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 collections 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 design professional with almost 30 years of experience in creating consumer products in collaboration with hundreds of leading global brands. Recognized by Taschen Publishing as one of the World’s Leading Designers and featured in I.D. The International Design Magazine's Year’s Most Ingenious Products, Ahokas has played a key role in helping clients across the lifestyle industries develop successful, globally retailed designs in around 40 countries.

His extensive list of clients and collaborations includes top industry names such as Audi, Unilever, Nokia, Kohl’s, Orkla, Crate & Barrel, Burda, Texton, Iittala, Marimekko, Sangetsu, Toli, Sincol Interior, Richloom, Design House Stockholm, and Bemz, as well as prestigious institutions like the Berlin University of the Arts, Aalto University, and the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. His partnerships also span a wide range of iconic brands, including Arabia, Hackman Designor, Stockmann, CarpetVista, S Group, Kesko Corporation, 4murs, Eurokangas, Otsu Keori, Leaf, Raisio Group, Texmoda, Lilycolor, Tkano, Ugépa, 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 and 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.

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). His work has been featured in around 400 international publications and media outlets, and exhibited extensively across Asia, Europe, and North America 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 the Murano Glass Museum in Venice, the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection, the Collections of SOK, and LUOMUS.

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