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 As critical as they are to our collective health, face masks can make conversation a little harder. Those with hearing loss can face greater communication challenges. When facial expressions disappear under two layers of cotton and lipreading becomes impossible. 

Face masks help to protect from COVID-19 but make communication for not native speakers harder. Research shows that people with other mother-tongue than English receive less visual information and it can cause misunderstanding.

Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah created the conceptual face shield. It was created for the Freedom to Move project at 2020 Design Miami. The shield has a 3D-printed white nylon frame that extends in a cross over the front. 

The project “That face” in Japan is ready to pay for the possibility to use people’s faces.  The company is creating 3D-printed masks with people’s faces on them. They search for volunteers to offer their faces for around 380 dollars to be printed on the masks.

The recent research explains the fatigue caused by video calls and video conferences. Virtual interactions can be extremely tiring to the brain because of the impossibility of grasping the response from the audience.

A viral video of a man wearing a helmet while visiting real estate sales confirms the concerns of Chinese netizens about the use and commercialization of face recognition technology. Awareness rises, especially after the recent pandemics and launch of the health code system.

A lady whose remains found in one of the temples in Lima reveals her face. She was a high-status woman from Ancient Peru, today got a name “Dama De El Paraíso”. Innovative reconstruction based on skull and bones helped to reconstruct her facial features.

A new campaign illustrated by artist Noma Bar inspiring people during the world’s pandemic. The project presented as a message from Mucinex. The goal is to remind people about safety by saying that being boring and stay home can be heroic.

The artist Tim Tadder creates portraits that are cloaked with hypnotic swirls and thick drips of bright paint. He pours colors over anonymous subjects and photographs them to capture each drop as it runs down. Most recent updates about the project are available on his social media.

Iranian painter Salman Khoshroo creates the emotive portraits using just white impasto on the white canvas. You can see more of the artist’s lively work on Instagram and check out his available pieces on his site.