Eternally Yours Time In Design

by Ed Van Hinte

Notes

"Try to make products last longer"

"Because of what we are, it is quite complicated to organize ourselves in such a way that one planet is is sufficient to support us for generations to come"

Making a product last long nowadays is difficult because of technology, launching a better alternative to the previous model happens very often.

Consumption world

No limits

" We have the capacity to achieve great things in art and technology, as well as to cause extreme suffering and tragedies n each other on a daily basis".

"In addition one part of our human condition is addicted to acquiring and collecting for more things around us than we have time to handle"

"Most of what we own, we have difficulty in remembering it exists at all: 'oh yeah I have one of those too!'"

"The less money we have the more we are forced to use it to fulfill our basic needs, like food and shelter, and the more indeed we care about what we possess".

"Consumption can be regarded as an addiction"

 "Clothes are acquired to keep up with fashion, or to feel warm, or just for the thrill of buying"

"By and large we put as much money into products as we can afford, just to be OK until we're dead" (Objects ordered how you would like when your dead, would you care? would you turn in your grave?)

"Marti Guixe, champion of immaterial design""job is to process diamonds as accessible non-luxurious, non-glamourous objects". "Diamonds represent an extremely high concentration of money". (www.guixe.com and www.verylustre.com)

"A posession hierarchy of value"

"Brand new things, products used everyday, objects which one has a special bond, and of course at least one car".

"We don't necessarily feel a bond with things that are used a lot, like household equipment and frustrated when something is wrong with them, or when they're gone".

"Vivian is a new product that has the potential to be kept in use for a longer time" " Vivian should remain at least acceptable despite scratches, discolourations, a few broken parts and possible repairs".

"Design is mostly a one shot deal, meant to present an identity and to immediately convince observers of an idea, or to seduce them to buy, or both".