INTRO

Independent designer for places, makers and slow brands around the Baltic. Identity, wayfinding and print that age well in grey weather.

Sami

A lakeside sauna among birch trees, with a towel on its wooden terrace.

A lake sauna that wanted to feel older than it is.

Helsinki harbor and its waterfront buildings at grey dawn.

HELSINKI HARBOUR, 06:10

A white ferry at an island jetty, with blue paper tickets in the foreground.

“Sami made our ferry tickets something people keep in their wallets.”

AINO LEHTO — SAARI FERRIES

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A seated designer in a harbor-facing studio.

ABOUT

Ten years independent, after a decade at agencies in Stockholm. I work from a desk by the harbour and a notebook in the sauna. Three clients a year, no more.

A designer walking across a rocky Nordic shoreline.

Sami Aho

ÖSTRA HAMNEN, NOVEMBER

ÖSTRA HAMNEN, NOVEMBER

NEW PROJECTS FROM MARCH 2027

Sami Aho

INSTAGRAM ARE.NA LINKEDIN

HELSINKI 60.17° N

© 2026

NEW PROJECTS FROM MARCH 2027

Sami Aho

INSTAGRAM ARE.NA LINKEDIN

HELSINKI 60.17° N

© 2026

NEW PROJECTS FROM MARCH 2027

Sami Aho

INSTAGRAM ARE.NA LINKEDIN

HELSINKI 60.17° N

© 2026

NEW PROJECTS FROM MARCH 2027

Sami Aho

INSTAGRAM ARE.NA LINKEDIN

HELSINKI 60.17° N

© 2026

Sami

Sami

Sami

Sami

HELSINKI 60.17° N

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