Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah create "spectacular" bronze face shield
Architect Tosin Oshinowo and designer Chrissa Amuah have made the conceptual, jewellery-like Egaro face shield for this year's Design Miami.
Oshinowo and Amuah created the Egaro face shield with car brand Lexus as part of its Freedom to Move project at Design Miami. The brief was to respond to 2020, prompting the duo to look into the design of face coverings, which have become ubiquitous following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
A pattern is etched into the bronze shield
"Our research led us to think about the head in history and how today the utilitarian face mask is our form of protection ? so why not make that spectacular"" Oshinowo told Dezeen.
Two curved brass plates form the shield over the face and are decorated with a stencil design that is intended to reference an African fractal rhythm and breathing. Oshinowo and Amuah created a matching transparent design
"The pattern that is etched onto the visor is called? Breathe?, which is inspired by the pulmonary veins of the lungs," the two explained.
Worn like a headband, the face shield has a 3D-printed white nylon frame that extends in a cross over the front. The vertical part is wave shaped and punctuated by two bars at the end, while the horizontal part is curved and ends in two downward-facing bars.
Oshinowo and Amuah worked on the project in Lagos, Nigeria, where Oshinowo is based and runs her architecture studio, to create Egaro, which is named after a site in Niger.
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