Marc Newson Quotes
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To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
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I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
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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.
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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.
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You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
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You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
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If I can feel freedom then I can create.
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If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
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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.
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I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
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I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me. It truly stuns me when people recognize me. Obviously, I'm not a film star, but even at a design exhibition or art exhibition, if someone comes up to me, I'm sort of taken aback. I don't think of myself like that. But if I can have an effect on young designers, that's great - particularly young designers coming from Australia. Europeans grew up with design. The rest of us lived on tidbits of information.
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But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
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I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
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My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists
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Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
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In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
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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.
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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
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The design industry is really pathetic.
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I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
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I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
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I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
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Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.
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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.
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I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the future, and I can't help but think that's a positive thing. I'm not sure about the art world, but the design world may be able to offer some solutions. Design is about troubleshooting. As a designer, I ultimately feel like a gun for hire. Companies hire me because they've got a problem. That's kind of what it boils down to. And I think this is a moment in our history where we need different solutions.
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One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country is mine," or "I will make it look this way because it's for an American market and that way for a Chinese market." If you look at all of the Apple products, they are the same everywhere . . . I mean, I can't deny that I love traveling. It's a very healthy thing to be able to appreciate other cultures - or at least witness them firsthand. And all of that goes into helping someone be a good designer, because it's an international business.
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So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
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You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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