The design industry is really pathetic.
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me. It truly stuns me when people recognize me. Obviously, I'm not a film star, but even at a design exhibition or art exhibition, if someone comes up to me, I'm sort of taken aback. I don't think of myself like that. But if I can have an effect on young designers, that's great - particularly young designers coming from Australia. Europeans grew up with design. The rest of us lived on tidbits of information.
I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
I don't like to make my life like a book.
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
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.
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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.
One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country is mine," or "I will make it look this way because it's for an American market and that way for a Chinese market." If you look at all of the Apple products, they are the same everywhere . . . I mean, I can't deny that I love traveling. It's a very healthy thing to be able to appreciate other cultures - or at least witness them firsthand. And all of that goes into helping someone be a good designer, because it's an international business.
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
