Your new BUDDY

BUDDY serves to provide students and young adults with access to quiet and peaceful study spaces to facilitate growth, learning, and social interaction between those who may not have access elsewhere.

The BUDDY brand is designed to bring students and young adults closer together by providing them a space to relax, study, and hang out.

Our Story

BUDDY began as a high school inconvenience. Growing up in Brampton Ontario, a heavily car dependent city in Canada, I found it nearly impossible to get anywhere. Public transit was underfunded and unreliable, and anything interesting was at least a 20 minute drive away from my house. By walking, that's anywhere from 45 minutes to over an hour. Aside from my house and the hours I spent in high school, I had no third place to exist in freely.

Moving on to college, I experienced what third places could feel like. Of course, I still had responsibilities on campus, but it was much more social. I wasn't trapped in my room, or locked in classrooms for 8 hours. I could see friends, make friends, all organically. And this inspired me to design something that could bring that experience back to high school me.

And so, BUDDY was born. A third space that takes advantage of the infrastructure that supresses it. In a perfect world, BUDDY wouldn't need to exist. The infrastructure that necessitates it wouldn't exist. Cities and suburbs would be built around people rather than cars.