So You Want To Be A Jewelry Designer: Merging Your Voice With Form

by Warren Feld

Overview

SO YOU WANT TO BE A JEWELRY DESIGNER

You make jewelry.  That is what you do.

But when you think jewelry and speak jewelry and work jewelry, this is what you have become.  This is your purpose.

Becoming a Jewelry Designer is exciting.  With each piece, you are challenged with this profound question:  Why does some jewelry draw people's attention, and others do not?   When designers turn to how-to books or art theory texts, however, these do not uncover the necessary answers.  They do not show you how to make trade-offs between beauty and function. Nor how to introduce your pieces publicly.    You get insufficient practical guidance about knowing when your piece is finished and successful.  In short, you do not learn about design.  You do not learn the essentials about how to go beyond basic mechanics, anticipate the wearer's understandings and desires, or gain management control over the process.

So You Want To Be A Jewelry Designer reinterprets how to apply techniques and modify art theories from the Jewelry Designer's perspective.  This very detailed book, by jewelry designer Warren S. Feld, reveals how to become literate and fluent in jewelry design.  

The major topics covered include,

1.    Jewelry Beyond Craft: Gaining A Disciplinary Literacy and Fluency in Design

2.    Getting Started

3.    What Is Jewelry, Really?

4.    Materials, Techniques and Technologies

5.    Rules of Composition, Construction and Manipulation

           Design Elements

           Color, Point, Line, Plane, Shape, Form, Theme

           Architectural Basics

6.    Design Management

7.    Introducing Your Designs Publicly

8.    Developing Those Intuitive Skills Within: Creativity, Inspiration and Aspiration,    

      Passion

9.    Jewelry In Context: Contemporary Jewelry, Fashion, Taste, Style, Cognition,

      Sexuality, Self-Care

10.Teaching Disciplinary Literacy In Jewelry Design

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985722130
Publisher:	Warren Feld Jewelry
Publication date:	04/18/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	662
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

For Warren Feld, Jewelry Designer, (www.warrenfeldjewelry.com), beading and jewelry making have been wonderful adventures. These adventures have taken Warren from the basics of bead stringing and bead weaving, to pearl knotting, micro-macrame, wire working, wire weaving and silversmithing, and onward to more complex jewelry designs which build on the strengths of a full range of technical skills and experiences. What excites Warren is finding answers to such questions as: - What does it mean to be fluent and literate in design?- What are the implications for defining jewelry as an object versus as an intent?- Why does some jewelry draw your attention, and others do not?- How does jewelry design differ from art or craft?- How do you judge a piece as finished and successful?In 2000, Warren founded The Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts (CBJA) as the educational program for Be Dazzled Beads-Land of Odds in Nashville, Tennessee. The program approaches education from a Design Perspective. There is a strong focus on skills development. There is a major emphasis on teaching how to make better choices when selecting beads, other parts and stringing materials, and how to bring these altogether into a beautiful, yet functional, piece of jewelry. There are requirements for sequencing classes - that is, taking classes in a developmental order. His pieces have appeared in beading and jewelry magazines and books, including Perlen Posie ("Gwynian Ropes Bracelet", No. 21, 2014), Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry ("Little Tapestries: Ghindia", Lark Publications, 2012). One piece ("Canyon Sunrise"), which won 4th place in Swarovski's Naturally Inspired Competition (2008), is in the Swarovski museum in Innsbruck, Austria. His work has been written up in The Beader's Guide to Jewelry Design (Margie Deeb, Lark Publications, 2014). He has been a faculty member at CraftArtEdu.com, developing video tutorials. He has been selected as an instructor for the Bead & Button Show, June, 2019, teaching 3 pieces - Japanese Garden Bracelet, Etruscan Square Stitch Bracelet, and ColorBlock Bracelet. In March 2020, Warren led a travel-enrichment program on Celebrity Cruise Lines, centered on jewelry making, beginning with a cruise from Miami to Cozumel and Key West.Personal style: multi-method, intricate color play, adaptive of traditions to contemporary design, experimental.Owner, Be Dazzled Beads in Nashville, and Land of Odds (https://www.landofodds.com) (https://www.landofodds.com ). He is probably best known for creating the international The Ugly Necklace Contest, where good jewelry designers attempt to overcome our pre-wired brains' fear response for resisting anything Ugly. He has also sponsored All Dolled Up: Beaded Art Doll Competition and The Illustrative Beader: Beaded Tapestry Competition.

Table of Contents

 Acknowledgements, p. 1

 An Introduction, p. 5

 

 Section 1-JEWELRY BEYOND CRAFT, p. 15

 1. Jewelry Beyond Craft, p. 17

 

 Section 2-GETTING STARTED, p. 23

 2a. Becoming the Bead Artist and Jewelry Designer, p. 25

 2b. 5 Questions Every Jewelry Designer Should Answer,

       p. 35

 2c. Channeling Excitementm, p. 51

 2d. Developing Your Passion, p. 67

 2e. Cultivating Practice, p. 83

 

 Section 3-WHAT IS JEWELRY, p. 103

 3. What Is Jewelry, Really?, p. 105

 

 Section 4-MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES,

      p. 121

 4a. Materials - Knowing What To Know, p. 123

 4b. Techniques and Technologies - Knowing What To Do, p. 155

 4c. Mixed Media Techniques, p. 191

 

 Section 5-RULES OF COMPOSITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND     

 MANIPULATION, p. 195

 5a. Composition - Playing With Design Elements, p. 197

 5b. The Jewelry Designer's Approach To Color, p. 215

 5c. Point Line Plane Shape Form Theme, p. 253

 5d. Jewelry Design Principles: Composing, Constructing, Manipulating,

      p. 277

 5e. How To Design An Ugly Necklace -- The Ultimate Challenge, p. 315

 5f. Architectural Basics, p. 337

 5g. Architectural Basics - Anatomy of a Necklace, p. 365

 5h. Architectural Basics - Sizing, p. 375

 

 Section 6-DESIGN MANAGEMENT, p. 381

 6a. The Proficient Designer: The Path To Resonance, p. 383

 6b. Jewelry Design: A Managed Process, p. 411

 6c. Designing With Components, p. 423

 

 Section 7-INTRODUCING YOUR DESIGNS PUBLICLY, p. 447

 7a. Shared Understandings and Desires, p. 449

 7b. Backward-Design Is Forwards Thinking, p. 481

 

 Section 8-DEVELOPING THOSE INTUITIVE SKILLS WITHIN,

      p. 491

 8a. Creativity Isn't Found, It's Developed, p. 493

 8b. Inspiration and Aspiration, p. 507

 8c. Your Passion For Design, p. 517

 

 Section 9-JEWELRY IN CONTEXT, p. 535

 9a. Contemporary Jewelry Is Not A Look - It's A Way Of Thinking, p. 537

 9b. Contemporizing Traditional Jewelry, p. 555

 9c Fashion Style Taste Art Design, p. 571

 9d. Designing With The Brain In Mind: Perception, Cognition, Sexuality,

       p. 583

 9e. Self-Care, p. 597

 

 Section 10-TEACHING DISCIPLINARY LITERACY, p. 605

 10. Teaching Disciplinary Literacy In Jewelry Design, p. 607

 

 Final Words of Advice, p. 645

 Thank You, p. 647

 About Warren Feld, p. 649

 Other Articles and Tutorials, p. 653