Marc Newson Quotes

A collection of quotes by Marc Newson.

Marc Newson is an accomplished industrial designer hailing from Sydney, Australia. Born in 1963, he is renowned for his innovative and futuristic designs that seamlessly blend art with functionality. With a career spanning over three decades, Newson has collaborated with prominent brands like Apple, Louis Vuitton, and Nike. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to the design world, including a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to design. His work often reflects a fascination with organic shapes and new materials, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in design.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewh

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 stu

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.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by su

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

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools,

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

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that i

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.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6

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.

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

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

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a lig

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 think it's really important to design things with a kind o

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