We’re very proud to announce that our founder and creative director, Joe Hodnicki, was asked to showcase his linoprint art at the G:40 Summit, as one of the 500 featured artists from around the world!
This event will feature 75,000 sq ft of exhibition space with 4 floors of art! Each floor will represent different hot [...]

There are few things in this world that I find more beautiful than a collaboration of talent. To see people from different walks of life, each with a story of their own, channeling their energy to create something as a whole just moves me. No limits, no boundries, just love.
Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie’s “We [...]

Most of you by now have either seen or heard of MTV’s ridiculous show, Jersey Shore. Like all of us here at OKOTO, we’re pretty bummed at the way this reality show is depicting our coast. For those of us who live, work, hang and surf here, it’s not at all how we’d like our [...]

and they are awesome.
seriously … probably one of the most down to earth, nicest and creative couples you’ll ever come across. we were stoked when we first met them at a a mutual art show and have been admiring their work ever since.
they kind of seem to do it all when it comes to design, [...]

NEW YORK SURF FILM FESTIVAL

Joe and Amy with Andrew Judge, COO of Surfaid International, Christian Driggs of Driggs Bros Pro, Jason and Elizabeth Ritter of Surfaid in NYC.

morgan berk, co-founder of the New York Surf Film Festival, interviewing with the Driggs Bros.

Beau Young setting up to perform at the Film Festival.

The crowd partying in [...]

As many of you know, on Wednesday September 30, a 7.6 earthquake hit Sumatra. Our friends at SurfAid International have launched an Emergency Response Appeal to help the people of Padang.
There has been extensive damage and many homes, buildings, schools and hospitals have been destroyed. The death toll stands at 704, as reported by the [...]

The Alaia, an ancient Hawaiian board, is a piece of art in and of itself. Wooden and finless, it seperates itself from the modern board in every way, especially in it’s ride as it requires much more skill and provides an experience unlike anything else.
We owe the revivial of the Alaia to Tom Wegener, an [...]

Since we had such a great time last year at the Belmar Pro, we’ll be down again this weekend to hang with the Eastern Lines crew, nearly 30 other sponsors and 150 competitors.  Stop by our booth for ridiculously priced threads and some sweet giveaways. If you can’t make it, you can still follow everything [...]

So we received an email today, with one of the greatest photographs attached to it that we might have ever gotten from a friend. Sent straight from Tonga … yes, Tonga, the “Friendly Islands” settled right between New Zealand and Hawaii. With it, Erik’s email explained that unfortunately, there wasn’t a beautiful native nearby to [...]

Through our OKOTOrelief program, OKOTO designed the hats for this year’s SEAPaddleNYC, the 3rd annual, 28 mile paddle around New York to benefit SEA, Surfer’s Healing, Austism Speaks, Autism Family Services of NJ and Autism NJ.
Among the 100+ paddlers will be Darrick Doerner, Joel Tudor and more!
Check out some pics from last year’s event here [...]