A history of the navigator
You’d be forgiven for thinking that ‘the aviator’ (spectacles and sunglasses featuring sweeping teardrop lenses and a double bridge) was the defini...
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Journal
Peripheral vision happens away from the centre of your gaze. Outside the ‘point of fixation’ as optometrists would have it. The fuzzy edges.
Discover how far these fuzzy edges stretch in The Spectacle. Interviews with curious folk, design and architecture that inspires and bespoke spectacle design.
Talking bottoms with Wilfrid Wood
For as long as humans have been making art, they've been making it of bottoms. Show me a gallery, and I'll show you a patron peering over the top o...
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New York in the frame
Seven one-off spectacle frames designed with an admiration for New York’s places and faces. From the Mudd Club to Studio 54, the Flatiron to the...
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Cubitts' first garden tool
We've collaborated with Niwaki, makers of fine Japanese tools, to produce a spectacle frame designed to withstand the rigours of the garden. To cel...
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London and a history of spectacle making
London is a city steeped in the history of spectacle design. From the earliest pair of spectacles ever discovered – the 15th century ‘Trig Lane’ bo...
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A very Cubitts cake
At Cubitts, we hold ourselves to lofty principles of design simplicity. But who doesn’t break the rules on their birthday?
A decade of spectacle obsession
A decade ago, we started with a very loose idea of building a spectacles company for people who want to wear spectacles. Ten years in, my beard is ...
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An interview with Kelly Anna
Kelly Anna has created her vital energetic artworks for trainers, football pitches, stickers, and now a new Cubitts cleaning cloth. We sat down wit...
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Surrealism, objects, and spectacles
Spectacles are not new to surrealism. Marcel Mariën’s The Untraceable is a pair of spectacles with a single lens (should that be: a spectacle?). It...
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An interview with David Usborne
Cubitts' first exhibition, The Emotional Utilitarian, is composed of objects collected by David Usborne, a magpie for the beautifully functional. W...
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A blind date with Bespoke+
The first of two bespoke frames for mystery customers, designed purely in response to their character.
Cubitts x Edinburgh College of Art
The jewellery students at Edinburgh College of Art have taken on that most noble art of spectacle design, with a brief to create a frame inspired b...
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The optical industry and sizing: An interview with Tom Broughton
Spectacles are everywhere. Over 65% of people in the UK wear them. There’s thousands of manufacturers, making them easy to purchase, and simple to ...
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Our data discoveries
When you measure thousands of faces and noses and eyes, crest-heights and temple-lengths, bridges and brows ... you get to be stinkingly statistic ...
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The Visionary Streak: Blindness and Literary History
Since the Ancient Greeks, poor eyesight has corresponded with visionary capability. The archetypal blind seer shows up again and again in mythology...
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Pizza frames: Frames for the upside down
A pair of sensory deprivation sunglasses inspired by Stranger Things, complete with a flip up pizza box lid and satisfyingly retro temples.