500 Plastic Jewelry Designs

500 Plastic Jewelry Designs
Author: Marthe Le Van
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2009
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781600593406

The popular 500 series takes its hippest, most fun approach yet, with an intoxicatingly vibrant and technically diverse collection of contemporary jewelry. Sloan has put together a survey of the best work being done with this thoroughly modern material.

Mastering Contemporary Jewelry Design

Mastering Contemporary Jewelry Design
Author: Loretta Lam
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764359194

An accessible and easy-to-use guide to the principles and elements of jewelry design, this resource helps jewelry makers of all skill levels take their designs from good to great. Instructor and expert Loretta Lam offers guidance on working with a wide array of materials, along with exercises to help you explore new design concepts before applying them to your work directly. Dozens of stunning examples from designers around the world help inspire anyone looking for a new source of creativity. Learn how to discover your personal inspiration and process, master the use of the design elements and principles, establish a design hierarchy and find your voice, draw on the inestimable value of critique, and more. You will keep this book close at hand and pick it up time and again for inspiration and as an essential reference.

An Inspired Style

An Inspired Style
Author: Juliet Weir-de La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Acc Art Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Artist-designed jewelry
ISBN: 9781851497294

Presents the stories and designs of the leading contemporary jewellery designers working across the globe today.

Jewellery Design and Development

Jewellery Design and Development
Author: Norman Cherry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-07-22
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1408124971

Through a series of interviews with internationally acclaimed jewellery designers, Jewellery Design and Development examines in detail how jewellers progress their initial ideas and develop them, from concept to finished piece.

Jewelry Design

Jewelry Design
Author: Natalio Martín Arroyo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Jewelers
ISBN: 9788499367767

The emergence of terms like "fine art jewellery" or "author's jewellery" is an eloquent sign of the times in the field, for jewellery is now more "art" than it has ever been. This book compiles the work of more than 70 international designers through 500 images and covers the whole range of contemporary jewellery trends, shapes, materials and techniques: new retro jewellery, ecological jewellery, avant-garde jewellery, kawai jewellery... Jewellery Design is a sourcebook of inspiration aimed not only at designers, either professional or amateur, but also at anyone interested in one of today's more creative art fields. 500 photographs

New Necklaces

New Necklaces
Author: Nicolas Estrada
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Artist-designed jewelry
ISBN: 9788416504084

A special selection of impressive pieces by more than 180 artists, this book showcases the current trends in contemporary jewelry.

Contemporary American Jewelry Design

Contemporary American Jewelry Design
Author: Ettagale Blauer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 147574854X

The Phenomenon of Studio Goldsmithing When the history of art in the 1980s is written, much of it will be etched in gold. This is the time of the contemporary goldsmith, an artist who chooses to work in precious metals rather than oils or marble. The contemporary jeweler-as-artist has only recently become a re cognized force. With rare exceptions, the whole field is little more than thirty years old. But it is only within the past fifteen years that these jewelers have entered the jewelry mainstream. The phenomenon of contemporary goldsmithing embraces an eclectic group of artists, each with a unique vision, each taking a per sonal path to jewelry producing. They have as little relationship to the typical, mass-produced jewelry as a champagne maker has to a bottler of orange soda. They approach a piece of art, not a piece of metal. The work is personal and a perfect expression of the "back to the land" movement that spawned it. Many of these goldsmiths were looking not merely for a way to make a living but for a way to make a life that was worthy of living. Running a business while trying to remain a creative metalsmith at the same time is the ongoing challenge. The jeweler-artists have solved or resolved these often conflicting needs in slightly different ways and in a beautiful variety of techniques and styles. Their meth ods, their growth, and their work are discussed here.

Twentieth-century Jewelry

Twentieth-century Jewelry
Author: Lodovica Rizzoli Eleuteri
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1994
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Spectacularly beautiful, this authoritative book presents jewelry designs of this century. With almost two hundred full-color photographs specially commissioned for this book and archival pictures of pieces that have disappeared into private collections, the volume features the finest artworks in precious metals and jewels from collections around the world, including creations by Lalique, Cartier, Boucheron, Bulgari, Tiffany, and David Webb. The fascinating text surveys the glittering world of gems with an illustrated introductory essay investigating the development of jewelry design at the end of the 1800s, and the shift from Victorian and Art Nouveau works to pieces stamped with the personality and vision of a single designer. The next chapter thoroughly examines the successive revolutions in style of the twentieth century. The balance of the book is a cornucopia of photographs portraying pieces from the beginning of the century through the 1960s: the grand era of commissions and patrons. Here you will find the Duchess of Windsor's famous necklace of diamonds and rubies as well as a fabulous pin in the shape of a World War II tank, and a veritable menagerie of diamond-studded elephants, enameled tigers, and jade dragons. This thorough history is a dazzling jewelbox of a book.

Andrew Grima

Andrew Grima
Author: William Grant
Publisher: Acc Art Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781788841061

- The first major monograph on Andrew Grima, arguably Britain's greatest jewelry maestro- A glittering retrospective that encompasses Andrew Grima's life, career and legacy- Detailed pictures demonstrate Grima's impeccable artistry as a modernist designer - Preface by TV celebrity and Antique Roadshow expert, Geoffrey MunnThe father of modern jewelry, the golden engineer, the King of Bling... These are just some of the epithets assigned to Andrew Grima, the British genius who marched in the vanguard of a 1960s London-based movement that created a new vocabulary for jewelry design. Jeweler to the royals and the jet set, to the rule makers and the tastemakers, Grima was a feted celebrity who appeared on talk shows, in Pathé newsreels and in advertisements for Canada Dry. He won The Queen's Award for Export, The Duke of Edinburgh's Prize for Elegant Design and a record 11 De Beers Diamonds International Awards (the 'Oscars' of the jewelry world). His business empire spanned the globe. Yet his name fell prey to time and changing tastes, and today, with the exception of jewelry snobs, dealers and auction houses, he is all but forgotten. This book illuminates the career of a man who participated in a golden age of British creativity. It contains a dazzling array of never-before-seen sketches, designs and photographs from the Grima archives and includes a sparkling preface from the doyen of jewelry experts, TV celebrity Geoffrey Munn. A must-buy publication for art and jewelry lovers alike.