A blind date with Bespoke+
The first of two bespoke frames for mystery customers, designed purely in response to their character.
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.
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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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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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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An ode to the standard deviation
It is a truth as plain to seeas the chemistry between lovers,that in general we've mostlygot the same bits as each other.
Facially, I mean - the s...
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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.
Cubitts for Soho Music Month
A series of one-off frames to celebrate Soho Music Month, made in Cubitts’ workshop. The musicians were selected for their incredible (and of...
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Elton John: A tribute
As Elton John once said, ‘what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself’. We couldn’t agree more. In tribute to the man himself, two frames inspi...
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A triptych for summer
Summer 2022 marked a century since the Semana de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Week) in São Paulo, the official introduction of Modernism into Brazil. T...
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From Paris to Leeds
The Paris arcades came into being partway through the 19th century, following a boom in the textile trade and technological innovations in construc...
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The Cubitts Podcast Episode 5: Claire Goldsmith
In the final episode of this series, Tom speaks to fellow member of the spectacle enthusiast community, Claire Goldsmith, director of Oliver Goldsm...
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The Cubitts Podcast Episode 4: Tim Little
In the latest episode of the Cubitts Podcast, Tom speaks to Tim Little, managing director of heritage shoemakers Grenson.Leaving a successful caree...
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The Cubitts Podcast Episode 3: Lally MacBeth
The third episode of the Cubitts podcast introduces a different sort of Emotional Utilitarian.
Lally MacBeth is the co-founder of Stone Club, a col...
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