Marc Newson Quotations

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.

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.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

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.

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.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,

It doesn't ever really change my methods or the way I do things, I always approach things in the same way, think about things in the same way, get inspired in the same way. I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

Yeah, just designing stuff, but I don't think there's any big difference between chairs, cars, jewelry or anything. It's all design.

It was a crazy dream, a dream that I never really thought I would be able to realize. Oddly enough it took an art gallery in Paris to make that possible rather than the aviation industry. It really was Boy's Own stuff.

But if you are an artist then you don't have to just make pictures on canvas. It's just about expression and expressing yourself.

I approach design in a fairly subliminal way which is lucky because I don't have time to think about it too much.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

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.

The design industry is really pathetic.

I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

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.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.