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Portland, OR based Shwood Eyewear has created a method to apply a veneer of recycled newspaper to its sunglasses. The company specializes in wooden framed glasses which they craft by hand in-house. Shwood, a self proclaimed “experimental brand,” was looking for a way to restore wood-like properties to old newspaper. They developed a method to laminate 1600 feet of news print together into a 4″ diameter “log.” By cutting the log into 1/8″ slices, it took on the properties of a wood veneer. The glasses are certainly striking, especially the model with the newspaper front (if you look closely you can make out letters from the print). Unfortunately the Canby Select version, the best looking of the bunch, is already sold out; the company only made 50 of them! If you are interested though, there are still two other variants available. Head past the break for an excellent video on how Shwood creates the newspaper glasses: