[Jewelry making - Article 00073] - Re: [Orchid] What Is Jewelry Design?

[John Donivan]

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    I will say, first of all, that I am what many call "Factory Trained".
    Although I took a basic course in jewelry in college, it was more for
    fun. Which is to say, I am not from an academic background. Some
    thoughts about your question, though. First, I do not share the
    contemporary need to categorize everything. The music business is the
    worst offender, I think. I think the need for a pretentious title is
    related to that. I call myself what my old union classification was:
    a Jeweler. More to the point, though, is an example. Let's say that a
    customer wants a ring of some complexity made, it's all thought out,
    there's no design work to be done, just the making of it. You give it
    to two different jewelers, and when you get the two rings back, they
    will be of a completely different character, even if they are both to
    spec. That's because the makers are "designing" with every stroke of
    the file and every bend of the wire. The simplistic answer to your
    question is, "Every metalsmith is a jewelry designer." for that
    reason - it's the nuance - what many call "The Hand". There is also
    in this world true jewelry designers, people who sell renderings or
    work in the design departments of the big jewelry houses and such.
    Otherwise, like everything else in the 
    world, if it walks like a duck..........

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