Documentry: Marc Newson Urban Spaceman

On today's Design and Technology lesson we were shown a documentary on Mark Newson who is a  industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. 


I most definitely enjoyed the documentary and realized that even though I have recently been looking into more design,  I should look up more into the stories of famous designers since they can really influence yourself. By this I mean that you can find out about values, ways of working, attitudes etc. what you personally want to or not to have.
Interesting points what Newson made were around design and manufacturing. I can see how just a really well manufactured product can be the biggest element of beautiful design. An example of this is are Apple keyboards. Even the design in a way is quiet simple the keyboard base is made of one solid piece of aluminium, it doesn't have any joints which makes it feel quiet strong. 

I did like a lot of his style of going around to different places to find the best ways of build products. I often feel that people often get quiet limited of how things are done in their countries/cultures. I would like to see myself as designer who would have a quiet various background and knowledge of people, products and cultures.

Marc Newson has also done a lot of design which has been flirting with art. I do think that product design most definitely has an element of art in it but I do personally not like when you kill the functionality in the name of art. If a chair is beautiful it is obviously a plus but if you can't really sit on it why don't you just call it a sculpture? The chair he first designed was quiet interesting as a sculpture but as a chair quiet awful...

If you are interested on the documentary you can watch it for free at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoS71sBKESI