns, and carved meeting-house interiors. The koru — the unfurling silver fern frond — represents new life, growth, and harmony, spiralling outward from ancestral memory into living form.
This system translates those forms into a dark, immersive digital palette: deep paua-shell purple-blue grounds, pitch-black koru line work, kokowai crimson accents, and silver iridescence that shifts like abalone shell. Every spiral remembers the ancestor it came from.
- Origin
- Aotearoa / New Zealand
- Era
- pre-1769 to present; contemporary revival from 1970s onwards
- Key figures
- Cliff Whiting · Robyn Kahukiwa · Shane Cotton · Lisa Reihana
- Movements
- Māori traditional art (toi Māori) · kowhaiwhai rafter painting · tukutuku weaving · contemporary Māori art
Māori Koru (Aotearoa) design spec
Colors
Typography
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