[Jewelry making - Article 00396] - Re: [Orchid] Designer Day 2005 Review

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    Thank you Karen for such a succint and excellent report on Designer
    Day. Your lectures went very well, and there were posters all over
    for your upcoming book for Orchid, the first in AJM's Orchid book
    series. Looking forwards to it. Karen is the most wonderful star and
    leader in her actions for the Ganoksin Project. 

    There was of course the Orchid dinner, crammed with people, Joel did
    a lovely job and Kenneth was seen serving people right and left.
    Lovely. It is interesting, too the friends we have in the industry
    who attend Orchid events. 

    It was a particularly good show. MJSA has corralled all the events
    that have been emerging at the show over the past six years and put
    them together into an a conference format. Cindy Edelstein's
    Designer Day is truly superb and her events are matchless. Platinum
    day assembled by Juergen Maerz was really great, with highlights
    like Brad Simon. Andrea Hill was fantastic, she did a amazing job of
    presentations, at Executive day and elsewhere. In fact, I think that
    as an attendee the MJSA New York show has turned into something
    really special, tons of information and educational options,
    networking with the field, meetings between groups (and it is often
    art, design and industry working together these days in planning
    projects). I am not sure how much it was to attend the educational
    components, but I think it in the $150 range. MJSA has turned into
    the industry powerhouse in America, working hard to benefit the
    field in all kinds of ways, from leading research into innovation in
    the field and reporting on it. Rich Youmans has been point man in
    this. 

    In fact, from my overview of the scene, I have never seen so many
    groups working together on projects, often disparate sectors of the
    field working together. I would hazard that this development is a
    first for North America, artists and industry working hand in hand
    in these ways. It bodes well for our field, and Ganoksin is a
    significant part of this. I hold that Ganoksin greased the wheels
    for it, that Orchid and Ganoksin have been in many ways the solvent
    for the barriers between groups in the field. 

    This combined with the demographic information presented as the
    final talk on the conference day is good. 

    summed up: there are about to be a lot of wealthy, peak age, jewelry
    buyers appearing, with a high around 2012 bigger than ever before in
    North American history. With the existing decrease in the number of
    jewelry stores this means that it is going to be a good time for
    jewelry in the next bit. 

best
Charles

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