Bellinger glasses in cotton candy colours

It's a bold eyewear house that breaks the mould by baking its own acetate, but the designers at Bellinger do just that.

Bellinger acetate creates a beautiful play of colors with unique patterns. A dough of cotton, acetone and alcohol is mixed, filtered, kneaded, heated and finally pushed into large blocks. And that's when the creative work begins resulting in some amazing effects. It's a bit like old-fashioned candy say the Danish company as demonstrated by these great images which I picked up at the recent 100% Optical show in London.

P3 panto glasses by Pierre Cariven

Handmade in the Jura region of France, this a new collection from Pierre Cariven called P3.
Made from NXP nylon, note that there is no steel reinforcement in the temples.

Wooden frames get colourful, but only on FEB31st

FEB31st is a new brand from Italy which is providing a new take on wooden frames by creating a collection in natural wooden finishes but in bright colours inside and/or outside.

Designer Valerio Cometti presented the new collection earlier this month in Paris. FEB21st says its frames weigh only 21 grams, they have a reinforced nosepads and a clever method for getting the lenses in.

From the top: Crux (x3), Ara and Auriga. The FEB31st collection includes nine models: four for men, three for women and two unisex; four of these frames are available also for sunglasses. Below, three more Crux and Cygnus Sun.

Beam me up Kirk: colourful acrylic glasses for 2012

Wow! Look at the colour on these fantastic glasses from Kirk Originals. The new Beam and Sunbeam collections for 2012 are being launched at Silmo, the big eyewear show in Paris next week.

These specs look amazing; but technically they're brilliant too. They're made of acrylic. Kirk Originals has been working on these for more than a decade and while the UK designer has been using acrylic for a while now in the temples, this is the first time it's made the front of this material too.

Note the lack of any metal wire in the temple and the fantastic polish on the acrylic. Looking forward to trying a few of these on next week!

RRP: €420

Maek Eyewear makes it original – including collaboration with Jon Burgerman

It's great to see some originality emanating from little ole England. And Nottingham-based Maek Eyewear has a tonne of it, as is demoed herewith. The top frame is a collaboration with renowned street artist Jon Burgerman featuring his doodles on the temples and, a really impressive and bright, raw finish.

Next is a frame designed for Maek Eyewear with urban fashion brand Regenerate. And below that is Letloose and Another Level, another two sunnies from Maek that show that it truly lives up to its slogan: Maek It Original.

Lotho Clark, Lola and Camille sunglasses

Remember Lotho? Of course you do - who could forget  Yuwano?

Here we have a modern take on a classic look, Clark, left.

Next the beautifully coloured and strikingly shaped Lola.

Finally Lotho Eyewear's Camille demonstrates, just like the last time we featured them, a true design edge...

Parasite - fittingly different eyewear for 2011

Think these are a bit different? Then get your peepers around this lot from what is certainly France's and probably the world's most original glasses designers, Parasite Eyewear.

Note the unusual split temple design that travels not behind the ears, but to just before the ear and then up high on the temple. It looks unusual, but feels unusually comfortable should you ever try a pair. And unlike most ordinary eyewear these glasses don't slip off once you bend down to tie your shoelace.

What's more Parasite has some pretty sharp, some-might-say-1980s (although 2010s is most accurate) innovative designs.

The first of this next bunch, Varana, is brilliantly inspired by Mexican wrestling - can they're be a more modern take on the cat's eye?

Ørgreen and Arne Jacobsen special edition Swan chairs and frames

At last month's London Design Festival, Danish eyewear designers Ørgreen Optics joined forces with furniture specialists the Republic of Fritz Hansen to produce a series of Arne Jacobsen Swan chairs featuring the same Copenhagen skyline design as a special edition of eyewear by Ørgreen.

The chairs and eyewear collaboration, pictured here at the EDC London showroom, referred to as the Skyline Edition, marks a new addition to a series of creative projects in the Ørgreen "Playground".

Kirk Originals glasses walk on water - the 2010 Sculpture collection

...Well perhaps walk is an exagerration, but these glasses from Kirk Originals' Sculpture range, to be released in Milan in two weeks, are pretty miraculous. This one is Otis, in grey and scarlet but there are six new shapes in nine new colourways. The fronts are acetate while the temples, which appear to be textured yet smooth, are acrylic. Take yourself off to Kirk Originals' site (always fun) to find out more.