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Marc Newson，这位来自于澳洲的鬼才设计师，将这股“跨界”风潮发挥到极至。你可以从诸多大品牌的产品里发现他的名字：Nike概念鞋、福特概念车、美标洁具……他所倡导的“柔和极简主义”，将温暖与自然的元素引入他的设计中，减淡高科技工业所带来的冰冷感、坚硬感。 1963年生于悉尼的他在悉尼艺术大学学习珠宝与雕刻艺术。以敏锐、独特的设计角度，迅速成为国际设计界的新宠，迄今跨越多种不同的设计领域与可能，从室内设计、家具桌椅设计、私人喷射机、手表、脚踏车、家饰用品等等。他所创作的“Felt”和“Embryo”椅子，被设计界誉为世界十大值得收藏的椅子：Felt椅面的曲线恰好让一个人悠闲地靠坐在里面，突显了柔软线条，该椅采用了以玻璃纤维强化的聚酯纤维材料来制作；模仿子宫内的胎儿创作的Embryo椅，该作品最大的特点是将雕刻般的造型和柔软的材质有机地结合了起来。这两把椅子可谓是确立了他“柔和极简主义”的设计风格。

澳洲鬼才设计王者：Marc Newson作品

 因为找不到喜欢的手表，所以想要开始设计手表的Marc Newson，在1994年便与瑞士企业家Ike先生携手创造Ikepod腕表。之后在巴黎开设工作室，为不少知名品牌做设计，1994年和Oliver Ike在瑞士共同创立Ikepod钟表公司。1997年转移到伦敦并设立自己的Marc Newson公司，进行范围广泛的设计。接受来自欧洲、北美和亚洲等地顾客的定制，从钟表、椅子、自行车、玻璃器皿设计到餐馆、录音工作室、私人喷气式飞机的内部装修等等都有涉及。Alessi、Flos、Cappellini、Magis、Biomega、Ikepod、福特汽车等各大品牌跟风般不惜重金邀请他为自己的产品设计：和Karl Lagerfeld合作的香水瓶,和替Alessie、Magis.、B&B、American Standard等国际家具公司设计商品等工作。

Marc Newson个人网站：http://www.marc-newson.com/main.html

 Marc Newson负责设计的福特021C概念车，可能是全世界最受年轻人喜爱的概念车。这一次他将一种更具年轻人的乐趣和讨人喜欢的概念付诸汽车制造的实际。如果叫孩子们画一幅他们心目中的汽车，估计和021C有很多相似之处。

2000年奥运会期间，澳大利亚政府要求纽森为澳洲最著名的“白色地标”——悉尼歌剧院做全新包装与设计。结果，他为纯白的歌剧院换上高科技的电子迷幻彩色。巨型的白帆屋项上，闪耀炫目的色彩，反映了堡礁、人焰、流水及大地的影色，显示澳洲的特色。快达航空公司今年新订购的12架A380代表最新远程飞行技术的客机。快达公司力求把它塑造成“超星级飞机”的代表。为此，该公司也请来了纽森协调机舱内部的的设计工作。

 除了政府、航空公司外，世界最大的卫浴品牌——美标也重金请出纽森设计出个人风格十足的套间产品——Moments系列。该套间以极简的设计营造出奢华的风格，大气的黑白灰色调配合极富现代感的几何造型。梳洗柜与台盆相得益彰，从圆形的宽大把手中衍生出独特趣味和想像力。座厕秉承了后工业时期的设计风格，仿佛是对雕塑作品的怀旧。大尺寸的浴缸宽敞舒适、线条简洁、造型规整，却让人联想到华丽的享乐主义。富有创意的旋钮式设计的龙头则在细节中流露出优雅。这一系列，成为了纽森对“柔和极简主义”的再一次成功演绎。

 Marc Newson的名字已经成为新的时尚符号，各大设计类奖项纷纷为他的作品颁奖：芝加哥Athaeneum的优秀设计奖、“ELLE家具”的“设计大奖”；“Homes&Gardens with V&A Museum”的“经典设计大奖”；“设计与装饰大奖”的“最佳洁具设计”。这个“什么都敢设计”的鬼才设计师，成了“用线条造物的新神”。

 对于如此多样化的产出，马克还是希望他所有作品间能有一条线，连贯相同的精神和概念，这就是他所推崇的“柔和极简主义”。所以,当你下一次看到这些如液体般圆滑,有点天真又科技感十足的,一言难尽的赞叹时,不要怀疑,它就是“Marc Newson”。

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妖娆曲线的性感气质 澳洲鬼才设计王者：Marc Newson
http://www.marc-newson.com/main.html…..ummmmmm…. siesta time. I suppose. (ha)
after lunch. you know when you start to fall asleep.
you know (makes snoring noise)…

延伸阅读：
designboom 采访Marc Newson

what is the best moment of the day?

what kind of music do you listen to at the moment?
I’ve always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
ah..you know.. no particular films, but just I like film music
for some weird reason.

do you listen to the radio?
(cough) never. I like the idea of it though.

