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Eco Ocean Eyewear Collection

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021

Scanning a square-format photograph featuring three pairs of eyeglass frames arranged diagonally against a woven net backdrop. Beginning at upper left, a slate blue frame rests at an angle, its color suggesting deep twilight waters, cool and contemplative against the skin. This matte-finished frame features rounded rectangular lenses and organic circular temple tips that would feel smooth and slightly cool to touch. The frame's surface has the quality of fine stone, absorbing rather than reflecting light. Moving toward center, a warm taupe frame appears, evoking sun-warmed sand or weathered driftwood, carrying temperatures of coastal afternoons. Its identical silhouette to the first frame creates rhythmic repetition while the earthy warmth provides thermal contrast. Progressing to lower right, a deep charcoal frame anchors the arrangement, its nearly graphite tone suggesting volcanic rock or rich soil, grounding and substantial. All three frames share identical proportions, approximately fifteen centimeters wide, featuring gentle curves where bridge meets lens and smooth transitions to slender temples. Beneath these frames, filling the entire background, stretches a hand-knotted net in turquoise-green tones reminiscent of shallow tropical waters or sea glass. The braided rope creates diamond-shaped openings roughly five centimeters across, each intersection secured with tight knots that catch light along their twisted surfaces. The rope texture would feel rough yet yielding, like well-worn maritime equipment. The background beyond the net presents as soft blue-gray, cool and atmospheric like morning fog. Lighting appears diffused and even, creating no harsh shadows, suggesting overcast conditions or studio softboxes. The overall atmosphere evokes calm contemplation, the stillness of a quiet shoreline, where ocean meets land and discarded materials find new purpose through careful craft.

Eco Ocean frames are made from recycled ocean plastic, because plastic has no place in the ocean. Eco teamed up with the NGO Waste Free Oceans to source old ropes from the maritime industry found in the ocean and on shorelines. The waste material is shredded and molded into pellets which in turn are injection molded into frames. The collection consists of bold yet easy-to-wear frames. They are lightweight and super comfortable with a smooth, matte finish in ocean-inspired shades. Each frame comes in a case made from recycled PET fabric.