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Heywear Collection

Heywear · Product · 2019

Heywear Collection

Prescription eyewear has a perception problem. It feels medical — something you need, not something you want. The collection had to change that. Glasses as fashion, not as a correction.

The Frames

The design work was about giving people something they'd actually be excited to wear. Not frames that disappear on your face, but frames with enough character to feel like a choice. A range wide enough to fit different people and different attitudes, all held together by the same approachable energy as the brand.

Close-up portrait of a person wearing thin round wire-frame glasses with a gold nose ring

Two metal aviator frames — one sunglasses, one clear — resting on a moss-covered stone

The Photography

How the frames were photographed mattered as much as how they were designed. The direction was deliberate: close, warm, confident. Real faces shot at a scale and intimacy that most eyewear brands avoid. Product shots placed on moss and stone instead of white seamless.

The goal was to make the collection feel alive — something you encounter, not something presented to you behind glass.

Woman in a beige jacket wearing red cat-eye sunglasses, adjusting them with one hand

Woman wearing black cat-eye sunglasses with both hands raised, tortoiseshell chain visible

Tortoiseshell frame lying on moss, temple reading HEYWEAR in white lettering
Temple detail

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