How to Design Your Own Eyeglasses

Eyewear is common in our lives. It's not just myopic glasses but they are increasingly becoming a fashion item for people. With high requency of occurrence, more and more people manage to design their own eyewear. Not only for those trying to design themselves but also for those only wanting to buy eyewear, knowing the vital knowledge is helpful. How much do you know about glasses? Do you know how these light glasses are designed?

With those questions, this article focuses on four ways to introduce the art of designing --- Inspiration, design, technical inspection and sample display. Inspiration is the most important step. You need to decide everything about eyewear. As for designing part, it is a part to make your idea come into live. Technical is necessary because it makes sure that your product could be released into market. The last step is to check whether you are satisfied with products. Each step is important and more detailed information is followed below. Let's have a check.

Step 1. Inspiration

This part is the foundation that propels us to take the next step. Inspiration is the guide of design, which pushes the start of design. Inspiration can come from anywhere and everywhere. It can come from the ideas in the designer's own mind, or from the needs of the consumers. What designers should do is to determine the type of design as well as the fashion style. Someone may ask, what if I totally don't have any ideas? Don't worry, I bet from three aspects, you will form your own construction of eyewear.

Set a Theme --- Types of Eyeglasses

What's your purpose to design a pair of glasses? Think about this question, then you get the answers. Most of what we usually learn about is myopic glasses. In fact, there are several types of glasses.Different types of glasses have different efficacy and different design materials. Types of eyeglasses are divided into prescription eyewear, digital protection eyewear, fashion eyewear and so on.

• Prescription glasses are what we usually call myopic glasses, presbyopic glasses, etc.
• Digital protective eyewear is available to minimize exposure to blue light emitted by various devices such as laptops, TVs, and cell phones.
• Fashion eyewear and sunglasses decorate and complete the fashionable look.

So you can pick one or you have other opinions on it.

Must Know before Designing --- Eyeglass Structure

First, you need to know the whole structure of eyeglasses. The complete eyeglass frame consists of nine parts. Overall, it was divided into two parts--- lenses and frames. Frames can be divided in detail with eight parts. They are screws, temples, bridge, end pieces, hinges, rims, nose pads, pad arms. Different parts have their own function. I'd like to introduce them to help with your opinion of design.

• Lenses: They are crafted to help you see clearly. The material is determined by what kind of glasses you decide to design.
• Frames: It is everything that surrounds the lenses. You can design them with your own idea. For example, there are four types of hinges--- barrel hinges, spring hinges, 180° hinges and no hinges. Moreover, there are also four kinds of bridge--- adjustable nose pads, saddle bridge, keyhole bridge and comfort fit. How to choose only depends on youself. As for rim, it provides form and character to your eyewear, which holds the frame in place. It has various colors and sizes to consider.

Another Point Should be Known --- Eyeglass Frame Materials

The choice of eyeglass frame material is determined by color, wear resistance, strength, weight, performance, flexibility and price.The main materials for eyeglass frames are metal and plastic.

• Metals: Monel, titanium, etc. They can ensure stability and structure in the product. Monel is the most common metal, while titanium is a high quality option. Others like choosing stainless steel too.
• Plastic: It is lightweight, water resistant, hypoallergenic and resistant to cold or heat temperatures. Standard plastic is very common in our lives while there are also acetate and TR90.

Besides metals and plastic, you also have other choices to choose from, such as wood, bamboo, etc.

Step 2. Design

This process includes sketching and reviewing. The design process is to materialize our ideas, not only to design the appearance but also to indicate the frame material and size description. Just try to describe it with your pen, then continuously improve it.

After sketching, it comes to reviewing. Sometimes it is overlooked, but veryimportant. Maybe in the process of this part, inspiration burst out. Evaluation is a big part of reviewing. The designer needs to continuously refine the design and then give it to an experienced engineer to judge the feasibility.

Steps 3. Technical Inspection

Once the prototypes are completed, each one must undergo rigorous technical testing. Our technical experts check the individual frame components for material strength, stability, density, etc. This step is to ensure the quality of our products. Try to be careful.

Steps 4. Sample Display

After the hard work of design as well as quality testing, the whole team was waiting for samples. After seeing the finished product, the designers can start placing orders if they are satisfied, or make suggestions for improvement if they are not. Meanwhile, the completion of the sample does not mean that it is ready for market immediately. These samples are tested according to CE guidelines before being launched on the market.

Conclusion

This article briefly describes the basics we need to know when trying to design glasses. It introduces different types of eyewear, nine main parts of eyeglasses and materials usually used when producing them, which develop initial knowledge of eyeglasses. They are all conculuded in inspiration because with the knowledge, you can have your own views on designing. The next design part is an important part, making our ideas concrete.

Learning about this information is helpful when deciding to choose glasses or managing to design one. With your own purpose and preference for eyewear, do you have an idea about what kind of to choose? If you are interested, just leave comments or send us an email [email protected] for further discussion.