COVID-19 Facial mask · Hinver
Design of a protective face mask UNE-EN-166.
We had the opportunity to collaborate with our colleagues from the Barcelona studio Innou to launch the mass production of a face protection mask that they had planned and we didn’t think it twice.
We knew that this was our opportunity to collaborate altruistically against COVID-19 and also do it from the design management and our day to day.
In just a few weeks, thousands of masks were being manufactured daily under a standard of quality and safety homologated UNE-EN 166. A high-quality product, with adult and child sizes, reusable and very easy to disinfect from which medical personnel benefited free of charge in the hardest months of the pandemic.
But the true magnitude of the project has been:
1. Join forces with other industrial design studios and industrial entrepreneurs to provide the fastest, most sensible and correct solution to the need that the maker collective was trying to cover without really much success.
2. This project represents the enormous capacity of our industries – a valuable social and economic asset to be conserved – and the potential that industrial design offers.
Manufactured by injection of PP and die-cut PET screen, this highly optimized product is adjusted to the European regulations that were created for this specific material.