Bentel Brothers design red glasses as "squiggle for your face"
New York-based designer Nikolas Bentel and his brother Lukas took cues from Instagram face filters when creating these undulated red glasses.
The Squiggle Glasses are shaped like a thin wavy line, partially obstructing the wearer's view rather than improving their vision.
The Bentel Brothers ? comprising Nik and his artist brother Lukas ? described the spectacles as "nothing but an aesthetic squiggle for your face".
"The Squiggle Glasses are purposefully non-functional," they said in a project description. "We wanted to play with the idea of a purely aesthetic pair of eyewear, which were not useful to see out of but only useful in order to pull off a graphic look."
The siblings typically work on separate projects ? Nik is a resident of the New Museum's design incubator, while his brother Lukas runs creative studio Hello Velocity. They chose to collaborate on the product in response to the fashion for tiny eyewear, which has grown in recent years.
To develop this concept, they took cues from the filters that Instagram creates for users to playfully cover faces when posting stories. Like with the glasses, the temporary overlays offer bold and statement looks.
"We took a great deal of inspiration from augmented-reality Instagram filters," said the brothers. "But instead of having a fleeting graphic obtained through integral filters, we wanted to create something more permanent."
"We would like to see the Squiggle Gl...
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