Julia Läufer studied fashion and textile design at St. Martin’s School of Arts in London, and at the University of the Arts in Berlin. During her studies she worked at Christian Dior in Paris, Apropos in Zürich and at the Stadttheater in Freiburg. Later on, she was a product manager for the fashion label Street One. Läufer also had spells as a camera assistant and assistant director, including projects with Serge Roman and Stanley Kubrick.
Läufer later went back to working in the design field as an art director in communication before founding the design studio Läufer & Keichel together with Marcus Keichel. Läufer & Keichel is based in Berlin and has worked with producers such as Avarte, Lammhults, Thonet, Martella and Offecct. For Lammhults, Läufer and Keichel designed the Penne chair in 2014, that is a part of the collection at the Museum of Furniture Studies in Stockholm.
Together Läufer & Keichel has been the recipients of several prolific award, such as the Red Dot Award in 2017 for the Penne chair and German Design Award GOLD for the office desk program TRAILO for Reiss in 2019. In 2019/2002 Läufer was a part of the Female Traces exhibition at the Museum of Furniture Studies in Stockholm.
From 2017 to 2019 Läufer taught as a visiting professor for product design at the FHP University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam.
