Quote

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Saul Griffith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saul Griffith
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
Inventor
Sydney
NSW
Last
Respects
Means
Consumer
Many
Crap
Mean
Consumers
Long
Products
Design
Heirloom
Saying
Heirlooms
Lasts
Designing

More quotes by Saul Griffith

Image
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
Saul Griffith
Image
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.
Saul Griffith
Image
Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.
Saul Griffith
Image
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
Saul Griffith
Image
We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.
Saul Griffith