Maciej Karpiak, a graduate of WSSU in Szczecin, graduated with honours 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 over 100 registered industrial designs and numerous interior, furniture, and architectural projects. In 2010, he founded the Nuuun kitchens brand, and in 2015, he won the main Interior Innovation Award for his "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 in Polish furniture factories and developed R&D departments.

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

His projects have been presented at exhibitions in Europe, and he runs the Bionics and Multidisciplinary Product Design studios at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.