Uli
Budde

Uli Budde works independently from his office in Berlin since 2009, concentrating on projects ranging from furniture, table ware and lighting.
Besides, he was co-founder of Officeoriginair in 2006, a collaboration with Dutch designer Ivan Kasner.
Since several years the two designers use their individual names instead, when collaborating.

In the past years, Uli Budde has been teaching as a visiting professor in the Industrial Design department at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, and at the Product design department of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany.
Uli Budde has been teaching at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and has been recently invited to a teaching assignment at the HBK Saar, University of Art and Design in Saarbrücken.

His projects are honoured with different awards like the Dutch Design Award (Officeoriginair), the GIO Award (Officeoriginair), two RED DOT AWARDS in 2012 (Officeoriginair), the DESIGN PLUS AWARD 2014 and the iF DESIGN AWARD 2017 (with Ivan Kasner).
In 2010 and 2011 Uli Budde received the Faces of Design Award.

Uli Budde (born 1978) studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam/Germany and graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven/Netherlands in 2004.
He worked as a freelance designer for various studios in the Netherlands including Jongeriuslab/Hella Jongerius, Baukje Trenning and Joost Grootens.

The work of Uli Budde investigates the well-known everyday object, finding new solutions to transform the familiar in a thoughtful and functional way.
With a close relationship to familiar products, objects and situations, Buddes’ designs take on an easy understanding and acceptance into daily life - a clever simplicity with an unobtrusive presence.
 Within his way of working he has developed a strong handwriting which can be both poetic or graphic, without losing functionality out of sight.