Hasta La Ideas

Australian designer Robin Bristow was in his kitchen and needed a funnel, but didn’t have one. So he hacked one up using the flat lid of an ice cream container. Rather than throwing it out afterwards he held on to it, and surprised himself by how often he used it.

After field-testing some prototypes with a local Meals on Wheels affiliate and refining the design, Bristow had batches of his Bigmouth Flat-Pack Funnel made in several different sizes, locating a local plastic supplier and laser cutting facility. Last November, he won a 2012 Sydney Design Award for his troubles.

Here’s the interesting thing: Although laser-cut, as you can kind of make out in this photo, the edge quality isn’t fantastic:

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