A frog skull-inspired eyewear
Helsinki, May 28th 2026 — Paloceras introduces Nexoris, a pair of sunglasses inspired by amphibian anatomy. The frame’s oversized upper brow references the broad, flattened structure of a frog’s skull, while articulated temples and protruding nosepads give the piece a charged, almost ready-to-leap character.
Nexoris comes in three colourways — Umbra brown, Venum green and Amphibae pink — each referencing the amphibian world that informed the design. The style was developed in collaboration with eyewear creative and technologist Paris Koutsavelis, who worked on the digital modelling and development of the frame.
“Nexoris started almost more like creature design than eyewear design,” says Alexis Perron-Corriveau, Design Director of Paloceras. “We were looking at frogs, salamanders, joints, small bones, movement — all these strange anatomical details. The result feels almost like something found in nature after a strange machine phase.”
Nexoris is produced from a highly refined, purpose-engineered photopolymer resin, DLP-printed on the Genera G1 system inside the Paloceras MicroFactory in Helsinki before being carefully smoothed and assembled by hand. Originally developed for dental and surgical applications, the resin has been adapted to achieve acetate-like properties – a material long considered the gold standard in luxury eyewear – resulting in frames that are solid yet transparent, with a soft, satin-like surface finish.
The MicroFactory is the brand’s experimental production laboratory, where traditional craftsmanship meets advanced 3D-printing technologies to create eyewear unconstrained by conventional industrial processes. Keeping production entirely in-house minimizes the distance between idea and finished object, allowing for rapid iteration, continuous refinement and an unusual level of formal precision.
“These products simply couldn’t exist if it weren’t for the radical freedom from common manufacturing constraints afforded by 3D printing,” said Erwin Laiho, the Head of MicroFactory at Paloceras. “It is a vehicle that liberates artists and designers to make form-agnostic works exploring previously uncharted geometries and details.”
The photography draws on warning signals found in toxic organisms — the idea that high visibility can function as a form of protection rather than exposure. Shot in Nordic fog, water and low light, the images position the wearer less as a visitor to nature and more as something that has emerged from it. Bright colour, reflective surfaces and an atmosphere of unnatural stillness make the sunglasses feel almost like a form of biological adaptation.
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