$405,476 raised out of $20,000
Overview
Platform
Indiegogo
Backers
13
Start date
Jan 16, 2021
Close date
Jan 17, 2021
Concept

A HEPA-enabled face mask that protects you and your identity while highlighting your personal style

Story

Introducing Blanc — the one and only full-face modular mask.

Blanc protects your eyes, nose and mouth from the outside world. All air is filtered through 2 high-efficiency reusable and replaceable HEPA filters, ensuring clean, fresh air with every breath.

Keep your identity secure behind its opaque changeable front panels. Adjust the mask to your outfit or any occasion in 2 quick movements. Unclip the existing front panel, and effortlessly snap the new one in place.

Blanc is not just a face mask. Its modular design allows you to customize your own Blanc to your needs, and express your persona to the world. Your Blanc offers:

*Add-on module voice modulation will be released shortly after the campaign, and will be fully functional with your Kickstarter Blanc mask.
**Add-on modules climate control and Bluetooth will be released shortly after the campaign, and will be fully functional with your Kickstarter Blanc mask.

 

Next-Generation Protection

Blanc is more than an accessory to highlight your one of a kind personality and reflect your current mood. Thanks to its comfortable air-tight fit, all air you breathe is sent through 2 SGS-tested replaceable HEPA filters.

These high-efficiency filters purify the air you breathe in real-time, ensuring continuous protection wherever you go.

Blanc is a high-quality accessory that offers you a comfortable breathing experience when worn. Each mask comes with a pack of 2x HEPA filters that deliver you clean and purified air for up to 14 days (on average).

We all understand the benefits of wearing face masks, but not all masks are created equal. Regular masks offer a less-than-adequate fit, allowing air to spill through the gaps.

So, how is Blanc different?

 

HEPA filters, or high-efficiency particulate air filters, are a special form of mechanical air filters that force air through a multi-layered fine mesh of angled micro-fibers. This traps harmful particles such as pollen, pet dander, tobacco smoke, pollution and dust mites.

Each mask comes with a pack of 2 HEPA filters. Each pack will purify the air you breathe for up to 14 days.

 

Media About Blanc

For PR inquiries contact david@blancmasks.com

The Mask That Suits Your Style

You choose your clothes, your hairstyle… but regular face masks all look the same. And by extension, regular people wearing regular face masks all look the same.

Blanc disrupts the new normal in fashion and safety, with a mask that not only protects your health, but sets you apart from the crowd.

Express your creativity whether you are taking a walk in the park, sitting in front of your computer at the office, or enjoying your evening with friends at a club.

Never settle for the ordinary. With its interchangeable magnetic panels, you can easily customize your Blanc’s front panel with different materials, textures, and colors to express yourself.

Put on your best look. Make every outfit count. This is your mask. This is you.

 
 

Become The One Behind The Mask

You know that feeling when you put sunglasses on? When no one can see where you’re looking?

Where regular masks only cover part of what matters, Blanc not only protects your health — It protects your identity!

In a world where privacy is increasingly invaded, both online and out in the real world, you need a way to keep your identity off-grid. Away from face-recognition cameras and nosy onlookers. A way to protect your privacy and allow you to regain control of your visual identity, emotions, and expressions.

With Blanc’s full-facial opaque protection, you decide when, where, and with whom you share your personal facial information.

 

The anonymous hero. Or the secret villain. Everyone wants to know who the man behind the mask is. Be bold, shroud yourself in mystery, and show the world you don’t follow the status quo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USE CASES

If you are looking for a solution to take style, privacy to new heights, Blanc Mask is tailored to you! As technology continues to improve, the way we equip ourselves for the day to day should improve as well.

 

Full-Facial Protection 24/7

Are regular masks just not cutting it for you? Changing them every 4 hours? Constantly buying new ones?

This may be an adequate short-term solution, but when you start adding up the cost of wearing disposable masks every day, changing them 4 times a day as recommended… you’ll end up spending over $500 a year!

Blanc is the full-facial protection you can wear and forget about. There’s no danger of touching your face, or of the mask’s HEPA filters wearing out over the course of the day.

 

Walk Around In A Bubble Of Fresh Air

High-Efficiency Particulate Air filters have been used for years to clean and purify the air in interior spaces. From bedrooms to factory floors, indoor air quality is assured through these durable filters.

Now, Blanc brings that same high indoor air quality to your face. The SGS-tested HEPA filters trap all particles, creating a safe breathing environment around your nose, eyes and mouth.

 

180-Degree Airtight Seal

Everyone knows they need to be wearing masks. But it’s hard to argue their effectiveness when you see their flimsy material and poor fit. The huge gaps around the edges let a stream of unfiltered air in every time you breathe.

Blanc isn’t just a piece of cloth loosely draped across your mouth. Blanc mask is designed to ergonomically fit against your face, creating an airtight enclosure, and only feeding you air filtered through its high-efficiency HEPA filters.

