Author Archives: Dean Homicki

About Dean Homicki

I build businesses, cultures and brands around products I create. I am designer that is an entrepreneur, businessmen and mentor. Specialties:Entrepreneurial Research & Investigation, Product Design, Manufacturing & Branding, Business Culture and Niche Market Development. Consulting, Collaborating and Mentoring
STEAM!_Ken_Evans_Rebecca_Russell_A_FILM_BY_DEAN_HOMICKI 08.11.2012

STEAM! – KEN EVANS & REBECCA RUSSELL. FILM BY DEAN HOMICKI

Ken Evans & Rebecca Russell merge man and machine into a graceful collision of Art, History & Engineering. These talented writers and directors are seen directing the finishing touches on the first and only dress rehearsal in a translucent and …

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Boisbuchet-IMG_6923 18.09.2012

BOISBUCHET FILM 2-(trans)formed Nature-TIMOTHY LIU-Mischer’Traxler

In this 2nd film by Dean Homicki, Timothy Lui (Taiwan), creates an artscape in the cellar of Domaine de Boisbuchet. Artist/designer Timothy Liu presents his project of ‘(trans)formed Nature’ to the workshop participants of both Tomas Kral & mischer’traxler. Paloma …

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DOMAINE de BOISBUCHET-(trans)formed Nature-mischer’traxler workshop-A film by DEAN HOMICKI 11.09.2012

BOISBUCHET FILM 1-(trans)formed Nature-mischer’traxler workshop

Set in the South of France, Domaine de Boisbuchet, in cooperation with Vitra Design Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou, CIRECA hosts a series of international summer workshops led by renowned designers, architects and artists who live and work together …

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'A close up of the copper tube bubbles. It now really late so we can make the finishing touches tomorrow. There is always overtime!' – Tomas Kral Boisbuchet – Image Dean Homicki 16.08.2012

MADE BY PROCESS – DAY 4 – BOISBUCHET

Starting with P.V.C. tube and copper tests from DAY 3 – ‘MADE BY VICE – , the vice was trailed by clamping the copper at regular intervals. Intrinsically, pillow like bubble shapes appeared. Like lollies being sealed in plastic packaging …

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'An amazing discovery and a pleasing result. The Copper tube has become a rope of pillows' -  Tomas Kral Boisbuchet – Image Dean Homicki 15.08.2012

MADE BY VICE – DAY 3 – BOISBUCHET

Today I was out of the water and back on dry land in the Boisbuchet workshops. As Day 3 begins and the presentation of our object is looming, I started early fro Friday is the day after next. I further …

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'The finished item' - made by water - where will & where can our tools take us - Tomas Kral workshops Boisbuchet 2012 - Image Dean Homicki 14.08.2012

MADE BY WATER – DAY 2 – BOISBUCHET

Today I decided to put down the hammer and explore other means of cold joining. Thomas Kral, who is leading the workshop ‘One Tool, One Product’,  is inspiring the group to explore the possibilities of what a tool could and …

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'The cold forged galvanised steel neck-wear and copper wire wrist-wear' - Tomas Kral Boisbuchet - Image Dean Homicki 13.08.2012

MADE BY HAMMER – DAY 1 – BOISBUCHET

Set in the south of France, Domaine de Boisbuchet is international workshop affiliated with the Vitra Design Museum.  Along with my wife Anna, an interior designer, this unique opportunity we will have us exposed to a creative environment with participants and …

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Dean with latest construction - July 1979 - Image Doreen Homicki 09.07.2012

WHAT I WAS DOING WHEN I WAS SIX

I have discovered that the key to developing a ‘business with soul’ is a lot like going back to what I was doing when I was six. Back then, it was all about what I felt drawn to doing naturally and how I acted when by myself and with others that helped me understand my natural talents – rather than learned skills – from experiences and formal education.

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The 'DTAC EDGING KIT' - Designed in collaboration with pidgeon.com.au - the 'bag' (shown before its unwrapping to the client) - communicate the product as precious and bespoke. 06.03.2012

EVERYTHING TECHNIQUE

  Aluminium has been a material that I have been curious about since I was very young.       As young boy, in my Fathers shed, I was surrounded by numerous pieces of textured and grain embellished aluminium sections. …

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'Anna P pendant light' - D+ by Dean Homicki - 2001-2004 - Sand Blasted white opaque acrylic - Image John Gollings 10.02.2012

EVERY LAST DETAIL – D+ to DTAC

Homicki’s explicit attention to every last detail made his DTAC tactile indicator designs an uncompromised and high quality thing of simple, durable beauty. Along the same line, only the best digital signage would represent the “Safety Just Got Sexy” idea.

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DH-Blog-00016 25.01.2012

A HEAVY DOSE OF COURAGE

For the Australian designer, inventor, and entrepreneur we know as Dean Homicki, his years of fine arts study with a focus on goldsmithing and silversmithing at the Royal Institute of Technology in Melbourne certainly started his quest for wanting to help make people’s lives easier.

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Australia Pavilion Foyer - The 'Cube' concept seamlessly transformed into furniture - 2010 - Image David Pidgeon 10.11.2011

VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

Partnering with David Pidgeon from pidgeon.com.au, Dean was engaged to physically render the two dimensional graphic of Pidgeon vision into a three dimensional signage system. “Can you make this?” recalls Dean about a phone call from David. Dean laughs.

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Resolved Hannan Table (1 of 15) - 'Stainless collapseable tables' - Image by samkaranikos.com.au 14.10.2011

NO FLUFF

    “I don’t want any fluff,” Homicki says about the darkest period in his career. “I want to tell the story. It’s one that was quite grueling in retrospect, and quite harrowing on the financial and personal side of …

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Pen Holders - Sandlasted anodised aluminium - Image Sam Karanikos 04.09.2011

A NEW DYNAMISM

    During the dynamic years between 1997 and 2000, Dean Homicki’s industrial design company of dahdah moved away from the hip jewelry designs he had previously created for the David Jones and Myer department stores. While the designs he …

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DEAN HOMICKI – DESIGNER, ENTREPRENEUR, MENTOR

“I am designer that is an entrepreneur, businessmen and mentor. I have a history of in inventing, fine arts and entrepreneurial business. Of course I am naturally curious and investigative. This is my life being lived”, Dean Homicki

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feDH-Blog-0006 29.07.2011

HALF WAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE

  It’s rare to meet an artist or designer who doesn’t dream of making a decent living one piece of work at a time. For the Australian designer, Dean Homicki – and his design licensing and facilitation company, dahdah – …

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feDAHDAH-0028 03.06.2011

ROLL OUT THE PARTITIONS

  During the first five years of his professional career as a designer, Homicki was challenged to create and market the pieces he made. In order to demystify the process of earning enough money to make design a lucrative, long-term …

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feDAHDAH-0038 04.05.2011

IN DIVED DAHDAH

    The world of design has the tendency to test, work and discard if you’re not up for the challenge. Dean Homicki knew this. That said, he felt as though he had somehow struck gold with a busy spell …

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1 x steel and glass - 'modular furniture systems' - 1999-2000 - Image by samkaranikos.com.au 28.04.2011

INTERCHANGEABLE SPIRIT

    Two years after the furniture show that changed the pace and demand of dahdah for the better – with clients aplenty pushing for commercial partitions, display stands and sound absorption panels – the trade show of 1999 hung …

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