Red Dot Design Award 2025

The Red Dot Design Award stands as one of the most sought-after distinctions in product design – and in 2025, Silhouette once again proves its design leadership. This year, three extraordinary creations have earned the coveted Red Dot: the groundbreaking Clear Sky collection and two innovations from Atelier Next, Silhouette’s luxury line. Since 1955, the Red Dot seal has been awarded to designs that push boundaries in creativity, craftsmanship, and innovation. Each of these award-winning pieces impressed the international jury with their vision, sustainability, and refined aesthetics – now joining the ranks of the world’s best in design.

Bio-Circular Material: The Clear Sky Collection
At the heart of Silhouette’s Clear Sky Collection lies a true design breakthrough: SPX® Green+.
This bio-circular material, honored with the Red Dot Design Award 2025, is crafted from organic waste sourced from agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture industries. Produced using 100% renewable energy, SPX® Green+ reduces carbon emissions by up to 50% compared to conventional fossil-based materials. From the leader in optical innovation, this groundbreaking design family embodies the unstoppable progress of a society moving toward greener technologies.

Atelier Next: Crafting the Future of Luxury Eyewear
The Red Dot jury also recognized the pioneering spirit of Atelier Next, Silhouette’s exclusive design lab where advanced materials meet visionary aesthetics. Two distinct sun styles stood out for their refined craftsmanship, innovation, and future-forward use of sustainable materials.

Vegan Leather: Raffinement des Matières Solaire L400 - Soft by Nature, Strong by Design
This new sun style combines sleek lines with precision and material innovation. The super lightweight rimless frame comes with vegan leather inlays based on agricultural side products. This material choice delivers exquisite characteristics in optics and durability and is produced CO2 neutral. The titanium frames offer a minimalistic screwless hinge with full adjustability. The 90° degree folded top bar reveals the beauty of the leather inlays at the second look and underlines the finesse and understatement of this design – clean and minimalistic. By adding colored grooves at the lenses, the rimless look turns into a delicate fullrim look and highlights the aviator shape.

Splendeur Exclusive Solaire L900— Engineered Elegance in 3D-Printed Titanium
This exquisite sun frame brings together craftsmanship with newest 3D titanium printing technology. The matt titanium rings stand in contrast to the 23kt gold plated temples, bridge and trims. The innovative construction is based on a ‘floating’ lens design idea. A rimless base is combined with accent rings that are 3D printed. Only by this technique the parts can be produced. The post-process to get this smooth surface on a 3D printed metal parts requires time and experience. The result is a super lightweight and stable frame. To achieve better sun protection the rings are enlarged on the side. By adding areas of recess, the surface stays a bit rougher and shows the 3D printed original surface. A minimalistic, screwless and maintenance free hinge plus full adjustability make these sunglasses stand out.