Name: Coronavirus: how a leading tech designer turned to making rag masks l FT
Uploaded: 2020-04-15T16:55:52.000Z
Duration: 3 min 41 s
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I worked at Apple on the original iPhone.

which was sold to Twitter, and became the Twitter client

And now, I'm one of the creators of the Ragmask project.

The Ragmask project is a set of extremely simple, extremely

fast-to-manufacture plans for face masks.

And I tried following a few of the plans online.

And I'm not an experienced sewer by any stretch

was much simpler to create, something that I could follow.

I guess my philosophy is, I can't think about something

So if I can get some fabric in my hands and a sewing machine,

eventually good ideas will fall out of it.

just happens to be extremely easy to make.

We have like two or three more versions coming.

And I'm thinking of it more as a technology product rather than

We're up to version 2.2, 2.3 is coming tonight.

And they're each going to be refined in some way.

Do you have one of the masks there, by any chance?

I don't have one of the ones on the website now.

But I have one of the ones that I'm working on.

We're trying to make it even simpler to make.

of rags, dish towels, sheets, old pillowcases.

So this one, where we're telling people, it's not out yet,

but we basically just put loops on the ends.

And then people can take shoelaces, or anything else

We're going to deliver masks without any straps at all,

and they're going to supply their own straps.

And it saves us a lot of time and material.

Really, all you need is a needle and thread,

A few people now have hand-stitched them.

If you have a sewing machine, it goes a lot faster.

You really want to wear any kind of mask.

Even if you don't have a needle and thread,

You can fold up anything with two rubber bands

I mean, that's more effective than nothing.

How do you know that these masks are effective?

Because you're not filtering the virus itself.

You're filtering out droplets, which are much,

But you're reducing the radius of aerosols

coming out of your mouth and infecting one another.

confident that they're effective in some way.

On the wider public perception of mask wearing,

Whether you think everyone should wear them

I feel like most of the people watching this video probably

aren't wearing pants, because everyone's at home.

Like, no one can tell if I'm wearing pants right now.

But culturally, if you do have to leave the house

- which you should avoid - you would put on pants.

And I think the shift that needs to happen

is if you put on your pants, you should put on a mask.

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