Design for Jewellery Makers: Inspiration, Development and Creation

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A clear, comprehensive and practical 'how-to' guide and resource for all aspects of designing jewellery.

This book contains expert guidance on design and the design process, and includes step-by-step project briefs and themes for readers to use as a basis for developing their own ideas. It is suitable for all intermediate and professional jewellery makers, as well as those attending jewellery-making courses and who have taken up jewellery making as a hobby.

The book explores the design process in depth, from fundamentals of jewellery design such as practical considerations to high-level conceptual briefs. Included within its pages are:

• Inspirational contributions from 12 contemporary jewellery designers. A chapter of the book shows how 6 of them apply the concepts in the book to their own practice
• 16 design techniques: a mix of drawing and model-making techniques including how todraw facetted gemstones, sketching, producing a technical drawing, paper models, mould-making and casting
• 5 technique-led projects: examples of how you can use basic jewellers skills together with the design techniques to create a specific type of jewellery. These includecutting out to make a band ring, press-forming for a brooch, and using repeated patterns for a necklace
• 8 process-led design projects show different creative approaches to the same challenge. For example6 different ways of connecting links without soldering, or 12 different ways of setting a stone
• The book finishes with 10 open projects briefs and finished inspirational examples for the reader to try out and learn from.

Author Bio

Award-winning jewellery designer Louise Seijen ten Hoorn trained at the Zadkine College (formerly Vakschool Schoonhaven), The Netherlands and the Royal College of Art in the UK. She lives and works in London, where she creates one-off pieces, small production lines and commissions. Louise works predominantly in metal, as well as materials such as plastic, rope and rubber.

Her work has been exhibited in the UK as well as worldwide inthe USA, Lithuania, Portugal and the Netherlands. Besides being a jewellery practitioner, Louise teaches short courses in design and jewellery making at various Adult Education Colleges in London.

Recent exhibitions and events
How much is that doggy in the window, At Work Gallery, 2022
The re-Incarnation of Andy Warhol, At Work Gallery, London, 2020
Connections/Connessioni, ACJ Touring exhibition, various locations UK/Italy, 2019, 2020
Tales of the subconscious, ACJ + Gill Wing Jewellery, London, 2019
City Lit centenary exhibition, City Lit, London, 2019
Van Gogh at work, At Work Gallery, London, 2019
Tincal Lab challenge: Jewellery & Technology, Tincal Lab, Porto 2018
I am my own muse, At Work Gallery, London, 2018
Blinkered, At Work Gallery - Brunel Museum, London, 2018
20:20 Visions, ACJ Touring exhibition, various locations, UK, 2017, 2018
Loot, Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2017

Selected awards
Selected awards from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths Craftsmanship & Design Council, 2021, 2019, 2016, 2008, 2007, 2006
Goldsmiths Fair graduate bursary, 2016
London Jewellery Exports bursary, 2008
Bright ideas award, awarded by Craft Central and sponsored by Deutsche Bank, 2007