Hard to believe that this is our fifth day in NYC, this is turning into quite the marathon event. Looking at our schedule we knew that this was going to be a busy day, we had a lot of appointments, and quite a special day – we would only be spending half of it at […]
Category: eyeglasses
New York / Vision East Expo Day 3
The day started bright and clear, but cold. We shouldn’t really complain, though, as we’d escaped the snow storm which had battered Nova Scotia over the last 24 hours so we were fortunate to be in New York. This day was going to be a very special day – TD Tom Davies’s Creative Lab. We […]
Seeing Red?
Last week we took a peek at some fabulous blue eyeglasses that may have made you rethink what colours will work for you. This week it’s reds turn… ic! berlin – Nameless A true vibrant, bold red – ic!berlin ‘Nameless’ combines a powerful colour and shape. Not for the faint of heart this frame is a real head-turner. […]
Got the blues?
One thing I notice a lot of in the dispensary is when patients are trying on frames they always seem to shy away from certain colours. Blue, red, yellow and green are a few of the bright, beautiful colours that wait patiently on the shelf until a brave soul takes the plunge and realizes – Wow […]
Interviews with a designer … David Rose – designer at SALT. Optics
At any of the international exhibitions we attend one of the greatest joys is in the discovery of new companies and those hidden gems which you were not aware of before. SALT. were exactly one of those discoveries, we first met them at New York in April 2013 – Wow! SALT.’s mission really sums up […]
Knowing what you are looking for …
Sometimes people looking for new glasses already have an idea in mind about the type of glasses they would like. It perhaps has come about through what are the current ‘hot styles’ in frames being sold, or it could be that they have seen a celebrity in a photograph wearing a particular frame. There are […]
Choosing your new glasses
Sometimes choosing new glasses can seem like a major task, there are all sorts of “rules” and style guides available to help you. A really good example of one such style guide is available on the Salt. Optics website, http://www.saltoptics.com/fit-guide.php.For many people this is a great way to start looking for new glasses, it gets you […]
Press Release – Slow Food Eyeglasses come to Halifax
Ocean Optometry, Halifax (July 02, 2013) – Eyeglasses, like many other products, can often travel thousands of miles before arriving at the final retailer for sale. A more environmentally responsible alternative has arrived at Ocean Optometry. “When we first met with Drift Eyewear and were introduced to the range, we were blown away by the […]
Do you stock Ray-Ban?
This is a question that we hear in Ocean Optometry a couple of times a week and the simple answer is “No”. Of course, there is a great more detail to the answer than just those two letters and perhaps it would be best to give the complicated answer, rather than just the simple answer. […]
Spin & Stow
One of the things that we loved about the götti range was a clever feature, designed by Sven Götti, called Spin & Stow. This allows for the temples to be reversed 180° and then fit snugly into the natural curve of the frame front. The result is a frame that is bowed, but quite flat and […]