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
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.
technology process materials
I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
thinking design personality
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
europe design
I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
ordinary-things ordinary taxi
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
art school design
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.