Jewelry Design

Jewelry design is the art or profession of creating, crafting, fabricating, or rendering designs for jewelry. It involves a very abstract kind of thinking, after all jewelry is like an art, something to be seen and created and not at all a technical or exact science. Jewelry design is an interesting field because it offers almost unlimited combinations of gemstones and precious metals. Currently, the strongest trend in jewelry design is diamonds set in white metal, particularly platinum.

Silver plays an enormous role in Jewelry Design. People love it because it's a pure, elemental, expression of the powers of the Moon. In many of the designs, silver stands alone, but is also combined with other metals and semi-precious gemstones to create a dazzling array of one-of-a-kind pieces. Silver is a noble metal. This means it's resistant to the corrosive influence of other chemicals, but at the same time, it is among the most malleable of all metals. If you notice that your silver jewelry is become tarnished, use a jewelry buff cloth to gently remove tarnish and then store it in a clean plastic bag.

Designers are innovators because they continually are taking new initiatives so they can stay ahead of their competition. The unique items that these artists create let your individuality shine. They have dashed the age old dictum that says that a big stone has to be placed in the center of the piece and then a lot of little diamonds must be placed around the outside. Designers such as David Yurman, Charles Krypell and Lagos have even used consumer media to become nationally recognized. At this point, the best and most skilled custom jewelry designers have moved to using 3D-CAD to create designs that wouldn't be feasible otherwise.

Bead Jewelry is becoming increasingly popular as a hobby. Bead jewelry designs are used for many things such as decoration for clothing, shoes, and, of course, decorative jewelry. Bead histories are often handed down among families and traders. Beads are generally cast in two parts then joined to make a solid core that is then carefully decorated with intricate detail.

There is something indescribably beautiful about the look of a diamond encrusted eternity ring as it turns on a finger or about the look of a gem-encrusted gold necklace around a graceful neck. That's what drives the jewelry design industry. They know the key to jewelry design is that the piece serves the wearer and makes the wearer look more beautiful.