Cedric Mitchell x Meta: Creating With Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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Meta partnered with Los Angeles artist and designer Cedric Mitchell to capture the creative process from a new point of view. Using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Mitchell documented the heat, movement, teamwork, and split-second decisions behind his Modern Funk glass practice while staying fully engaged with the material.
The campaign connected art, design, wearable technology, and social storytelling. It showed how a hands-free creative tool can bring an audience directly into the studio without interrupting the work taking place.
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Watch Cedric Mitchell use Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to document his Modern Funk glassmaking process.
Cedric Mitchell x Meta
The Meta collaboration centered on a simple idea: let people experience glassmaking through the artist’s eyes.
Glass demands full attention. The material is hot, constantly moving, and shaped through timing, instinct, and communication. Traditional filming can document that process from the outside. Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses created an intimate first-person view from inside the action.
The resulting content gave viewers a direct look at how a Cedric Mitchell Design object moves from molten glass to a finished form.
It was not only a product demonstration. It was a story about creativity, access, technology, and the people behind handmade design.
Hands-Free Storytelling Inside the Glass Studio
The strongest technology supports the creative process instead of pulling attention away from it.
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses allowed me to photograph and record the work while keeping my hands available for the tools, material, and team around me. That matters in a hot shop, where every second and every movement counts.
The first-person perspective also revealed details an outside camera can miss: the glow of the furnace, the rotation of the pipe, the movement of color, and the decisions happening in real time.
For the audience, the experience felt immediate. For me, it felt natural.
Instagram as a Creative Platform
Instagram has never been only a gallery for finished work. It is part studio journal, part archive, and part direct connection to the people following the practice.
Sharing process allows collectors, collaborators, students, brands, and the wider community to understand what handmade work requires. They see more than the final object. They see the experimentation, labor, teamwork, failure, and repetition behind it.
That direct access has helped independent artists build audiences without waiting for traditional gatekeepers to tell the story first.
The Meta campaign highlighted that shift. Creative technology and social platforms can help artists maintain authorship while reaching people around the world.
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Modern Funk Through a First-Person Lens
Modern Funk is the design language that connects my work across glass, furniture, lighting, objects, interiors, and fashion.
It is built through bold color, playful geometry, movement, asymmetry, and cultural memory. The influences move between Memphis design, hip-hop, graffiti, streetwear, architecture, and the visual energy of growing up in Tulsa before building a practice in Los Angeles.
Ray-Ban Meta gave the audience another way to enter that world.
Instead of only seeing the finished color and form, viewers could experience the physical rhythm that creates it.
Creative Technology Meets Traditional Craft
Glassmaking is an ancient process. Smart glasses are a contemporary tool. Bringing them together created a useful tension between tradition and innovation.
The technology did not replace the hand, skill, or human connection required to make the object. It provided a new way to document and share those qualities.
That is the kind of collaboration I find most interesting. The brand and product become part of an authentic process, while the artist brings a lived perspective that cannot be manufactured.
The result should feel credible to both audiences.
A Collaboration Built Around Authentic Use
The Ray-Ban Meta partnership worked because the product served a real purpose inside my practice.
I was not stepping away from the studio to perform a separate idea. I was using the technology inside the environment where I already create, teach, document, and communicate.
That alignment allowed the campaign to show the product in action while preserving the voice and integrity of Cedric Mitchell Design.
For future creative partnerships, that remains the goal: build a concept where the artist, audience, product, and story genuinely belong together.
Collaboration Capabilities
Cedric Mitchell Design works with brands, agencies, museums, cultural organizations, and design partners on projects that connect craft, design, storytelling, and culture.
Potential collaborations include:
- Artist-led brand campaigns and product storytelling
- Creative technology demonstrations and creator content
- Custom glass objects, awards, gifts, and limited editions
- Product design, color development, and material exploration
- Experiential installations and live glassmaking activations
- Furniture, lighting, interiors, and multidisciplinary design
- Speaking, teaching, workshops, and community programming
- Licensing, retail capsules, and culturally grounded collaborations
Each partnership begins with the same question: how can the material, product, platform, and audience come together in a way that feels specific and real?
Partner With Cedric Mitchell Design
Cedric Mitchell is available for select collaborations across art, design, technology, automotive, fashion, hospitality, architecture, education, and culture.
If you are developing a campaign, commissioned object, public experience, product collaboration, live activation, or original content series, Cedric Mitchell Design can help build the concept from material research through execution and storytelling.
Contact Cedric Mitchell Design about a collaboration.
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