After some successful collections Ray-ban has decided to create Rare prints, a new collection with a lot of strange and super colored patterns. For the launch of the collection they decided to cooperate with some of the most important advertisement studios all over the world asking them to base their work on the glasses patterns..
The result is a collection of posters coded and signed by the designer and graphics.
That poster has been made by Aesthetic Apparatus, an american studion placed at the moment in Minnesota and specialized in rock concert posters. Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski are the creators of the studio and the keys of its success, having their works published in many important design and art magazines and in “The Art of the modern Rock” the bible of the poster-art all over the world. Ray-ban asked them to work on the subway map patterns for sunglasses having that beautiful result, a mixture between art, advertisement and graphic design.
Well here’s another way of using and making maps, of course not in their original and classical function but as a pattern for sunglasses..
Mapping Milan 