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SILMO Istanbul
The International SILMO Istanbul Optical Fair proved, last year, that it has become an indispensable exhibition of the optical sector in a short time. With its geographical location, Istanbul showed to be an indispensable part of the optical trade with its role as a bridge between Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
This Year, the 6th of the fair strengthened its position sector with confident steps, by growing, and put a signature to many innovations !
Akira Ishiwatari – Portrait of a designer
Imaginative designer, Akira Ishiwatari, and raised in Tokyo, first started working in an optician store age twenty years old. Akira has over 30years’ experience working with glasses. Arguably the most interesting aspect of an optician’s work is actually creating lenses fitting lenses into certain glasses, making contact lenses, preparing special types of lenses such as bifocal or trifocal lenses. While the processing of lenses is technical, it also necessarily involves design.