Studio Marimari is a Hamburg-based pattern and print design studio founded by art director Mareike Tonollo. Tonollo worked as a freelance art director from 2004 across print, editorial, magazine, and catalogue design - primarily in women's fashion, lifestyle, and interior design - before shifting focus toward pattern and print design from 2018 onward.








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Studio Marimari is a Hamburg-based pattern and print design studio founded by art director Mareike Tonollo. Tonollo worked as a freelance art director from 2004 across print, editorial, magazine, and catalogue design - primarily in women's fashion, lifestyle, and interior design - before shifting focus toward pattern and print design from 2018 onward.
Abstract, painterly, and gestural brushwork patterns in saturated palettes dominate, spanning animal-print-adjacent brushstrokes, colour-blocked florals, and blurred gradients, with an occasional playful graphic novelty print.
Selected patterns are dominated by bold, saturated abstract and painterly work: gestural brushstroke motifs (a coral animal-print-style brushwork, a tiger-stripe abstract in orange/navy/cream, cobalt-blue squiggle linework on tan), colour-blocked floral abstracts in orange, pink, navy, and lavender, and a blurred pink/orange/blue gradient pattern. One playful graphic novelty print - a peach-and-navy smiley/dot design - shows the studio also works in a lighter, conversational register alongside its abstract core.
Patterns read as digitally painted/illustrated rather than traditional media, consistent with Tonollo's background in editorial and catalogue art direction (unverified specific software).
Clients include fashion brands and retailers commissioning bespoke textile designs, primarily for apparel and home textiles, alongside individual private clients seeking custom, personal textile products.
Founded by Mareike Tonollo, who worked as a freelance art director from 2004 across print, editorial, magazine, and catalogue design for major publishing houses, with a focus on women's fashion, lifestyle, and interior design. She shifted her artistic focus toward pattern and print design from 2018 onward.













Studio Marimari is a Hamburg-based pattern and print design studio founded by art director Mareike Tonollo.
Pattern Focus Abstract, painterly, and gestural brushwork patterns in saturated palettes dominate, spanning animal-print-adjacent brushstrokes, colour-blocked florals, and blurred gradients, with an occasional playful graphic novelty print.
Markets and Specialties womenswear menswear active activewear swim swimwear
Techniques and Artwork Process Patterns read as digitally painted/illustrated rather than traditional media, consistent with Tonollo's background in editorial and catalogue art direction (unverified specific software).
Clients and Commercial Positioning Clients include fashion brands and retailers commissioning bespoke textile designs, primarily for apparel and home textiles, alongside individual private clients seeking custom, personal textile products.
Use the contact links on this profile to reach Studio Marimari directly about your brief, timeline and budget.
Studio Background Founded by Mareike Tonollo, who worked as a freelance art director from 2004 across print, editorial, magazine, and catalogue design for major publishing houses, with a focus on women's fashion, lifestyle, and interior design.
Studio Marimari is a Textile Design Studio. Browse their portfolio and contact them for projects.