Àrokò Monthly

Comrades, dear friends, co-conspirators,

As 2025 draws to a close, we find ourselves in that familiar in-between space, the festive glow of gatherings alongside the weight of everything this year has revealed. At Àrokò, we end the year energized by the prospect of continuing our work. We are grateful to be in community with you and excited to share what we’ve been building together.

New Year, New Work

As we head into 2026, we're excited to share a short recap on our various clients projects that we have completed so far.

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. If this sounds like you, reach out to us at contact@aroko.coop to set up an introductory call.

→ Explore our design offerings on our website

This month, in the spirit of giving, we’re offering a more intimate look inside the Àrokò Cooperative. Highlights include:

An Inside Look Into Our Design Department

We launched our first member interview series with the Àrokò design department. These conversations reflect our commitment to craft, discipline, and care.

→ Get a behind-the-scenes look at how we think, make, and collaborate by reading the interview.

Creative Growth in a Cooperative Ecosystem: A Conversation with the Àrokò Design Department

“Because we’re a community that’s figuring out how to do business together, most of what we do together is play.”

ÀROKÒ.WORLDShakeil

Our First Monthly Roundtable
We gathered to talk about design, culture, and the growing chasm between craft and performance.

→Explore our roundtable discussion on counterculture and what it means to make work with integrity today.

Àrokò Monthly Roundtable #01

This roundtable discussion names a growing unease with societies that reward visibility over substance. Across design, music, politics, and tech, we ask: How do we return to discipline, care, and real cultural intelligence without turning those values into just another surface level performance.

ÀROKÒ.WORLDAishatu Ado

As we move through this season of gift-giving, we are mindful of those for whom the year does not end in rest or celebration. In Sudan, Congo, Palestine, and across the world, people continue to endure ongoing genocides that demand our attention.

→Read the poem below on Darfur and sit with what it asks of us in this moment.

Darfur: A Wound Still Open

04 VERSES IN THE WAKE Darfur opens— a wound the sun keeps trying to close. A girl stands in the heat, holding her silence like a bird too frightened to lift its wings. The air breaks against the girl’s face. Someone’s scream from the night before still clings

ÀROKÒ.WORLDAishatu Ado

In a time of relentless consumerism, one of the most meaningful gifts we can offer is divestment from systems of harm and an engagement with struggles that are too often ignored, dismissed, or obscured amid rising anti-Blackness, authoritariansim, and anti-gender movements. We end this year holding hope, and the belief that through collective effort, attention, and imagination, liberatory futures remain possible.

May we remember that solidarity is not seasonal. May we carry care beyond the moment, and choose actions that bend toward justice.

In solidarity,

The members of Àrokò Cooperative