Marc Newson Quotes

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

I don't like to make my life like a book.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

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.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

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.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

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.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

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.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.