Jewelry Inspiration: Combining Beads with a Surprise Medium

Niki Stylianou
Necklace: Spheres 2009
Rubber hand cut + hand painted+ fabricated, metal, turquoise beads 
Photo : Niki Stylianou

 
Klimt02 is a website that provides an international forum for contemporary jewelry in a creative space that offers knowledge, information, debates, and exchanges - all within the artistic realm of jewelry. Based in Barcelona, Spain, Kilmt02 inspires everyone interested in the selection, quality, art, technology, and creation of art jewelry. Sheffield School has kindly been given permission to share works of global designers here on our website. Today's post focuses on a jewelry designer from Athens, Niki Stylianou. Click here for more samples of her work made from beads - as our jewelry design students are learning to use - and rubber!

Niki Stylianou

Niki Stylianou
Necklace: Fragments 2010
Rubber hand cut + fabricated, white coral beads
Photo : Niki Stylianou

Niki Stylianou
Pendant: Sections 2010
Rubber hand cut + hand sewn, threads, beads, oxidized silver
Front view
Photo : Niki Stylianou

Niki Stylianou
Pendant: Sections 2010
Rubber hand cut + hand sewn, threads, beads, oxidized silver
Back view
Photo : Niki Stylianou

Niki Stylianou
Neckpiece: Colonies 2010
Rubber hand cut + hand painted + fabricated, beads, gum elastic, silver
Detail
Photo: Niki Stylianou

Statement

The Ancient Greek word «kosmos» could be read as rhythm; as order; as the making of a pattern that could be traced again and again and be embodied in the cosmos as we understand it. In a way «kosmos» makes the cosmos visible.   «Kosmos» could also be read as adornment. Homeric epics describe how «kosmos» clothes the body as a second skin to make it appear. Through my work I try to redefine «kosmos», designing adornments made of ordinary and overlooked everyday objects. Things that I de-construct and re-arrange in space/puzzles, that clothe the body while speaking of immaterial relationships:  The precious and the non-precious; the beautiful and the ambiguous; the familiar and the unusual; the lasting and the ephemeral.  website: www.nikistylianoujewelry.com mail: nikistyl@artserve.net

If you're interested in learning more about jewelry design, we encourage you to 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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Jewelry Designs Look Much Better Online When They Spin

Look at the fantastic GIF or animated image I found on the Klimt02 international jewelry design website! An animated product that spins to show all angles of a jewelry piece will show off your work to maximum effect, as Australian jewelry designer Julia deVille illustrates with the spin view of her Pave Rook necklace. Here's a video I found showing many other product "spins" to give you ideas of how you can show off your work better on your website, blog, or Etsy store.

The video will steer you to the Swiftspin360 website, and I'd like to direct you to their 7 Steps to Creating a 360 Product Spin. Join the website in order to freely access their articles and downloads. While the pitch is to photographers, if you're a jewelry designer with a camera, we'd like you and our jewelry design students to experiment with creating some beautiful product spins of your special work!

If you're interested in learning more about wedding planning, we encourage you to 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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Jewelry Inspiration: Bead Queen

Klimt02 is a website that provides an international forum for contemporary jewelry in a creative space that offers knowledge, information, debates, and exchanges - all within the artistic realm of jewelry. Based in Barcelona, Spain, Kilmt02 inspires everyone interested in the selection, quality, art, technology, and creation of art jewelry. Sheffield School has kindly been given permission to share works of global designers here on our website. Today's post focuses on a jewelry designer we've singled out in our Sheffield School course in Jewelry Design: Beading & Wire Working - the incredibly accomplished Suzanne Golden.

Suzanne Golden

 
Suzanne Golden
Ring: Around the Daisy 2011
Tubular, Spiral Peyote Stitching

Suzanne Golden
Piece: Fish In Bloom 2011
Netting, acrylic beads, wood beads, seed beads

Suzanne Golden
Bracelets: Square 2011
Right Angle Weave, Embellishing, Acrylic Beads

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Jewelry Inspiration: Wood You, Could You?

 

Klimt02 is a website that provides an international forum for contemporary jewelry in a creative space that offers knowledge, information, debates, and exchanges - all within the artistic realm of jewelry. Based in Barcelona, Spain, Kilmt02 inspires everyone interested in the selection, quality, art, technology, and creation of art jewelry. Sheffield School has kindly been given permission to share works of global designers here on our website. Today's post focuses on a jewelry designer from Greenville, SC, Kate Furman, whose jewelry designs use a prolific amount of wood + talent.

