The Faculty of Interior Design at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow is also helping in the fight against the pandemic. Tomasz Wójcik, PhD, and Hubert Albertusiak, PhD, created a design for a protective visor that anyone can make on their own.
"The anti-aerosol visor" was made using laser-cutting technology from one-millimeter-thick PET film and consists of three interlocking components: a mask, a visor and a band with adjustable circumference. The whole allows the visor to be worn directly on the forehead or on a baseball cap. According to Dr. Tomasz Wojcki:
The idea for the design of this visor was born at the very beginning of our forced quarantine. The prototype was created from a piece of PET film I had at home. Within two days, Hubert Albertusiak and I refined the prototype for the technology to make it. This project does not require any additional materials in the form of rivets, rubber bands or 3D printing [...]. To date, we have cut about a hundred visors from literally the last plates purchased from Tuplex and our departmental resources.
The visor can be worn in two ways
Photo: Hubert Albertusiak © Tomasz Wójcik, Hubert Albertusiak
The visors are being produced all the time in the model and mock-up laboratory at the Department of Interior Design. They have been donated to doctors from the MSWiA Hospital in Cracow and outpatient clinics (including NZOZ Na Wzgórzach, NZOZ Os. Niepodległości, NZOZ Koźmice Wielkie, NZOZ Strzelców Street). They also found a use among the employees of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. The upcoming batch of visors will be donated to the University Hospital on Jakubowskiego Street in Krakow.
© Tomasz Wójcik, Hubert Albertusiak
You, too, can make such visors, just download design files from our website, or the website of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.
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illustrations courtesy of Tomasz Wojcik and Hubert Albertusiak
