Eyewear brand Cubitts has collaborated with nine artists to create unusual spectacles including a model with different-sized lenses by David Shrigley, which will be exhibited during London Design Festival.
As well as the nine glasses, many of the artists and designers created and donated unique objects for the project, which will be auctioned off together with the one-off glasses to benefit UK creative arts charity Create.
Above: set designer Shona Heath's glasses resemble a bow. Top image: artist Wilfrid Wood created hand-shaped glasses
The artists and designers taking part ? Shrigley, Shona Heath, Laxmi Hussain, Yinka Ilori, Jaimus Tailor, Erica Toogood, Faye Toogood, Daniel Weil and Wilfrid Wood ? received an open brief from Cubitts.
"We kept the brief as open as possible, asking each contributor to design a pair of humble spectacles with full creative freedom," Cubitts founder Tom Broughton told Dezeen. "The only requirements were that the glasses had to be wearable and makeable." Asymmetrical lenses decorate David Shrigley's glasses
Among the designs are Shrigley's glasses, which feature asymmetrical lenses.
"I came up with this design by observing spectacles and noting that each lens is the same size," said Shrigley, who also created an original artwork for the auction. "I thought maybe it would be interesting to make them different sizes, which is what I've done."
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