Quotes from Marc Newson


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


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


In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.


If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.


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


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


I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.


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


I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.


I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.


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


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


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


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 don't have any furniture of mine in my room.


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


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.


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


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


My life style in a sense is kind of private.