Marc Newson Quotes

• I’d love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

  Marc Newson

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

  Marc Newson

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

  Marc Newson

• I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

  Marc Newson

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

  Marc Newson

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

  Marc Newson

• I don’t like to make my life like a book.

  Marc Newson

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

  Marc Newson

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

  Marc Newson

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

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

  Marc Newson

Marc Newson (31)

Birth:	20th October, 1963
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Industrial Designer, Novelist

About

Marc Andrew Newson is an industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. He incorporates a design style known as biomorphism to his various designs. This style uses smooth flowing lines, translucency, transparency and tends to have an absence of sharp edges.

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