Chris Flack
@chris_flack
Type Here Judge 2026
Chris Flack is Design Director at renowned design agency Strategy Creative in Ōtautahi Christchurch. His career has taken him from one side of the world to the other. Along the way, he helped put a small New Zealand town on the map by creating a new time zone and launched TEDx in New Zealand by exploding over 1,000 ping-pong balls. He’s also rebranded Christmas, convinced the design world to embrace Comic Sans (for a good cause), and made statistics funny enough to get Dunedin talking. His recent project, Mate Act Now, used a digital protest to spark conversation about climate action. His work has appeared everywhere from Mashable to Creative Review, and his designs are exhibited at the Mexican Museum of Design.
The Yeah Nah Scale
Finalist
Type Here 2025
Tana Mitchell
@tanamitchell
Type Here Judge 2026
Tana Mitchell is an award-winning creative director and designer with over 20 years’ experience across the cultural, commercial and corporate sectors. Her commercial practice spans strategic brand and product development for large organisations to experimental design solutions for independent record labels, hospitality, artists and art institutions. As an unabashed lover of all things graphic design she strives to make things that are curious, intelligent, helpful, engaging and sensitive to context. In 2015, she co-founded AKIN, an award-winning design studio in Aotearoa New Zealand, she is now based in Naarm Melbourne where new conversations and collaborations are forming.
Fair Go / Gone
Finalist
Type Here 2025
Sheahan Huri
@sheahanhuri
Type Here Judge 2026
Sheahan Huri is a South African born, West Auckland raised, graphic designer and lecturer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. He has an interest in experimental typography, typographic posters as well as history across a range of fields, including art, music, fashion and literature. Sheahan has been a finalist in every Type Here competition to date and his work has been published in The National Grid. He has over a decade’s worth of experience in education, teaching typography, poster and publication design. Sheahan has previously taught at AUT and Whitecliffe, and currently lectures part-time at Unitec within the Design and Contemporary Arts degree.
Filth: Mid-Winter Kanikani
Finalist
Type Here 2025
Sonia Mijatov
@deskofsonia
Type Here Judge 2026
Sonia Mijatov is a Senior Designer at Guardians Ahiauaha in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Part Kiwi, part Croatian, and proudly straddling both, Sonia’s crush on typography shines through with the brands she works on, and in the typefaces and hand lettering she crafts as part of her personal work. Always in search of the uncommon, she often finds herself playing with unconventional executions of irreverent ideas. Her Type Here 2025 winning entry, ‘The Fabric of Society’, was described by the judges as ‘a unique typographic indictment of current socio-political trends’.
The Fabric of Society
Winner
Type Here 2025
Our theme for Type Here 3 is Wāwāhia Te Tahā (Break The Calabash). This is framed by the whakataukī ‘ko te mahi a te tamariki, he wāwāhi tahā’ (the activities of children break calabashes). It speaks to the inquisitive nature of tamariki as they explore the world and its objects, necessarily breaking precious items within it.
In this spirit, our theme foregrounds risk-taking and experimentation. We encourage the application of typography in unexpected and inventive ways. Because true progress requires risk.
The jury will base their decisions on four criteria:
- Utilising typography to bring an idea or creative expression to life
- Presenting a unique or progressive design that propels the medium forward
- Well-crafted implementation
- Relevance to the theme
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Type Here x Kaan Hiini @kaanivorous
Type Here is back for 2026. This year’s theme and campaign is a collaboration with Kaan Hiini, overall winner of the first Type Here.
Type Here is an Aotearoa typography poster competition, focused on contemporary and expressive typography.
Aotearoa is a place rich in storytelling, from epic mythologies to emotional journeys, our stories carry the very DNA of our nation. Type Here celebrates these personal stories, expressed through language, culture and typography.
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The Fabric of Society
Winner
Type Here 2025
Designer: Sonia Mijatov @deskofsonia
A giant plastic plaid bag. Our coming-of-age totem. In the face of moving houses, cities & lifetimes - these bags carry us. Despite the flimsy exterior they’re a manifestation of our & ‘she’ll be right’ attitude and a bit of dumb luck. We ignore bulging zips barely holding our worldly possessions together, or the fabric threatening to rip, schlepping our baggage place to place.
Built by sewing letters hand cut from the bag itself, this entry shines a light on a humble staple in kiwi culture, whether crumpled at the back of a cupboard or a proud tapestry in our garages.
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📸 @jessica.chloe
Kiwi Culchur
Type Here 2 Exhibition 📸
19 Sep - 4 Oct 2025
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery
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Type Here is an Aotearoa typography poster competition, focused on contemporary and expressive typography.
Aotearoa is a place rich in storytelling, from epic mythologies to emotional journeys, our stories carry the very DNA of our nation. Type Here celebrates these personal stories, expressed through language, culture and typography.
📸@jessica.chloe
New theme coming soon 👀✨
