EssilorLuxottica Winner at the Red Dot Design Award 2022

Monday, April 4 2022 | 13 h 53 min | Awards, News, Press Release

Ray-Ban Stories and SPHERE® by Starck Biotech Paris – both EssilorLuxottica brands – have been awarded in the product design category for the 2022 edition of the Red Dot Design Award.

Ray-Ban Stories

Ray-Ban Stories won the highest award in the competition, the Red Dot: Best of the Best. This prize is reserved for the best products in a category, the ones which stand out for groundbreaking design.

Result of the collaboration between Ray-Ban and Meta, Ray-Ban Stories are the first generation of smart glasses. They include a dual integrated 5MP camera to take photo and video; discreet open-ear speakers to listen, and a three-microphone audio array to deliver rich voice and sound transmission for calls and videos.

SPHERE® by Starck Biotech Paris

SPHERE® by Starck Biotech Paris received the Red Dot award for outstanding design quality. The Sphere hinge is designed on the idea of getting inspiration from Nature’s infinite intelligence and elegance in order to create high technologies.

The SPHERE® hinge is a revolutionary articulation, a minimalistic way to imagine eyewear thanks to its simplified structure, designed as a sphere. Made without screws or welding, SPHERE® technology offers unparalleled freedom of movement and unique lightness, with each frame weighting less than just 15 grams.

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