Akakpo Design Group is the parent company to Akakpo & Co., Maine Culture, and Jewelry Carpenter. All three design companies are unified in their foundation of using symbols to create patterns. This process results in a wide-ranging collection of functional art pieces designed to convey cultural power and personal significance in everyday use. Akakpo Design Group was founded and is led by Ebenezer Akakpo, a Ghanaian-born designer living and working in Portland, Maine. With degrees from RIT in Industrial Design and from Maine College of Art in Metalsmithing and Jewelry, Ebenezer’s pieces are a unique and elegant marriage of the precision of technology and the soul of handmade design.