Born in Langenthal in 1974. Patrick Zulauf's favourite place during his childhood and teenage years was the airfield workshop and its scrapyard, where he collected a wide variety of usable parts and lovingly breathed new life into them. After completing his apprenticeship as a designer and metal caster in Sissach (BL), he continued this creative process as a draughtsman with industrial designer Hans Zaugg in Solothurn and designed his first clocks, telephones, pieces of furniture, and lamps.
In 2000, he deepened his knowledge by studying interior and product design at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts) in Basel and subsequently worked on expo.02 projects and as an assistant at ECAL in Lausanne.

In 2003, while he was an exhibition designer for the Basel fair, Patrick Zulauf got to know Thomas Egloff and Hannes Wettstein and subsequently started working as an industrial designer for BELUX at VITRA. In the following years, he focussed almost exclusively on lighting and luminaire construction and developed innovative solutions for objects and living spaces in collaboration with well-known figures like Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Naoto Fukasawa, and Hella Jongerius.
Patrick Zulauf opened his own studio in 2013 and has since worked as an industrial designer and product developer. He has developed unique pieces as well as small and large series on a project-related and interdisciplinary basis.