EYE WEAR GLASSES

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Kirk Originals launches latest website - always worth a look!!

Kirk Originals has always done good websites and its latest redesign lives up to expectations...

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Barton Perreira 2010 eyeglasses ad campaign featuring Giovanni Ribisi

Avatar star Giovanni Ribisi stars in this 2010 campaign for the brilliant Barton Perreira optical collection. There's some great pieces including this beautiful, brown acetate...

And the music in the video? Wild Beasts, from perhaps my favourite album of 2009: Two Dancers

Friday, 8 January 2010

Colab Eyewear's Waybetters - entering the frame name hall of fame

Waybetters from Colab. Great picture and a great, knowing name for a frame. Each Colab frame is limited to a run of 1,000 so if these are way better, they're probably sold out by now.

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Inspirational corners from Brazil - anyone know who makes these?

Yvan Rodic takes what must be hundreds of pictures a day for his Facehunter blog and none too surprisingly a few of the hunted faces wear glasses of some kind or other.

I've never seen anything like these and would love to know who they're by (and how they fold).

All ideas welcome...

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

LA Eyeworks Hicks glasses - tortoiseshell and black

LA Eyeworks Hicks frame on me. Photo: Rob Moss

I said a while back that I'd post a picture of me in my LA Eyeworks frame Hicks. Well here it is, taken on one of those cold, bright winter mornings.

It has black temples and a tortoiseshell-coloured acetate frame...

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Side protection sunglasses in Antarctica... safety first!

Unidentified sunglasses / safety glasses in Antarctica. Photo: JK Keller

Eye Wear Glasses is a global blog. It is mainly written in London but we have photographic contributions from all over. None however have been as far-flung as this one. Here's JK Keller in Antarctica, impressing the penguins in these smokey prescription shades. I love the two shades of grey and the double bridge.

JK chose these sunglasses from the safety frame range in a small-town optical store and had to beg them to put the prescription sunlenses in them. If you look carefully (click picture to enlarge) you can make out the side protection.

"I lost the glasses a few months later," says JK "Sad, very sad." I could not agree more.

All this was a decade ago so JK was certainly well ahead of his time. EWG applauds you!

Fancy sunglasses with side lenses?

Try Retro Super Future's Sideviews...

See more of JK's Antarctica pictures here. Or visit his cool art/design website. Or click one, click the back button and click the other.