Guy Hohmann Design

Check out the July issue of NZ House & Garden for a nice shot of Rhythm in a feature on book storage styled by Anna Church.

Photo courtesy NZ House & Garden

If you’re in the vicinity of Unitec’s Mount Albert Campus before Saturday the 24th of May, pop by Snowwhite gallery in Building One where a Harmony seat is on show in a graduate exhibition curated by Mary-Louise Browne entitled “The Day After Tomorrow”.

The screen capture above links to a recent article in Viva, a New Zealand Herald weekly supplement, featuring 10 design related things that inspire me.  Have a look!

I am thrilled to announce that Rhythm has picked up its first award, winning me Young Designer of the Year and also winning Design of The Year at the recent HOME NZ Design Awards 2008. The awards were presented at an event held at Eon Design Centre and I am sure all who were present can vouch for my resultant speechlessness. Credit must go to my family, my friends, my tutors and my former classmates for being endlessly helpful and inspiring.

More Info about the Home Awards via Eon.

I am delighted to announce that Rhythm will feature in the April/May edition of Home NZ magazine after being selected as one of seven finalists for their Design of the Year awards. The magazine is in print as of April 3rd.

2008 will see me move office from my house to Unitec’s very own The Generator, a move that will hopefully see one or two of my designs see design store shelves by mid year. The Incubator is a creative business space which aims to “assist design graduates to grow their new businesses or progress their commercially viable concepts, and to celebrate the value the creative industries can bring to New Zealand.”

This witty object goes by the name of ‘Time:Progress’ and is designed by Rich, Brilliant, Willing. Their words: “Why make another clock”. I couldn’t agree more.

How’s that for ingenuity! Acorn Studios brings us all down to earth with their range of brilliant ‘Reuse Crafts‘. I will never again throw away a CD spindle. I have already implemented the Cassette Case Business Card Holder!  via planetgreen

Timothy Schrieber’s seductive ‘morphogenesis’ lounger suggests technological advances as a potential way forward for design culture. Where will using new technologies to create pop-organic forms lead? Perhaps to new functions? The optimist in me says as a new cutting edge for design it will lead to interesting places. The arcadian in me would rather find a nice meadow…

My talented father Russell Hohmann and sister Dana Hudson have recently completed an order of three oak & leather stools for a client in Auckland. Lately I’ve been giving them a hand with setting up their new custom furniture venture Silvereye Furniture. Russell has a background in wooden boat building so his eye is practiced and all his woodwork is of a very high standard.