This time of year always brings a few gems from outside Hackaday’s usual circle, as students attending industrial design colleges release their final year projects, The worlds of art and engineering sit very close together at times, and theirs is a discipline which sits firmly astride that line. This is amply demonstrated by the work of [Charlie Humble-Thomas], who has taken an everyday object, the umbrella, and used it to pose the question: How long should objects last?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/05/10/an-umbrella-can-teach-a-thing-or-two-about-product-longevity/