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Marc Newson [1963-0] Australian

Rank: 104
Designer, Industrial designer

Marc Andrew Newson CBE is an industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing.

Design, Cool, Alone, Architecture, Freedom, Good, History, Space, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.	Cool, Good	101
Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.		102
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.	Design	103
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.		104
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.		105
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.	Alone, Cool	106
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.	History	107
My life style in a sense is kind of private.		108
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.		109
If I can feel freedom then I can create.	Freedom	110
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.		111
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.	Design	112
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.	Travel	113
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.		114
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.	Space	115
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.		116
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.		117
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.	Architecture, Design	118
I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.		119
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.	Design	120
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.		121
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.	Design	122
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.		123
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.	Design	124
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.		125
I don't like to make my life like a book.		126
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.		201
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.		202
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.		203
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.		204
I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.		205

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