Wrote about Maskins already:
iSpazio.net: “give an extra touch of class to our iPhones with the adhesive skins of Maskins, an Italian company dedicated to skins for hi-tech products”…“The designs and the quality of the prints are a stand-out feature of this product.”
Meletta: “I’ve tried various skins, and I can safely say that this was one of the absolute best both in terms of quality (it uses 3M materials) and in terms of ease of application.”
Applefive: “The covers are made with special care, as we found testing them in the past. They cover your device perfectly so as to avoid accidental scratches and knocks.”
iPhoneItalia.com:“I can say that these are truly excellent skins for any Apple product”…“a really great product at a very low price.”
Gizmondo: “The adhesive skins, completely made in Italy and created with 3M materials, can be re-applied again and again since they don’t stick or ruin devices’ surfaces by leaving nasty residues.”
Pensare Mac: “I have to say that putting on one of these skins substantially changes the look of the iPad, making it original, out of the ordinary, as well as guaranteeing protection against scratches, especially on the back.”
Ogni Riccio un Pasticcio: “Maskins is a brand offering something innovative: adhesive skins that let you customize your device so as to make it truly unique.”
Trend and The City: “to let customization lovers make their objects unique there comes Maskins, producing skins made with hi-tech, high-quality materials.”
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The History of Maskins
Here we are: Maskins, or Alessio and Luca Mavilia, two brothers with a passion for beautiful and useful objects and the desire to continually create, discover and improve.
One fine day in 2010 we asked ourselves why millions of people who talk on the phone or surf on smartphones or tablets on streets all over the world shouldn’t be able to express their personality also through the look of these means of communication. The mobile phone, the iPhone and the iPad by now are products that accompany us in our every act: they’re part of us. And we’re unique.
So Maskins was born, our innovative company that aims to make the object with which we stay in touch with the world unique and recognizable. Not only that: Maskins offers us the chance to change continually, because changeable is what our mood is.
Maskins wants to bring out the creativity in all of us through exclusive and customized products. It provides us with our second skin.
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How We Do It
At Maskins we make adhesive PVC skins that render objects in common use like phones, electronic devices or interior design elements unique, through a vast range of products that bring out the artistic taste, in continuous evolution, of our customers.
Our skins are customized and perfectly moulded to wholly cover the surfaces of your phone, laptop, notebook computer, iPod, iPhone, Nintendo Wii, Xbox, Sony Playstation, PSP, DS Lite or interior design object.
They’re created using high-quality materials, extremely resistent and at the same time so versatile as to be able to adapt to the shape of any device. At Maskins we pay the utmost attention to the choice of materials, using the products of the sector leader 3M, so it’s easy to reposition the skin time and time again and, once removed with a simple movement, the skin will leave no residue.
What’s more, thanks to high technological-content materials, the skin protects the phone from scratches and splashes without becoming detached or tearing over time.
The structure of the adhesive, equipped with particular grooves, prevents bubbles forming, aiding the perfect adhesion to the surface to be covered.
We collaborate with artists and graphic designers who are carefully selected for their creativity and the artistic message conveyed, and we nurture their talents by giving them the broadest freedom of expression to create products that are varied and always different.
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The Maskins Artists
Right now we have over 150 different designs created by carefully selected international artists, paid in royalties, to cover the widest possible range of tastes. At the centre of its business, together with the customer, the company puts the creative talents that populate the web.
We’re always spending time and effort in the search for young, talented artists from around the world to involve in the project. One of the reasons why we’re here today on Indiegogo is just this desire to increase the artistic quality of Maskins.
The achievement of the campaign’s goals will also have a bearing on the development of our scouting system and on the valorization of our collaborators: with greater sales we’ll have the chance to give higher fees to all the Maskins artists, and of course the visibility of their works will be expanded.
Carles Marsal | CARLESMARSAL.COM: "Very happy to sell my art in Maskins, keep the hard work!"
An Ecological Production
Ecology and respect for the environment is fundamental for us at Maskins.
