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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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 Laxmi Hussain
Laxmi Hussain is an artist from London, and one of nine Spectacle Makers for London Design Festival. Her spectacles transform her free flowing figu...
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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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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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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.
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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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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