Brandie Janow works across the cultural and creative sectors with a foundation in design academia, focusing on strategy, cultural analysis, and futurism. Her specialty is the Saudi market, where she has been part of the early formation of the design field and the broader cultural landscape.
She began in design and expanded into cultural policy, ecosystem architecture, and institutional direction. Her work examines how sectors take form, how knowledge moves across disciplines, and how structural decisions influence continuity. This includes creating indices and frameworks connected to creative economies and cultural production.
Janow is part of Rukun, a research, innovation, and advisory company contributing regional insight to conversations around culture and economic transformation. Through this work, she has developed initiatives, institutional models, and cultural projects connected to national priorities. She also created Knowledge of Design through Rukun, the first cross-disciplinary STEAM initiative examining design as a system of knowledge across science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics.
She is also the founder of Kingdom Creatives, a peer-led think tank that documents the evolution of the cultural sector through publications, field knowledge, and community dialogue.
Alongside this work, she advises firms, universities, and organizations working across culture, design, and education.