Maciej Karpiak, a graduate of WSSU in Szczecin, graduated with honors from the Faculty of Interior Design in 2004. Already as a student, he won awards in Polish and international competitions, and in 2003 he was the first Pole to present his furniture at SaloneSatellite in Milan.

Since 2004, he has run his own design studio, Office for Design. He is the author of more than 100 registered industrial designs and numerous projects in the field of interiors, furniture and architecture. In 2010 he founded the Nuuun kitchens brand, and in 2015 he won the top Interior Innovation Award for the Wall Kitchen project.

He was the first designer in Poland to create designs and technologies for the mass production of mobile homes. He served as creative director of Polish furniture factories and developed R&D departments.

Since 2015, as CEO of Spiruu, he has been designing innovative bioreactors and devices of the future. He created the concept of a home bioreactor for growing spirulina, for which Spiruu reached the finals of the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize.

His designs have been exhibited in Europe, and at the Academy of Art in Szczecin he leads the Bionics and Multidisciplinary Product Design studios.