Ajax Oakford is a Bay Area artist and woodworker. He is known for his San Francisco public seating park-let sculptures as well as his wooden and cement utilitarian environments. Commissions include Martin Luther King Jr. School in Portland, Oregon; The Luggage Store in San Francisco; and The Vans Duct Tape Invitational in Oceanside, California where he built a sculpture surf shack in collaboration with Chris Johanson.