Ryan Botha is a mastermind at playing with design elements
Meet Botha, the creative mind behind homeware, stationery and gift brands aLoveSupreme and TRUE
Three words that describe your design style?
Quirky. Bold. Colourful.
What's the difference between aLoveSupreme and TRUE?
We created TRUE as a classic, contemporary range to appeal to a sophisticated customer. Originally, we were going to make it a monotone range, so that it would not directly compete with the more colourful aLoveSupreme. After looking around we realised everyone was doing monotone and that market felt a little bit saturated, so we went with black and gold, which we find stylish and elegant.
What's your design process?
I illustrate an array of elements and then play around with them until designs fall together. I then select a range of ideas with different "personalities", but which all still fit together as a family. Sometimes the final product can be a series of happy accidents.
Good design is ...
I love design that tells a story aesthetically.A product you'd love to make one day?
A series of Chuck Taylor high tops with aLoveSupreme designs.If there was one item you could buy right now for your home, what would it be?
A proper fireplace. We did renovations a while back and installed a gas fireplace. What a mistake...
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