A hit list of how technology is impacting eyewear from designing to dispensing

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Alain Mikli says he starts designs with paper and pencil. From that a prototype is hand made. “We don’t want to work by computer,” he notes. “The work by hand is incredible. It brings to each frame something unique, something different.”But even the French frame master looks to technology for developments such as the biolink, a microarticulation hinge used in Stark eyewear that is based on the human shoulder.Technology is impacting not only the motion of eyewear, but its aesthetics as well. Where frames in the past were flat surfaced or relied upon inserted stones and details for texture, production advances for metals and plastics are resulting in more three-dimensional eyewear.“New evolutions in hinge designs are allowing them to be part of the overall frame design. The 3D effect of the hinge we use on the Evatik collection enables it to be a visual focal point,” says Beverly Suliteanu, vice president of product development of WestGroupe.