Karol Murlak

Karol Murlak is a designer, researcher and educator specializing in design for research and science. His expertise ranges from experimental industrial and spatial design to design research and consulting. 

Currently employed as a professor at Pratt Institute, New York and as an associate professor at SWPS University, Warsaw and running his independent creative consultancy he has more than 18 years of academic and business experience. He has been working with universities, institutions and companies in Europe and America, including Deutsche Bank, Boston Consulting Group, Martinelli Luce, the Museum of Food and Drink and The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. 

He has designed over fifty projects creating innovative materials, products, furniture, exhibitions, and public installations. His work ranges in scale and complexity — from patented technology of expanding wood and therapeutic device correcting deformity of feet to musical installations presented in the most frequented places of the world.

His projects have been presented at exhibitions in New York; Washington, DC; London; Milan; Berlin; Brussels, Frankfurt; Dresden; Budapest; Prague; Bucharest; Sofia; Ljubljana; Warsaw; São Paulo; Brasilia; Rio de Janeiro; and Toyama. He won recognized design awards and competitions such as the Design by… Competition, the Sanitec Koło Prize, and the Design Competition for the City of Łódź.

He graduated from the Spatial Design program in Falmouth College of Art in Great Britain. He also holds a doctoral degree in design and a master’s degree in interior architecture both from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland.

Falmouth College of Arts, Great Britain
Academy of fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland