It may seems strange for any business to say that, but we sincerely mean it … in certain circumstances. In fact, by this stage you’ve maybe already decided that we’re not for you – that’s fine, move along! This is something which is quite core to everything we do here at Ocean Optometry and has […]
Category: eyewear
New frame range arrives @ Ocean Optometry
Kirk & Kirk – Vivarium This may not come as a surprise to you, but we really do love our eyewear ranges here at Ocean! We travel to the best international exhibits to meet with the finest creators of eyewear in the world. At that point we then individually select the frames to bring back […]
What’s scary about choosing eyewear?
We have many wonderful interactions with people coming in to Ocean Optometry to look for eyewear, but in the eighteen months since we have opened we have come to realise that perhaps we do things a little differently! I’m not sure if it’s right or wrong; better or worse … it’s just how we do […]
New York / Vision East Expo Day 5
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 […]
New York / Vision East Expo Day 4
With our heads full of exciting ideas from yesterday’s day long workshop and evening festivities, we got up early to prepare for our full first day at the Javits Center. We already had a series of appointments set up for the day, with them carefully spaced out to ensure that we had time for browsing […]
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 […]
Silmo 2013 – Part 2
We were now getting in to the swing of things and gearing up for a busy show. Taking our time over the first day to explore the halls, find the locations for our appointments already scheduled and start to find out any new and exciting suppliers was time well spent. We had business to do, […]
Fall into Paris!
September has been a real roller coaster month for us! I guess in many ways September is a real transitional month. You know that summer is coming to an end, you start to get in to the various tasks getting ready for winter. The city is buzzing with the sudden arrival of thousands of students, […]
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 […]
