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Marc Andrew Newson CBE (born 20 October 1963) is an industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. His style uses smooth geometric lines, translucency, strength, transparency, and tends to have an absence of sharp edges.[citation needed]

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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.

Art, Different, Period, Questioning, Reflection, Thinking

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.

Building, Evolution, Love, Skills, Term

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

Design, Kind, Personality, Think, Thinking

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.

Buy, Design, Imagine, Light, Thinking

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

Designer, Job, Jobs, Looks, Reference, Use

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.

Design, Designer, Practical, Respect, Successful, Training

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

Character, Europe, Know, Like, Personality

The design industry is really pathetic.

Design, Industry, Pathetic

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.

Build, Europe, Exhibitions, Friend, Magazines, Stuff

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

Book, Books, Buy, Europe, Magazines

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

Europe, Free, Open, Sort

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

Materials, Process, Processes, Technologies, Technology

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

Europe, Salt, Three, Waited, Years

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

Culture, Interested, Popular Culture, Youth

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

Connection, Emotional, Gives, Giving, Important, See

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.

Architecture, Fantastic, Project, Related, World

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

Create, Feels, Freedom, I Can, Ifs

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

Book, Life, Like, Make

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

Design, Designing, Europe, Interested, Making, Things

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

Being Yourself, Europe, Original, Originals

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