what books do you have on your bedside table?
oh none, because I don’t have a bedside table.
I don’t even have a bed. I’m staying at a friends house since
… (undistinguishable)

do you read design magazines?
never.

where do you get news from? newspapers?
newspapers.
I do read newspapers, and occasionaly when I’m staying at hotels
in different countries I end up watching CNN unfortunately.

do you notice how women are dressing?
do you have any preferences?
yeah, I think I do. but I don’t have particular preferences in terms of
what they wear. I think it’s more a question of how they wear it.
you know like, there’s many different looks and I think you can wear
any look really really well, I mean if it suits you.
if you wear it well, if your good in your clothes.
I guess it’s more a question of confidence.

what kind of clothes do you avoid wearing?
I never wear a suit, but you know I have to sit with a lot of people who do…
not that there’s anything wrong with wearing suits,
but you know, generally the people that tend to wear them are…
more boring than the ones that don’t.

do you have any pets?
I do not have any pets. no, but I’d really love to have a dog,
if I didn’t travel so much.

when you were a child, what did you want to be?
I was fascinated by the idea of making things.

where do you work on your designs and projects?
I work alot on my designs and projects on aeroplanes.
I know that sounds really clichéd… boring, but to be honest with you,
it’s really the only moments that i have when there’s kind of really
nothing going on, it’s kind of like being in a sensory deprivation tank,
if you don’t have to watch the shit films that they have of course.
….but you know especially on long world trips to japan or something…
15 hours on a plane is a perfect time to really immerse yourself in a project.

when you’re working, do you discuss or exchange ideas with colleagues,
with other designers?
very rarely in fact.
because I find that I normally work the best when I’m on my own,
when I’m in a perfectly kind of silent eviornment.
and the most important thing for me is not to have any stress around,
so in fact when I’m with my colleagues which is to say the people I work
with in my office, I don’t do design.
I don’t design in my office ever….
I answer the telephone, I read email. I work.
I develop designs, I engineer designs on a computer,
but that’s not where the ideas are born.

describe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it.
I don’t even know if there are any good friends that could describe,
stylistically what I do. I’ve never heard anyone describe, what I do, umm,
very well. but (cough) it…
my aim is not… I don’t…it’s just so hard stylistically to kind of classify
what I do. I just dont think there is any…, sometimes it’s round,
sometimes it’s less round… sometimes it’s colors.

the point is with my design, with what I do, whether it’s design or
whether it’s art, because I do everything from designing airplane interiors,
which is like on one level really pure engineering
(ok theres a bit of design there, but it’s mostly engineering).
on the other end of the spectrum, I’m designing sculptures,
things like the lockheed lounge, there’s a whole lot of limited edition
pieces that I designed that are being sold at auctions, and things like that…
… now that’s my fantasy, that’s my pure… emotion just running wild.

no-ones telling me what to do, no-ones’s telling me how to do it.
so I have both of those things at each end of the spectrum, and I’m
doing everything in between from wristwatches to interiors to suitcases
to toilets.

do you think there is an evolution from the begining of your work
until now, in your thoughts, in your forms?
yeah, of course there is, there is a sort of an evolution.
the problem with the word evolution I guess, is that it implies that there
is an end, that you know it’s going…
wel,l it’s gonna end up somewhere, and I don’t know where it’s gonna
end up. it’s evolving, but I don’t know where.
it’s changing. although at the same time I think there’s a thread you know,
I think there’s a link there’s something which attaches each thing I do together,
like a thread… I hope… that’s consistency.

do you have fun working?
sometimes, not all the time.
you know the the big difference between what I do know, and what I did ten
years ago, is that now it’s really a job, now I have people working for me,
now I have a company, now I have responsibilities, now I have to sit in
really boring meetings…
I often find myself in situations though I ask myself what I’m doing there.
so there are aspects of what I do, that I don’t like, but that’s part of mass
production and industry.

which project has given you the most satisfaction?
it’s impossible for me to isolate one particular project that’s given me the
most satisfaction. there are many projects that I’ve done, that I’m happy with.
in fact I’m happy with everything I’ve done. becasue if I wasn’t happy with it…
- it takes two to three years to develop a project, and that’s two to three years -
if you’re not happy with it you kill it… you know (poof) it doesn’t happen…
it happens, if it’s not going well. only about 70 % of my works come to an end.
you know it’s a hell of a lot of work… two or three years.
I’m a big believer in not trying to… uhhh… correct something which is broken.
I believe that you just forget it and start again.

is there any designer and/or architect, you appreciate a lot?
yeah there are many…ummm.
there are really a lot actually when I think about it, people like bruno munari,
many artists actually more so than designers.
although of course I’m fans of people like castiglioni and and other people
from his generation.

and those still active, are there any particular ones you appreciate?
you probably might be surprised when I mention people like the
bouroullec brothers or jasper morrison, or… the usual suspects.

what are you afraid of regarding the future ?
I think I’m afraid of the freneticism, that the kind of hyper-activity that we’re
kind of heading towards, that the sort of inhumanity in terms of the way
we work and the way we live our lives, that we’re kind of ending up in a
point where you know we kind of lose ourselves, and forget ourselves,
or forget what we like doing and how we like to live.