My progress for my final exhibition is well underway and I am just going into production stages. I have been working on a pendant design with stone setting details. I have previously been working on the idea of the necklace, which is made up of 6 pieces, having a small blue sapphire set in the corner of each piece. However I have had the opportunity to develop my design further and have designed the necklace with 2 sections having a grain set line of gemstones.
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It already feels like this year has flow by and I am now starting preparation for our final degree show in June! For my final project I want to explore the concept of moveable jewellery. I want to create pieces of multi functional jewellery for women that can be taken from day to evening wear. As with every project I revisited my mood boards and started to sketch out some quick concepts and ideas that I could further develop on CAD. I had a lot of different ideas to work from initially and was finding it difficult to take the concepts forward without getting too bogged down on the function of the object rather than the aesthetic of the jewellery. So I worked on looking at imagery I like, patterns and structure to develop an aesthetic to work with. I began experimenting with Spirographs and developed my own Spirograph pattern on Rhino. So I promised to keep you guys updated on the HSBC commemorative medal project and any developments. Since my last post:
There was a very lengthy testing process to get the design made in silver. Because of the scale of the design (100mm by 100mm) it had to be trailed on a few different 3D printers before being moulded and cast. Below is a slide show of some of the tests that were undertaken on the Objet and EnvisionTec. |
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