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The Umbuster,  | International Design Awards Winners
The Umbuster,  | International Design Awards Winners

The Umbuster

Lead Designers
Prize(s)Gold in Accessory / Travel Accessories
Entry Description

The Umbuster is an Umbrella with an ergonomically positioned knuckle duster handle configuration.*

Presented in handle options of treated aluminiums and wood qualities, with canopy colour combinations to suit.

* The Umbuster has been classified a Class 5 weapon by good and upright men and women of the Victorian Police, and is considered similarly so in many countries. To have and to hold this accessory requires a weapons license and, or gun license.

Bio

My own blood gets on everything I make - one day auctioneers may gene test my work for authentication

I was a very detached child... living partly in this world.. and mostly in my head.

Sruli Recht- Made to measure - Jerusalem 1979
Migrated like a broken Sea Bird, Johannesburg South Africa - Melbourne Australia - European Nomad landed in Reykjavik Iceland

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Sruli Recht graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Bachelor Degree in Fashion Design in 2002, and receives his Design Honors Degree in 2008.


In the past 8 years he split himself between -

Film and Video installation costume
Many Many Made to Measure projects
Pattern cutter and show-piece maker for Alexander McQueen
In top secret research and development for high tech fabric developers
Head designer and consultant for fashion labels in Iceland and Australia

?and his products, garments and artwork have been exhibited through Asia, Australia, Scandinavia, Russia the Americas and Europe.?

post script - all entries are solid real world objects and not 3D renders.