
The Great Aloha Run (GAR) has spent 41 years dedicated to supporting our local community, so when it came time to design the 2025 finisher shirt, medal, in training shirt and more, they continued the tradition by working with Honolulu-born graphic designer Nurry Kwan of Nurdyk to create this year’s looks.
Nurry is an illustrator and graphic designer with more than 20 years’ experience working with many of Hawaii’s familiar brands. His love for drawing began in elementary school where he could often be found doodling in his notebooks during recess. He put his well-honed doodling skills to use when concepting the various designs for GAR’s 2025 event shirts and medal.
“Helping with this year’s artwork for the Great Aloha Run has been a great honor, since this event is about bringing people together and sharing that aloha spirit,” Kwan says. “We tried to capture the essence of GAR and Keiki GAR by including well-known landmarks and showing the energy of the runners.”
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During his free time, Nurry loves drawing and trying new food places with his wife. He is also a Boy Dad of three and enjoys watching his sons play sports.
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The 2025 Finisher t-shirt, designed by local graphic designer Nurry Kwan, honors the representation of many of our past participants and groups including Carole Kai, Jean Hagi, Cowman and ths Sounds of Freedom.

Our 2025 Finisher Medal shows an updated version of our runner silhouettes with the Aloha Tower peeking out in the background.

The first design printed for the 2025 event was the In-Training t-shirt. On yellow dri-fit fabric, it gives a teaser of elements that are included on the Finisher shirt.

The 2025 Volunteer Kōkua (help) depicts elements of the Finisher shirt design and is printed on a complementary light blue fabric.

Always fun and whimisical, the 2025 Keiki Great Aloha Run shirt design welcomes the crab and other shoreline charaters that can be found at Magic Island, which is also shown in the background.