Marc Newson Design Quotations

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

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 suggesting you need to train.

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.

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

I approach design in a fairly subliminal way which is lucky because I don't have time to think about it too much.

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.

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

The design industry is really pathetic.

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.