Adrian Jankowlak, a designer and creative director with a passion for connecting people, ideas, organizations, and technologies. He believes empathy, collaboration, and prototyping are key to solving problems on any scale.

He has designed products, services, and creative campaigns across the world, with work spanning new technologies, toys, consumer electronics, furniture, sanitation, and more in fast-moving industries across a large number of brands.

In 2015 he founded Nairobi Design Week to strengthen the Kenyan creative industry and give East Afrikan talent a platform to showcase their work locally and globally.

Nairobi Design Week is an annual festival and all-year platform that brings Afrikan design to the world, with past projects including the Refugees Pavilion at the London Design Biennale and collaborations with several European academic institutions, as well as the British Council.