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Nga mihi nui ki a koutou.
Welcome to our blog post all about Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori! We were learning about how organisations using certain colours to communicate who they are.
For example, Awapuni School colours are yellow and black. Our sign has these colours and so does our uniform.
Other brands that always use the same colours include:
KFC - white and red
McDonalds - yellow and red
Warehouse - red and white
Briscoes - blue and yellow
Bunnings - green and red and white
Mitre 10 - orange and black and white
Smiggle - yellow and pink
As part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori we looked at the colours that the brand use to communicate their message. We looked at the arero (tongue) on the hei tiki on their logo that you can see on the first slide below, and used these colours to create our designs. We had a number of phrases to use such as:
Ka tākaro ahau (I will play)
Ka waiata ahau (I will sing)
Ka pānui ahau ( I will read)
Ka whakarongo ahau (I will listen)
Ka kōrero ahau (I will speak)
Many of us liked the idea of creating an image representing a kupu (word) that teaches people about something we like to play. So we used the phrase
Ka tākaro ahau / I will play and added our thing we like to play into the centre of our badge.
Some of the things that were challenging about creating our badges were to think what we would create, getting the shapes correct, finding the right kupu.
Some of the things that was quite easy were creating the word art - especially the English word.
And some things we think we could improve on next time are checking our kupu carefully and choosing more interesting fonts than just the one that comes up to start with.
