Jewelry Designers Should Be Avid Jewelry Collectors

The Carrotbox is a site dedicated to all those wonderful rings made of glass, lucite, resin, plastic, jade, wood, bakelite, metal, and even stone. Alice Matsumoto from Vancouver, BC, Canada has a ring shop and has kindly given us permission to inspire our jewelry lovers at Sheffield with her discoveries. But unlike past posts, I wanted to share some of the rings in her own personal collection. She ingeniously enables people to click on a color to see her sorted-by-color ring collection, and they've certainly helped to inspire her own jewelry designs. Here are a few colors in her amazing ring collection.

I'm green with envy over Alice's collection of green rings.
 

Alice has only taken 333 photos of rings in her collection - but she has countless more to take!
 

Some of Alice's own ring designs - diverse, unique, playful.

Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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Make Your Jewelry Collection Tell a Story

All of our Sheffield students are creative, and there are many outlets for their creativity. One popular form is designing and making jewelry, and we teach the fundamentals of jewelry design and guide our students through techniques and materials, share the work of great designers, and encourage the building of collections. A jewelry collection tells a story. It features a core set of materials, forms, and common features. But it must hang together and form a cohesive whole. We found this video of San Francisco jeweler Jan Michaels, kicking off her "Antikwa" collection. Her new line tells a compelling visual story about antique jewelry in three categories: Fragments, Water, Earth & Sky. Very tribal, very elaborate, very elemental, and very primitive and powerful.

Interested in learning more about how to express yourself through jewelry design? Explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

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