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
dream snowboarding play
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.
simple design dresses
With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
school europe design
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
years europe salt
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
emotional giving important
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
fashion creative design
The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.
feels i-can ifs
If I can feel freedom then I can create.
jobs looks use
My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists
europe rooms furniture
I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
jobs people creative
I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.
being-yourself like-you just-be-yourself
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
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.
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.
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.