We’ve always been environmentally aware and we only use material with low enviromental impact and ecocompatible inks with no emission of harmful volatile substances. The print is protected by a transparent film that, as well as guaranteeing the gloss and resistance of our skins, completely isolates the inks from human contact.![Environment]()
Against Any Difficulty
Building up a technology-based company from nothing in Italy, one in step with the latest innovations and aimed at continuous improvement, hasn’t been easy. The problems of Italian bureaucracy are well-known worldwide, as is the difficulty of finding funding and expertise in a country where meritocracy has never been a criterion of selection. To the structural deficiency of the Italian situation, however, has been added the worst economic crisis to hit Italy and Europe since the post-war period, a crisis whose end is not yet on the horizon. In following our dream we’ve struggled hard with the structural difficulties and with those added by the global crisis, and responded to the problems of the sector by putting ourselves on the line, believing still more in our ideas and continually improving the concept of customization.
We’ve diversified the product, improved the selection criteria and set our sights on quality. In fact today Maskins lets the customer personalize skins with any photo or image taken from the web, as well as with the vast selection of images in our artists’ gallery.
Thanks to the user-friendly tool “to.be.yours”, accessible from our home page, users can create their own skin by themselves from home in a few simple and clear steps. With the achievement of the third goal, Maskins wants to create its own official App so that users can make themselves their own skin in an instant, in any part of the world where they might find themselves. Imagine how great it would be to be able to immortalize and make your own skin during a honeymoon, a concert, an adventure holiday, a picturesque walk or an exciting moment: we at Maskins are able to make your dream come true.
We want the Maskins brand, strenthened by its innovations, to reach everywhere soon. Our first goal, then, consists of broadening our visibility on the web.
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Let’s Help Our Neighbour with Amnesty International
We at Maskins don’t forget those who have been left behind, aided by our experience of hard work in the Italian commercial desert. We want profit-making activity to go hand in hand with solidarity, and we intend to support a good cause for the improvement of society.
For this reason, as part of the process of gathering funds, when we reach the second goal that we’ve set ourselves we’ll take part in a fundraising project, giving 5% of the funds we’ve raised to Amnesty International, the international human rights organization. We believe it’s right that each of us should do something to make our world a better place, and we’d like those who take part in the crowdfunding for Maskins to be able to help not just the company but the whole world.
So each of your donations will bring benefits not only for yourselves (see Prizes for Donators) but also for other people. This is the right spirit.
Don’t stop once the goal has been reached: the more you donate the more good will be done! LET’S HELP AMNESTY!
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Goals:
$ 25,000 - Brings Maskins in the World + start of charity donations
Maskins is a young startup company that in nearly two years of activity has achieved great success at national level. Yet for a company that does its business online, to appear on the international market is costly, above all with the handicap of living in a country little disposed to support its own young companies.
We want to export our mission globally, however, to be able to satisfy the public’s desire to personalize the world around us.
The funds raised in this first phase will serve to give visibilty to the website www.maskins.com at an international level so that it can be easily seen, searched and found by users of every nationality, and to give the right visibility to our artists.
IMPORTANT: From this moment on, in addition, we will start to donate 5% of the money raised to charity for a good cause, which will be testified to through successive updates of the money transferred.
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$ 60,000 - Maskins Hard Cases and other products
We at Maskins would like to implement the production of hard cases so as to satisfy the needs of users who favour the total protection of their smartphone or tablet, guaranteeing the best quality for the products and artistic variety for the designs as well as personalization by the customers.
In this goal the funds gathered will be used to implement the website’s software for customization by users with their own images and/or photos, and also to obtain the equipment necessary to produce hard cases ensuring the same standard of quality that Maskins is proud of in its skins, and for the covers that will then be printed.
$ 85,000 - Maskins App
This is the Maskins App designed to provide users with the chance to create skins, cases, canvases or any other Maskins product directly from their device (supporting iOs or Android) to be able to immortalize their most intense and special moments. The App will be completely free to all Maskins customers.
Think how great it would be to be able to create your own customized skin with a few easy steps in any place you find yourself. A beautiful sunset, a sun-drenched beach, a breath-taking panorama or simply your favourite corner of the world: all you need to do is take a photo, choose the device for your skin and it’s taken care of. In this goal the funds gathered will be used for the conceptual study and the making of the App and any updates both for Apple and for Android so that any user will be able to use it.
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