Designed Eyes is now located at Shop 16, 967 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud. This is an exciting new venture for us as it heralds a new beginning for our business. We now have optometry (eye testing) services available as well as a much larger range of frames as well as the usual spectacle making services as we have always had. In a sea of large corporate optical companies we are a small fish in a large sea. The large corporates have lost touch with the community and the core of our business which is great service, and professional advice. We’re proudly old fashioned in that way! For the best in optical services please come in and take advantage of what we can do for you!

Designed Eyes, Rosebud

There are many aspects to vision correction that are completely missed by the general public, and I’ll use a real example to illustrate. I met an old friend at a re-union the other day who proudly showed me his $9 glasses that he was wearing for distance vision. Sure enough they were single vision glasses, which means that at the age of 46 as he is, those glasses could not possibly be functioning well for him. At a glance the glasses appeared to be about +1.00 or +1.50. If his distance vision is good and doesn’t require correction, at age 46 that +1.00 or +1.50 might be good for near use, but near use only. If he can see well at distance with them which appeared to me to be what he was using them for, then there’s no way they could be good for near. The other option is that he can use them at near at a pinch but they will be blurring his vision at distance. So no matter what,  there is no way he can be attaining optimal vision at all working distances. At 46 this is now impossible given the power of the lenses that he seemed to be happily wearing!  He seemed to scoff at the concept of paying $300 for custom made prescription lenses when he can buy them for $9 at the supermarket! If he wears the $300 dollar ones for two years that’s 50 cents per day for perfect clear vision. Life is too short to for this sort of tight fisted nonsense! And given what his distance vision might be with those self prescibed spectacles, his life or someone elses may well end up shorter than expected!

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 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.