Kate Furman

Kate Furman
Necklace: Splinters 2012
Found wood, brass
32” x 16” x 1”

Kate Furman
Necklace: Splinters 2012
Found wood, brass
32” x 16” x 1”
Detail

Kate Furman
Necklace: Limbs 2012
Found wood, brass
12” x 2 1/2” x 1 1/2”

Kate Furman
Necklace: Hewn 2012
Found wood, brass, steel, sterling silver
15” x 3” x 1 1/2”

Kate Furman
Necklace: Hewn 2012
Found wood, brass, steel, sterling silver
15” x 3” x 1 1/2”
Detail

Kate Furman
Necklace: Reassembled 2012
Found wood, steel, suede, epoxy resin
4 1/2” x 3 “ x 1 1/2”

Statement

Nature is my greatest inspiration. While in the woods surrounded by the astonishing details of a tree trunk’s swollen scar or the intricate furrows of creatures burrowing beneath its bark, my senses are fully engaged. In my work, I translate this admiration and wonder into jewelry, a format as intimate to the body as the moments I pass in untouched, tranquil wilderness. After gathering detritus from the forest floor, I manipulate, alter, and respond to the beauty within branches, bark, and sticks. By tracing and replicating the curves of the human body, my pieces contour and move to it, thereby intertwining and activating each other.  I am interested in calling attention to the intersection between people and the environment through ways the two affect each other. As Sigmund Freud describes in Civilization and Its Discontents, humans repress the environment and their animal instinct in order to control nature and live a civilized life. My process responds to this need without taking full authority over the natural materials. Instead, I direct a harmonious dialogue between them, revealing the ways we affect and intersect each other. The resulting forms show a sense of my influence but retain an inherent rawness; a collaboration and language of mark-making develops between us. - Kate Furman   website: www.katefurman.com mail: furman.kate@gmail.com

If you're interested in learning more about jewelry design, we encourage you to 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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Jewelry Inspiration: Show Me the Money

Klimt02 is a website that provides an international forum for contemporary jewelry in a creative space that offers knowledge, information, debates, and exchanges - all within the artistic realm of jewelry. Based in Barcelona, Spain, Kilmt02 inspires everyone interested in the selection, quality, art, technology, and creation of art jewelry. Sheffield School has kindly been given permission to share works of global designers here on our website. Today's post focuses on a jewelry designer from New York City, Lauren Tickle, whose "Increasing Value" collection converts actual paper currency into more valuable objects.

Lauren Tickle

Lauren Tickle
Necklace: $300.00 US Dollars, Currency Converted 2011
US Currency, Silver, Latex, Monofilament, Surgical Steel
11.43 x 20.32 x 22.86 cm
Photo Credit: Marc Creedon

Lauren Tickle
Brooch: $54.00 and $22.00 US Dollars, Currency Converted 2012
US Currency, Silver, Latex, Monofilament, Surgical Steel
Photo Credit: Lauren Vanessa Tickle

Lauren Tickle
Brooch: $54.00 US Dollars, Currency Converted 2012
US Currency, Silver, Latex, Monofilament, Surgical Steel
1.9 x 9.53 x 9.53 cm
Photo Credit: Lauren Vanessa Tickle

Lauren Tickle
Necklace: Green With Envy, $350.00 US Dollars, Currency Converted 2011
US Currency, Silver, Latex, Thread
7 x 20.32 x 20.32 cm
Photo Credit: Rachit Shukla

Lauren Tickle
Brooch: $36.00 US Dollars, Currency Converted 2012
US Currency, Silver, Latex, Monofilament, Surgical Steel
1.9 x 8.26 x 8.26 cm
Photo Credit: Lauren Vanessa Tickle

Lauren Tickle
Brooch: $22.00 US Dollars, Currency Converted 2012
1.58 x 6.65 x 9.19 cm
Photo Credit: Lauren Vanessa Tickle

Lauren Tickle
Brooch: $22.00 US Dollars, Currency Converted 2012
US Currency, Silver, Latex, Monofilament, Surgical Steel
1.58 x 6.65 x 9.19 cm
Back side
Photo Credit: Lauren Vanessa Tickle

Lauren Tickle
Brooch: $22.00 US Dollars, Currency Converted (Body) 2012
US Currency, Silver, Latex, Monofilament, Surgical Steel
1.58 x 6.65 x 9.19 cm
Photo Credit: Rachit Shukla

Statement

“INCREASING VALUE”  New Object’s Value > Sum of Currency Converted  My work is an experiment in the concepts of value and adornment. The Values Exploration process takes currency of defined value, distills it to graphic elements, then resynthesizes an object of much greater value. How and why are these notes distanced from their face value? Idea, concept, process, and labor create value. Is this new, finished form a microcosm of industrial production? or a parody?  I force wearers and observers to reflect on the concept of adornment in our society. One of the most conscious actions humans undertake is the decision of what to wear or not. My work takes underlying materialism and makes it explicit, imploring evaluation from all sides in each social context.    - Lauren Tickle   website: www.laurentickle.com mail: ltickle@me.com

If you're interested in learning more about jewelry design, we encourage you to 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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