08.11.2012
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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18.09.2012
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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11.09.2012
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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16.08.2012
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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15.08.2012
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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14.08.2012
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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13.08.2012
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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09.07.2012
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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06.03.2012
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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10.02.2012
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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25.01.2012
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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10.11.2011
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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14.10.2011
“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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04.09.2011
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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02.08.2011
“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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29.07.2011
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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03.06.2011
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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04.05.2011
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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28.04.2011
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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