This design challenges that condition. Rather than shielding through enclosure, the canopy form is inverted, its profile lifted into a wide, outward curve that opens the user's field of view and reframes their relationship to the environment around them. The gesture is deliberate: where the traditional form pulls inward, this one reaches outward.

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Showcased in Wanted Design, ICFF.

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Finding the right form was central to the process. The canopy explores a hyperbolic geometry, a shape that doesn't just curve but carries gesture, as if caught mid-motion by the wind rather than held against it. The handle received equal attention. A small notch naturally orients the hand and suggests direction without demanding it, working below the level of conscious thought. Both details serve the same intent. An umbrella is the boundary between you and the weather, and that boundary has a feeling.