I’ve always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
About Marc Newson
Marc Andrew Newson is an Australian industrial designer, creative director, and artist who, in a career spanning nearly four decades, has worked in many industry sectors including furniture, product, and transportation design, luxury goods, fashion, and fine art. His work is primarily characterized by smooth geometric lines, organic shapes, an absence of sharp edges, and the use of transparency and translucency.
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If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there’s no one like you.
Australian industrial designer
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.
Australian industrial designer
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it’s all different things.
Australian industrial designer
My life style in a sense is kind of private.
Australian industrial designer
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
Australian industrial designer
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.
Australian industrial designer
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
Australian industrial designer
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
Australian industrial designer
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
Australian industrial designer
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
Australian industrial designer
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.
Australian industrial designer
I don’t like to make my life like a book.
Australian industrial designer
If I can feel freedom then I can create.
Australian industrial designer
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
Australian industrial designer
I don’t have any furniture of mine in my room.
Australian industrial designer
To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
Australian industrial designer
I’d love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
Australian industrial designer
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
Australian industrial designer
I think it’s really important to design things with a kind of personality.
Australian industrial designer
I’m interested in youth culture and popular culture.
Australian industrial designer
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
Australian industrial designer
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
Australian industrial designer
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
Australian industrial designer
So if I design it and then go away, it’s still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
Australian industrial designer
I’ve always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
Australian industrial designer
I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
Australian industrial designer
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.
Australian industrial designer
Now I’m doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
Australian industrial designer
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
Australian industrial 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.
Australian industrial designer
You know that’s history, that’s why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don’t agree.
Australian industrial designer