Founded his own studio in Zurich in 1999. With idiosyncratic visual experiments
an approaches he quickly made his mark within the international design scene and won several
design awards. Within a competition for the new Swiss banknote series
he was nominated second prize and received an invitation for the final round. 2007 he got the
«designpreis schweiz» first price.
Martin Woodtli is associated with a young swiss design scene, running their studios mainly with
an emphasis on passion and joy for design, rather than monetary interests. Woodtli seems to live
after a quote from brian eno’s diary: to do something as persistently and sedulously as no one
else would do, is a good way of creating something unique. His work manifests itself in complex
typographic arrangements and dense, manicly layered patterns of everyday objects.