“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” –John Maeda #ByrneDesign “Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.” –Massimo Vignelli #ByrneDesign "Design is thinking made visual." - Saul Bass “Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” –Charles Eames #ByrneDesign “People ignore designs that ignore people” –Frank Chimero #ByrneDesign “Creativity is nothing but a mind set free.” –Torrie T. Asai #ByrneDesign "Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you." - Grace Coddington. Color is a creative element, not a trimming. — PIET ZWART #ByrneDesign "Even when I enter a space... I listen to what the space says - the walls, the windows. You can't change what the space wants to be." - Lella Vignelli #ByrneDesign "The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life." - Marie Kondo #ByrneDesign "Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love." - Nate Berkus #ByrneDesign "A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy." - Juan Montoya #ByrneDesign "If you love something, it will work. That's the only real rule." - Bunny Williams #ByrneDesign “I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.” #ByrneDesign “But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.” - Marian Bantjes #ByrneDesign “There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” - Milton Glaser #ByrneDesign “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry #ByrneDesign Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci #ByrneDesign #ByrneDesign “Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.” –Nicholas Negroponte I always return to nature for colour inspiration. #ByrneDesign