“I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.” — Marc Newson Quote

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

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

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.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

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

I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

Designing wasn't something that I was always into, but I wasn't able to find clothes that I wanted to wear. I wanted to be able to walk into any store and have an idea of what I want and go and get it.

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England industrialising first.