MARC NEWSON

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

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

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

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.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

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.

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

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

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

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.