Àrokò Cooperative is a worker-owned design studio and publishing house. We help organizations build brands, products, and narratives with clarity, depth, and craft. Our approach blends storytelling, cultural intelligence, and design excellence into a single practice. We create work that resonates across communities and institutions, while expanding design through new forms, archives, and ways of making.

Storytelling defines the framework of an experience and the message it carries; ensuring clarity, coherence, and meaning throughout the work.

Cultural intelligence anchors creativity with context, meaning, and research. 

Design excellence drives precision, detail, and disciplined execution.

We partner with cultural institutions, mission-driven organizations, publishers, artists, educators, and global brands to build meaningful creative work. Our services include:

Brand Strategy & Identity
Positioning, visual direction, naming, brand systems, and narrative frameworks.

Digital Product & Experience Design
UX/UI, prototyping, product strategy, and interactive storytelling for web and digital platforms.

Creative Direction & Content Production
Campaigns, editorial design, visual narratives, and multi-format creative assets.

Publishing & Editorial Development
Anthologies, books, journals, archives, and culturally grounded research that expands the profession.

Our studio is guided by cultural intelligence, working-class solidarity, and a deep commitment to liberation. We design from lived experience—with rigor, imagination, and the belief that creativity can challenge systems, build connections, and offer new possibilities.

Àrokò is for those who value depth, excellence, and imagination—for institutions seeking cultural resonance, for communities building new futures, and for creators working at the edges of possibility.

Build culture. Grow design. Make work rooted in care.

Check out our Manifesto and learn more about our Design approach at designtodivest.org