Sidecar Glasses Co.
Sidecar is a small business that designs and manufactures unique frames in their Moab, UT workshop. Over the summer, I worked with their two-person design team, Ryan and Danielle.
Sidecar is a small business that designs and manufactures unique frames in their Moab, UT workshop. Over the summer, I worked with their two-person design team, Ryan and Danielle.
I gained hands-on experience working alongside professional designers, assisting with tasks such as prepping and assembling leather for glasses cases and cutting lenses. I was also introduced to their design process, which gave me the opportunity to design my own pair of frames.
Inspired by the oversized rounded square frames popularized by Jackie Kennedy Onassis, this design embraces a silhouette that is silly and fun, yet effortlessly sophisticated. The shape functions equally well as sunglasses or optical frames.
Acetate
Propionate
TR90
Sidecar material
Acitate frames are a great option for a durable and high quality sunglasses.
Here are some of the other ideas I came up with exploring oversized square and rectangular silhouettes.
This was one Idea I was playing with in Rhino, not the final design but, I wanted to see what It might look like on CAD.
New imporved design
To make the glasses more practical I decided to raise the bridge and stems to so they sit lower and are less top heavy. Another thing I learned to think about is the nose structure, which I didn't include on my first CAD model.
This is the CAD model of the frames I designed! At Sidecar they use a special 3D modeling program for their laser cutting machines which is very similar to solidworks.
Finishing:
On the right is the laser cutting machine they use to cut the frames out of a rectangular piece of acetate.
On the left is the machine that cuts and sands down the lenses.
