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
matter object process prototype whether
The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,
approach change fascinated inspired methods
It doesn't ever really change my methods or the way I do things, I always approach things in the same way, think about things in the same way, get inspired in the same way. I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
designing difference jewelry
Yeah, just designing stuff, but I don't think there's any big difference between chairs, cars, jewelry or anything. It's all design.
Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
art aviation crazy dream gallery oddly paris possible rather took
It was a crazy dream, a dream that I never really thought I would be able to realize. Oddly enough it took an art gallery in Paris to make that possible rather than the aviation industry. It really was Boy's Own stuff.
artist expressing expression pictures
But if you are an artist then you don't have to just make pictures on canvas. It's just about expression and expressing yourself.
approach design fairly lucky time
I approach design in a fairly subliminal way which is lucky because I don't have time to think about it too much.
memories space littles
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
book
I don't like to make my life like a book.
thinking light design
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.
culture youth popular-culture
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
strong japan europe
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
character europe personality
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
australia surfing culture
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.