Sell Your Art on Design Yangu — The 2026 Guide for Kenyan Artists and Illustrators
Kenyan artists and illustrators — sell your work without managing stock. Upload your designs to Design Yangu, earn on every sale, get paid via M-Pesa. Here's how.
You've been drawing, illustrating, designing — for years, maybe. Your Instagram gets saves. Your DMs ask where people can buy your work. But turning that into actual income? That's where most Kenyan artists stop.
Not because the talent isn't there. Not because the market isn't there. But because the infrastructure was missing.
You couldn't sell a t-shirt with your design without first ordering 50 pieces, storing them somewhere, handling delivery yourself, and chasing payments. That's a logistics business, not an art business.
Design Yangu is Kenya's first print-on-demand marketplace — built specifically for the Kenyan context. You upload your designs. Buyers order products featuring those designs. Design Yangu handles production, packaging, and delivery. You earn a percentage of every sale, paid out to your M-Pesa.
You never touch stock. You never handle a package. You never chase a buyer for payment.
More products are being added. The focus is on items that Kenyan buyers actually buy — not the standard Western POD catalogue copy-pasted without context.
You design a graphic tee with a bold Nairobi skyline illustration You set your design's retail price at KES 1,800 Design Yangu covers production cost (~KES 900–1,100 depending on product)
If 10 buyers order your t-shirt in a month, that's KES 6,000–9,000 from one design.