Quotes from Marc Newson

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

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

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.

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.

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

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

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

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

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

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.

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.