Australian - Designer | October 20, 1963 -
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
Marc Newson
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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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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
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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.
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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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I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
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Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
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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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If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
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You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
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I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
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