Commissions | Logo Designs

Hand Drawn Artwork | Kyrie Klemp 

The logo design background story:

One of the reasons I choose the image of the Ruru was chosen for its significance of: 8 Ruru Street, Waikanae. This is the location for Kapiti Neuro Therapy, where Corinne offers hope to Children, Teenagers and Adults after their diagnosis by using well-researched and non-medical therapy solutions.

The other reason was because when I met Corinne for the first time to discuss the logo brief, I found myself in awe with the valuable service she provides to those in need. To me, Corinne was everything that the Ruru invokes…knowledge and protection.

The Ruru, also known as the NZ Morepork, is a small brown owl found in New Zealand, Its name is derived from its two-tone call.

The Ruru is a powerful figure in Māori mythology and tradition. Being said to originate from the underworld, the morepork (ruru) is strongly associated with the spirit world in Māori mythology. The ancestral spirit of a family group can take the form of a ruru in some Māori tradition. This spirit is known as Hine-ruru, the 'owl woman'. It is believed that these owl spirits can act as kaitiaki or guardians and have the power to protect, warn and advise.

Over the past several decades, significant advances have been made in our understanding of the basic stages and mechanisms of mammalian brain development. Studies elucidating the neurobiology of brain development span the levels of neural organization from the macroanatomic, to the cellular, to the molecular. Together this large body of work provides a picture of brain development as the product of a complex series of dynamic and adaptive processes operating within a highly constrained, genetically organized but constantly changing context. The view of brain development that has emerged from the developmental neurobiology literature presents both challenges and opportunities to psychologists seeking to understand the fundamental processes that underlie social and cognitive development, and the neural systems that mediate them.

The colour palette you see represents the land, sky, water and sun….thus connecting our body to the greater world around us, the natural world. 

Kapiti Island is an island about 5 km off the west coast of the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is 10 km long, running southwest/northeast, and roughly 2 km wide, being more or less rectangular in shape, and has an area of 19.65 km2. The full original name for the island is Te Waewae-Kapiti-o-Tara-rāua-ko-Rangitāne, meaning "the boundary of Tara and Rangitāne" and referring to it as a place where the rohe (territories) of Ngāi Tara (now known as Muaūpoko) and Rangitāne iwi adjoined each other. The word kapiti (meaning 'to be joined') is spelt without a macron and is unrelated to the word kāpiti (cabbage).

There’s a point as you drive north along the Kāpiti Coast, just after Pukerua Bay, when Kapiti Island comes into view. Glowing green with native bush, the gentle silhouette of the island draws your eye and captures your imagination.

Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand's oldest and most important nature reserves, and a place rich in Māori history. The whānau  based at the north end of Kāpiti have mana whenua on the island; their ancestors arrived and settled in the 1820s and the family continue to live on the island to this day.