Blunt

Blunt Umbrellas are the brainchild of Kiwi engineer Greig Brebner. While living in London and dealing with rainy commutes Greig noticed how unsafe umbrellas were, being so tall, the spikes often poked him in the eye. He also noticed how umbrellas had become a throwaway commodity, mainly due to poor-quality materials and flimsy, outdated design.

To save his eyes and reduce the number of broken umbrellas that end up as landfill each year, Greig set out to seriously re-invent the umbrella from the ground up, and he began by re-designing the mechanisms.

Going right back to the drawing board, Greig married engineering innovation with no-fuss design styling to create something that exceeded even his own expectations: an outrageously strong umbrella that could handle seriously wild weather.

After pushing countless prototypes to the limits in wind tunnels and on the blustery hills of Auckland, Greig finally did it. He'd re-invented the umbrella. And it just so happened to become the best umbrella in the world.

The Blunt Umbrella gets its name from its snazzy-looking rounded tips, which unlike their pointy counterparts won't take out fellow pedestrians' eyes.

Blunt Umbrellas have smartly-engineered internal structure which makes it durable and extremely wind-resistant. They are 100% stormproof, able to withstand storms and winds of up to 120km/h!

The blunt tips aren't just there to help you avoid unfortunate street altercations, they also keep the fast-drying polyester canopy super-tight. Sure, other umbrellas are wind resistant but the Blunt achieves this in a lightweight, practical design that doesn't turn the concept of an umbrella into a massive space-aged monstrosity, that's a damn feat.