
Kaan Hiini
Design Director
he/him
Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi
Kaan has been with Curative since the very beginning. He is an award-winning designer who loves to work deeply with communities to honour their realities and perspectives. Kaan is skilled at translating project needs into richly layered creative work, and his connection with Māori language, values, and practice has been instrumental in shaping our own team’s ways of working. Beyond the studio, Kaan can be found nurturing Auckland’s rainbow community in his role as co-chair of the Auckland Pride Festival.