This Jewelry Designer Puts Sculpture (Literally) at Your Fingertips

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. In this post, Alice focuses on sculptural rings.

For those of you who are extremely married.

You're looking at Sculpturings by Rebecca Rose, an artist who splits her time between Florida and California. See many more in her gallery!

Bonus

Before the over-the-top wedding ring, you might want this over-the-top engagement ring. The legs of the man on bended knee are meant to slip around your finger! By Japan's Lucie.

Even more jewelry:

• Erstwhile Jewelry (New York) - antique engagement
• H+H (UK) - nail jewels
• Jenny Bird (Ontario) - gold tassels

 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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Ahoy, Matey: Look What Jewelry Designers Are Making with Barnacles

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. In this post, Alice focuses on jewelry from the sea.

Engraved barnacles! Whenever I say "barnacle," I feel like I'm saying "bare knuckle" with some indeterminate accent. And it's weird because barnacles sorta kinda look like knucklebones. But knucklebones aren't even from knuckles, they're from ankles, and sheep ankles, at that. They're what people once used to play jacks. Anyway, as I was saying: engraved barnacles! See UK jeweler Jane Layton for more.

Bonus

The cast silver "Black Diamond Barnacle Ring" by Los Angeles jeweler Kristen Dorsey is set with black or champagne diamonds.

Even more jewelry:

• Hannah Blount (Massachussets) - barnacles & more
• Stephanie Walton (UK) - metal & textiles
• Lucia K. (Seattle) - chains & crystals

 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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Jewelry Inspiration: Ice Ice Baby

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. In this post, Alice focuses on some icy ring visions.

What lurks beneath the surface of Lake Vostok? Belgian artist Lien Hereijgers imagines the goings-on in the sub-glacial Antarctic lake, which lies approximately 4,000 metres below a sheet of ice. And I thought my room was cold.

Bonus

Let's bring things back up to the surface, where there's nice things like oxygen. This "iceberg" ring is one of several icy pieces by Sicilian-born, Ibiza-based Sara Divita.

Even more jewelry:

• Cast & Combed (California) - colour in resin
• Magdalena Paszkiewicz (Poland) - conceptual & anatomical
• Mirpuri Jewellery (UK) - contemporary metal

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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Metal and Mesh Blend in Chic Jewelry Collections

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. In this post, Alice focuses on wonderful metal work.

Are you feeling this ring? You should be — it's the "tactile" ring by UK jeweller Carrie Dickens.

Check out her gallery for lots of interesting, organic metalwork.

Bonus

For more draping metal rings, see Brooklyn's Semi Jewels (Ren Ariel Sano), who likes to "emphasize the tactile quality of the materials."

Even more jewelry:

• Buddha to Buddha (Netherlands) - chunky chains
• Jessica Flinn (UK) - metal lace
• Jess LC (Illinois) - bright baubles

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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Geometry and Strong Lines Inspire These Jewelry Creations

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. In this post, Alice focuses on imaginative uses of line and geometric form.

In grade 4, while making posters for Easter, my art teacher got me hooked on the technique of going over the outlines of my drawings with a black Sharpie. To my 9-year-old self, it made everything look so much better. While I doubt London's Janice Zethraeus was Sharpie-crazy like me, the illustrator-turned-jeweller shows her love of thick, fluid lines in her metalwork. Shown above is her "hole" ring in oxidized silver.

Bonus

Here's another ring my Sharpie-loving former (and present-day) self would love. Ring by Germany's Corinna Loelgen, whose work is based on architectural forms.

Even more jewelry:

• Victoria Thay (UK) - lines on hexagons
• Brice Garrett (Massachusetts) - wood art
• Ana Cavalheiro (Virginia) - moonstone cabs

Interested in learning more about 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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