Punched flat
By Lauren Bartlett,
A flat victory in the paper wars
Gavin Donaldson was frustrated enough to punch something. The Auckland architecture student battled a never-ending paper war, constantly receiving loose sheets in lectures.
“I’d get home from uni and have all these papers stuffed in my ring-binder and floating around in my bag, and then I’d have to sort and file them,” Donaldson says. Cue the Punchit. After three years working on the design, Donaldson has created a world first: a lightweight lie-flat hole-punch that takes up hardly any space and fits in a ring-binder. Now Donaldson can punch-and-file on the spot. He’s applied for patents in New Zealand and worldwide and got his invention into Office Max stores. Now, not only students, but lawyers, accountants and office workers are finally winning the War on Paper.
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