If I can feel freedom then I can create.
— Marc Newson
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.
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
I don't like to make my life like a book.
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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.
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.
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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.
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
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.
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
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.
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
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 sort of open to do anything, I was free.
I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
