Marc Newson
Marc Newson
Marc Andrew Newson CBEis an industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. His style uses smooth geometric lines, translucency, strength, transparency and tends to have an absence of sharp edges...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionDesigner
CountryAustralia
inspiration different environment
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.
agreement people stuff
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
europe film-music film
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
design industry pathetic
The design industry is really pathetic.
style kind life-style
My life style in a sense is kind of private.
watches trends decades
I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade
europe
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
europe exhibitions stuff
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.
europe people watches
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
book europe magazines
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
design going-away stills
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
people design needs
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
being-yourself originals
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
europe good-mood mood
To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.