Aug 31 2006
The Lotus 23 Umbrella — A Better Brolly
(A reminder that entries for our Umbrella Inside-Out Design Comp close on 1 Sept 06.) We like Andy Wanna’s thinking. As with most successful product design, he came at the issue from a personal perspective. Umbrellas invariably blow-out, and bend their metal stays. It annoyed him. So he set out to overcome these fundamental design flaws. And at least conceptually, he seems to have got a result. The Lotus 23 brolly (called after its inspirational namesake, and his age at time of design) is similar to Crocs (see recent discussion), in that it is not inherently green — it uses ABS plastic, Tyvek and Teflon — but by other criteria,
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