Designed Eyes

We put a lot of effort into producing the highest quality spectacles available. We spend more time and put in more effort than anyone to achieve prescription lenses that are on axis, on centre and perfectly fitted than any spectacle maker around. How do we know? Well, we see what the others produce and I am constantly amazed by the low standard of what is being produced these days. If you, like us have an appreciation of real quality please call us. We are very proud of what we make. That’s where we derive our job satisfaction and quite frankly we can’t do it any other way. For us, quality is a way of life!

Younger Optics have finally released their NuPolar grey and brown polarised lenses in Trilogy material. This means that we can now produce rimless polarised sunglasses with lenses that are guaranteed for life not to crack , split or break. It really does open up a world of possibilies with regard to rimless sunwear.  Rest assured we at Designed Eyes will be working hard to create some stunning new rimless sunglass styles for the coming summer utilizing these incredible lenses. Watch out for updates here.

Who knows what an optician is? Are they the same an optometrist? The situation in Australia is very complex, but for primarily political reasons it has been enshrined in legislation that only an optometrist shall be able to call themselves an optician! How’s that? This is akin to architects telling buiders that they can’t call themselves builders, only architects can be called builders. Ridiculous isn’t it? Well that’s the situation that Australian opticians face every day. We are the builders of the optical industry; we build a product to prescription and sell it. We have to use terms like optical dispenser or dispensing optician to describe ourselves but those terms are faceless ones.  They are not understood by the general public and thus make it very difficult to market ourselves as we should be able to market ourselves.

In the U.S. and Canada it is very clear in the public’s view as what an optician is. They make your glasses. optometrists prescribe. It’s as simple as that. I long for this type of simplicity in Australia or am I dreaming? Isn’t it time in this country that opticians were allowed to shake off the shackles of a repressive legislation to be allowed to call ouselves what we really are?

We hope that you’ll enjoy your time here! We are a small spectacle maker in Rosebud Victoria  Australia who are dedicated to being the very best that we can be. We love making the best glasses that can possibly be made. We love quality, no matter what the product is and dislike cheap poorly made mass produced products made in some sweatshop.

We make each and every pair of glasses with the care and devotion that the discerning purchaser would expect. Every pair gets our full devotion. We don’t make much but what we do we do really well. To us, spectacle making is a craft and not an industry. We treat it as an art and we love what we produce.

Here at Designed Eyes we love glasses. Besides the practical consideration that they are fundamentally a medical appliance, they can also be works of art! They should look great and feel really good on. We make artwork for your face. In particular we take great care to ensure that your glasses will fit your face properly. We are experts in the fitting and adjustment of your glasses and can customize many aspects of your lenses or frame to ensure that they are just right for you!