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The design industry is really pathetic.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
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Industry
Pathetic
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If I can feel freedom then I can create.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Feels
I Can
Ifs
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I don't like to make my life like a book.
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But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Being Yourself
Europe
Originals
Be Original
Original
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My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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Kind
Life Style
Style
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I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
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Europe
Furniture
Rooms
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I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
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I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
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Book
Europe
Magazines
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I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
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Culture
Popular Culture
Youth
Youth Culture
Popular
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I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Taxi
Love More Things
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I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Europe
Film
Film Music
Music Always Film
Listened
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I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade
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Decades
Trends
Watches
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To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Happy
Cool
Good
Europe
Good Mood
Mood
Good Mood Good Mood
Create
Well
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You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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Character
Europe
Personality
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And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
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Australia
Culture
Surfing
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I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
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Materials
Process
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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Design
Europe
More Things Than
Designing
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In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Australia
England
Europe
Japan
Strong
Youth
Youth Culture
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I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
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Space
Little Things
Littles
Memories
Reminders
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I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
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Design
Important
Personality
Thinking
Things
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Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
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Snowboarding
Surfing
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With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
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Design
Dresses
Simple
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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
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Architecture
Design
Needs
People
Suggesting
Tend
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I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Europe
Salt
Three
Years
Pepper
Waited
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If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Being Yourself
Just Be Yourself
Like You
Yourself
Like
Just
Because
Then
Be Original
Original
Just Be
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Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
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Design
Europe
School
Limiting
Schools
Visit
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You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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Bottles
Different
Different Things
Europe
People
Perfume
Watches
People Know Things
People Say
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My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists
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Jobs
Looks
Use
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You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
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Agree
Agreement
People
Retro
Stuff
History People Know
People Say
Some People
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If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
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Emotional
Familiar
Giving
Important
Connection
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So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
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Design
Going Away
Stills
Living
Away
Somewhere
Itself
Exists
Go Away
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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.
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Jobs
Creative
People
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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.
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Travel
Different
Inspiration
Asked
Environments
Experiencing
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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.
Marc Newson / Industrial Designer
Europe
Exhibitions
Furniture
Interiors
Magazines
Build
Friend
Slowly
Magazine
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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.
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Dream
Chill
Play
Snowboarding
Surfing
Yeah
Chill Out
Places
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Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Architecture
Fantastic
World
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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.
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Design
Imagine
Light
Thinking
Buy
Shop
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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.
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Creative
Fashion
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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.
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Art
Design
Art School
Chairs
Jewelry
School
Sculpture
Together
Studied
Art Design School
Ended
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I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When I was doing early pieces, I wasn't exactly in love with the idea of building the stuff. I could do it because I had the skills, but I really did it because I couldn't find anyone else to build it for me.
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Building
Evolution
Term
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Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you find it easier to go bigger rather than the other way around. I think a lot of architects have struggled with small things. Whereas if you start small, it's easier to get bigger.
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Giving
Jewelry
Thinking
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I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me. It truly stuns me when people recognize me. Obviously, I'm not a film star, but even at a design exhibition or art exhibition, if someone comes up to me, I'm sort of taken aback. I don't think of myself like that. But if I can have an effect on young designers, that's great - particularly young designers coming from Australia. Europeans grew up with design. The rest of us lived on tidbits of information.
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Art
Taken
Thinking
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I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the future, and I can't help but think that's a positive thing. I'm not sure about the art world, but the design world may be able to offer some solutions. Design is about troubleshooting. As a designer, I ultimately feel like a gun for hire. Companies hire me because they've got a problem. That's kind of what it boils down to. And I think this is a moment in our history where we need different solutions.
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Reflection
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One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country is mine," or "I will make it look this way because it's for an American market and that way for a Chinese market." If you look at all of the Apple products, they are the same everywhere . . . I mean, I can't deny that I love traveling. It's a very healthy thing to be able to appreciate other cultures - or at least witness them firsthand. And all of that goes into helping someone be a good designer, because it's an international business.
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Mean
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One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such a part of life, especially to the world of design. But it's important to understand that they are a tool, as much as a hammer or a saw is a tool. Computers don't help you design. There needs to be more emphasis on training young designers in how to build things. A good writer needs a good vocabulary. A good designer needs to understand his materials and processes. You can't, as a successful designer, pretend to get any respect if you don't know how things are made.
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Design
Successful
Training
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