Spectacle Makers: An interview with Yinka Ilori
Yinka Ilori is a British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist and designer and—now—Spectacle Maker. His frame for London Design Festival draws on his ...
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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.
Spectacle Makers: An interview with Jaimus Tailor
Jaimus Tailor is the founder of Greater Goods, a design and making brand with an ethos of turning ‘nothing into something’. For his spectacle frame...
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An interview with Nicky Goulder, Founding Chief Executive of Create
For Spectacle Makers, Cubitts worked with nine renowned creatives from a broad spectrum of disciplines, to design one-off spectacles bridging art a...
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Spectacle Makers: An interview with David Shrigley
As part of Spectacle Makers for London Design Festival 2024, the artist David Shrigley designed a frame with one big eye, and one small eye. We vis...
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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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Nothing new under the sun
The Inuit people, indigenous to the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, have long faced some of the harshest environmental conditions ...
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Recreating a military frame
The 1970s were a transformative period for the U.S, marked by technological advancements. Among these innovations was the introduction of the S9 mi...
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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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Architectural Incongruities
London’s streets are home to many strange conjunctions of old and new. Every corner turned might lead to fresh juxtaposition. The city folding in u...
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An interview with Michael Challenger
Reflections on a lifetime of creating art from geometry, connecting engines and modernism, music and Carl Jung. From the eighth edition of The Spec...
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Spectacles fit for a pharaoh
A century ago to this day, Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tutenkhamun. When the dust cleared he saw a trove of ‘wonderful things’. A pair of gold...
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REDUX origins
Spectacle making is not sustainable.
The latest in our REDUX initiative has been produced to address the mounting problem of acetate wastage....
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