[Jewelry making - Article 00878] - Re: [Orchid] Venting about "Designers"

[David L. Huffman]

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>     What are some of the mistakes you see 'pure designers' making that
>     prevent the design from becoming reality...?

Hi Craig;

    I tried to list some, but the list was becoming huge. You could write
    a book on this, but I think it would be more useful to write a book
    on good design, if anybody would read it. Fact is, design is so
    intrinsic and integrated into process that just as there are endless
    possibilities, there are endless considerations. Every piece of
    jewelry has a potential issue. This would make a good thread here. We
    could call it "good design". Here are some topics, perhaps we could
    take them on one at a time: 

    -- Wearability issues, if that's pertinent 
    -- Durability questions, again, if it's applicable 
    -- Choice of materials, are they appropriate to wearability,
        durability, method of manufacture? 
    -- Process of manufacture, is it possible to manufacture the design,
        how much technology should be resources and budgeted? 
    -- Scale issues, what happens to the design when it's done in actual
        size? 
    -- Cost, of materials and manufacture 
    -- Time, which could be problematic in terms of cost, or in terms of
        the marketing window, or both 
    -- Originality, is this a marketing issue or a copyright problem? 
    -- Formal design elements and their relationship to materials and
        manufacture 

    So, in short, I think that these represent categories under which
    there should be questions applied to a design, and any of these
    categories (and others) could be exemplified with cases of problems. 

David L. Huffman

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