62 Quotes by Marc Newson

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.

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 of personality.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists.

I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there’s no one like you.

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

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

I’m interested in youth culture and popular culture.