A lot of what makes NK worth wearing was drawn by someone else's hand. Pacific and Aboriginal artists and designers, working in their own traditions, whose work has shaped our pieces. Every one of them has given us their permission to carry their art. This page is where we name them
Why we do this
Our position on it is simple and it is written into how we work: this art belongs to the people and cultures it comes from, and the people who make it should be named and asked.
We have all seen the other version. Our patterns, our motifs, our designs, lifted by outside brands, stripped of any name, sold with no idea and no care about who made them or what they mean. NK exists partly as the answer to that. So every artist whose work appears on an NK piece is here by agreement. We asked, they said yes, and we credit them by name. That is not a courtesy. It is the whole point.
The artists and designers
These are the artists and designers we work with, each of whom has given us permission to use their work commercially. If you like what you see on an NK piece, follow the line back to the person who drew it and support them directly too.
Our own work too
Alongside these, we design our own pieces, drawn from across the Pacific family, Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Every design carries something: a motif, a meaning, a piece of where we come from. Never decoration for its own sake.
Where we stand on it
You can read our full position on using cultural design the right way here: cultural appreciation, not appropriation.
The short version is on this page already. Name the maker. Support them. Treat other people's culture the way you want your own treated.
One Family. Many Islands.
