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
being-yourself originals
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
culture youth popular-culture
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
europe film-music film
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
europe people watches
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
strong japan europe
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
design industry pathetic
The design industry is really pathetic.
agreement people stuff
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
watches trends decades
I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade
character europe personality
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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.
memories space littles
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
australia surfing culture
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.