You, the product! Me, my object.
My glasses How I see/look without them
My glasses = my normal vision. My glasses = beautiful finish of my appearance. My glasses = a big part of me . DISABILITY. ATTACHMENT. IDENTITY?
“Glasses or spectacles are (…) an exemplar of design for disability.” “In the 1930s (…) spectacles were classified as medical appliances and their wearers as patients . (…) glasses were considered to cause social humiliation (…) should not be ‘styled’, but only ‘adequate’.” “These days (…) up to 20 % of some brands of glasses are purchased with clear nonprescription lenses…” “Spectacles have become eyewear (…) you wear glasses, rather than just use them.”
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Popular labels of ‘glasses - wearers’: nerd, hipster, Dexter, granny etc.
Fashion and eyewear design have opened a wide range of choices. You can adjust your needs to your style and make them attractive.
+ confidence + fashion. What labels?
Celebrities = confidence + fashion.
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Imagine these people with no glasses. Will they be the same?
Harry Potter, a wizard. Daniel Radcliffe, a famous young actor.
Clark Kent, a reporter. SUPERMAN, a superman.
Identity: one and unique.
Identity is formed through time and consists of many different aspects, which combined, form a person and their personality.
We are dependent on what other people see: the basic (also daily and at first sight unimportant) proof of identity is recognition.
The facial recognition process is more often accepted as holistic, rather than featural, as proved by Teneka and Farah with several experiments (1993). That means that the face is recognized as a whole, concentrating on main features (nose, eyes, interfacial spaces) in parallel with the shape of the face.
Glasses – crucial for the visual image: they are in a strong contact with the main facial features (frame the eyes, sit on nose). Eyes: ‘mirror of our inner world’, ‘windows to the outer world’. Glasses – frames of my identity and world.
Cheers.
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