FOR A MUCH MORE FANTASTIC REALITY

ATELIER AHOKAS, founded in 2017, is a Helsinki-based design studio and lifestyle brand focusing on bold, contemporary product and surface pattern designs crafted for all genders, across all materials. Driven by passion, our mission is to defeat the ordinary with bold, unapologetic unisex patterns you won’t find anywhere else.

We create surfaces and products that make spaces speak, helping businesses add style, soul, and spark through visionary designs and holistic collections built for tomorrow. From concept and artwork development to production-ready solutions, our multidisciplinary services help your products stand out and connect with your customers.

To promote a more sustainable future, we have made all our surface design collections digitally accessible 24/7 through our B2B online showroom since the start, ending the need to travel for patterns. Enjoy effortless access to the world’s largest curated collection of contemporary Finnish surface artworks anytime and anywhere. We offer thousands of unique, handmade, and digitally composed all-over patterns, each ready to be seamlessly adapted across a wide range of products.

Our surface designs bring character to interiors, fashion, accessories, tableware, paper goods, architecture, and beyond. As specialists in all-gender design, we create patterns that flow effortlessly between abstract, figurative, geometric, floral, monochrome, and multicolour, offering endless creative potential. Infuse your products with our distinctive signature artworks and make an impact with unforgettable design.

You’ll find ATELIER AHOKAS’ surface design showcased at leading international trade fairs and throughout the year in Japan via our sales agency. We’re proud to collaborate globally with forward-thinking established brands and manufacturers who share our vision and trust our creative expertise.

Join us and share our passion to create a much more fantastic reality!

THE MIND BEHIND THE BRAND

IIRO A. AHOKAS, founder and design director of ATELIER AHOKAS,  is an internationally acclaimed Finnish industrial and graphic designer and artist with nearly 30 years of experience collaborating with hundreds of leading brands on consumer products. Recognized by TASCHEN as one of the world’s top 90 leading designers in Design Now! and featured in I.D. The International Design Magazine’s Year’s Most Ingenious Products, Ahokas has played a key role in shaping successful designs across the lifestyle industries, retailed globally in approximately 40 countries.

His extensive list of clients and collaborations includes top industry names such as Audi, Unilever, Uniqlo, Nokia, Kohl’s, and Orkla, alongside design brands like Marimekko, Iittala, Design House Stockholm, Crate & Barrel, Bemz, Arabia, Hackman Designor, CarpetVista, and Burda. He has also designed for Richloom, Sangetsu, Toli, Sincol Interior, and Texton, and has worked with prestigious institutions including the Berlin University of the Arts, Aalto University, and the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. His partnerships further extend to renowned brands such as Stockmann, Kesko Corporation, S Group, Raisio Group, Eurokangas, 4murs, Ugépa, Otsu Keori, Leaf, Texmoda, Lilycolor, Tkano, Sandudd, Image Publishing, Anno Collection, Daigo, Vimmacompany, Frenn, and the Finnish State Art Commission, among many others.

In parallel with his commercial design career, Ahokas has gained recognition as an invited lecturer in Industrial Product Design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He has also held a lecturer’s position at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, where he led experimental design education within the MA Degree Programme in Applied Art and Design. (2007-2014.)

Ahokas obtained his Master of Arts degree from his alma mater, the University of Art and Design Helsinki, in 2001 (now the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture). Around 400 publications and media outlets have featured Ahokas’ work internationally, with his creations exhibited across Asia, Europe, and North America. His pieces have been showcased at major design fairs, events, and museums, including The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Murano Glass Museum, la Casa dell'Architettura Roma, Pitti Immagine Uomo, Notojima Glass Art Museum, Design Museum Gent, Stockholm Furniture Fair, IMM Cologne, Design Museum Helsinki, Habitare, and Messe Frankfurt. Ahokas’ works are also part of esteemed collections such as the Murano Glass Museum in Venice, the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection, and the Collections of SOK and LUOMUS.

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