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Marc Newson
Australian
Designer
About the author
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Space
#Memories
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Open
If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Travel
#Inspiration
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Books
I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Love
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Youth
#Popular
#Culture
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Film
#Music
If I can feel freedom then I can create.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Freedom
I don't like to make my life like a book.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Life
So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Want
#Time
#Light
#Design
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Connection
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Youth
#Culture
#England
My life style in a sense is kind of private.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Life
#Style
#Sense
Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Now
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#People
#Architecture
#Design
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Living
#Design
Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Friend
To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Art
#Study
#School
#Design
#Sculpture
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Work
#Play
#Dream
#Months
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Character
#Personality
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#People
#History
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Personality
#Design
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#People
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Years
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Culture
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer
#Design
#Visit
#Schools
I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
Marc Newson,
Australian
Designer