 

All-Day Comfort

Regular masks’ thin straps dig into your skin, and are constantly slipping down, making you touch them and reposition them — a big no no according to the authorities!

With Blanc, there’s no need for readjustments throughout the day. The interior chamber of Blanc is crafted to ergonomically adjust to your face. And its super-comfortable wide headband perfectly locks the mask in place, without stretching your ears or squeezing your head.

Whether you are taking a subway to work, on a long flight, or going out to a cyber-punk underground party with friends — regardless of what you’re doing, you can rest assured that Blanc is kept firmly in place.

 

Unmask Blanc

To enjoy your Blanc mask, you need only these three accessories, that comes inside the box:

  • 1x Blanc Mask (see #1)
  • 2x Magnetic front panels of your choice (see #2)
  • 1 Set of replaceable and reusable HEPA filters (see #3)

Get More Done With Your Blanc Mask

 

 

A Mask That Evolves With You

Wearing a mask shouldn’t be an annoyance. It should be a possibility!
Blanc is here to revolutionize the way we see masks, opening the doors to practical and cool everyday add-ons that make your life easier and more fun.

By open sourcing aspects of Blanc’s design, we’re developing an ecosystem of mask upgrades, from voice modulators to Bluetooth headsets, HUDs and augmented reality systems. You will be able to upgrade your mask with Blanc’s add-ons in the near future.

For centuries, face masks have been used during parties to let the wearer have a little bit of fun without showing who they actually were. Blanc goes beyond that!

You won’t find anything like this in the world. Its full-face form covers your whole face and allows you to regain control of your visual identity, emotions, and expressions anywhere you have it on.

Change the way you see the world. Change the way the world sees you.

 

Get to Know Blanc

We’ve designed Blanc Mask with your privacy and your desire for individuality in mind. It consists of two vertical symmetrical parts which fold together. Using a simple “face wash” gesture with the palms of your hands, you can lock the two sides of your mask together at the midline of your face.

Thanks to its ergonomic design, it easily adjusts to your anatomical features, making for a supremely comfortable fit.

Technical Specifications

 

Shipping Information

Blanc ships worldwide. Because creativity doesn’t have limits, and neither does Blanc.

We offer custom-friendly shipping to USA, Canada, the EU, UK and Australia

Shipping will be charged after the campaign is over via our pledge manager software. Thanks to our pledge manager, you’ll be able update your shipping address, choose and add extra features to your Blanc mask, and more… 😉

Below you can find the shipping estimates for all Blanc rewards.

 

Timeline

 

OUR STORY

We are a team of renowned product designers, engineers, and marketing specialists led by a duo of serial entrepreneurs with a 10+ years corporate footprint of building, protecting, and reviving brands for IT companies and startups worldwide.

The few things we had in common before 2020 was — and is — good all-around IT expertise, keen interest in tech and innovation, and profound global market vision. The new thing that sparked our creativity and helped us created Blanc is the 2020 and the challenges we’ve faced during these few months as a team.

We started working on the concept and the product philosophy behind it in April of 2020, and have gone a long and winding road of developing the whole new product category.

After thinking for a while, we decided to name our new product “Blanc” — one can switch the magnetic front panels in 5-10 seconds, creating a whole new mask from the outside. You decide what you are willing to broadcast to the outside world — which harmonies, mood, and emotions to relay, and which to keep.

 

DISCLAIMER

Blanc does not imply or claim to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent an illness or condition (whether via a device itself or its parts/components).

We created Blanc to highlight the wearer’s creativity, individuality, provide them with protection and privacy, and by no means promote social anarchy and illegal activities. Visual protection and privacy imply responsible usage of the wearer. We are not revolutionaries: Blanc Inc. as well as any of its affiliates do not associate themselves with any manifestations of using Blanc during illegal and/or anti-social activities.

Some US states have anti-mask laws, as do a few other countries. Please make sure you check on the law, before putting the mask on in public.

We believe in Blanc masks’ highest quality and have promised to provide a 100% money-back guarantee with your mask. However, the new regulation states that there’ll be ” no return for personal goods that touched the person’s face.” This means we have to remove the “30-Day Satisfaction Guarantee,” which we’ve promised earlier.

However, being confident in the quality of our mask, we want to ask you to contact us at hello@blancmasks.com if you have any concerns, and we’ll be happy to view your case individually and make everything right for you.

 

 

Risks and challenges

This is our first campaign and our first Kickstarter!

We have put in enormous energy and hours in developing Blanc Mask and, as of today, have a few effectively working examples ready.

We clearly understand that no project is without risks and challenges, but we have done our best to minimize them — discussed the development and logistics issues with our partners from all over the world, calculated production timing development.

If our Kickstarter campaign is successful, we’ll deliver rewards on time, as presented in the timeline above. In case we have delays for whatever reason, we’ll immediately update you on it.

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