Julia Lohmann

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Julia Lohmann ( born 1977, Germany ) is a multidisciplinary designer living and working in London. She works with unusual and undervalued natural and manmade materials. Lohmann’s work probes our attitudes towards the world that sustains us. Lohmann set up her own design studio in London in 2004. She is a visiting lecturer at a number of UK design schools.

Biography

Born in Hildesheim, Germany, Julia Lohmann came to the United Kingdom in 1998 to study on the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College (now the University College for the Creative Arts). She graduated in 2001 and won several prizes for her graphic design and product development work. She subsequently completed a two-year MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London in 2004. Upon graduation, Julia Lohmann’s work was selected for the ‘Design Mart’ exhibition at the Design Museum, London, by then director Alice Rawsthorn. Since then, Lohmann’s work has been shown as part of the ‘Great Brits’ touring exhibition organised by the British Council and numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums in the UK and abroad, as well as The Culture Show (BBC, 2007), in books, international magazines and newspapers.