Marc Newson Quotes

• 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 some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it’s all different things.

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

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

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

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

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• My life style in a sense is kind of private.

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

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

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• 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.

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• If I can feel freedom then I can create.

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

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• I’m interested in youth culture and popular culture.

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

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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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