Daniel Moynihan Design

Successful designs inspire emotion, evoke meaning and sentiment, and even earn affection.

Robust designs sweat the small stuff. The care, empathy, and concern for the relationship between human and object that inform the process shine through.

Disparate formal elements should unite in symbiosis: distinct, yet coherent.

Thorough designs appeal to all of our senses, taking into account texture, weight, balance, temperature, and acoustics.

Thorough design attends not only to the object itself, but also to the space around the object.

A design should have enough integrity that no part of it needs to pretend to be anything it is not.

Honesty to material and process—letting their distinctive attributes shine through instead of hiding them—adds to the beauty of the finished product.

Unassuming, everyday objects demand respect for their time-tested conventions, but invite expressive design nevertheless.

A simple act, or change, or gesture can infuse a familiar object with layers and complexity.

With a sense of adventure, even well-established categories are less confining than they might seem.