Patrick Frey was born in Seoul, South Korea. In 2007 he founded Patrick Frey Studio for Design. The studio is working for companies such as Nils Holger Moormann, Bree, Authentics, Richard Lampert, Elmar Flötotto, Vial and others. In the first year Patrick Frey already won the highly endowed prize for junior designers, the Lucky Strike Junior Design Award. Many of his products won international prizes, including the iF Product Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, Design Award Baden Wuerttemberg. 2010, he teaches at the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim.