All posts by Stephen Irvine

Has the Jewellery Industry gone CAD?

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CAD/CAM in Hand Made Jewellery

An introduction to CAD jewellery design for consumers - Jewellery occupies a unique place in consumer culture. No other wearable item has so much emotion and romance tied in with it. We like the idea of jewellery being forever, something unchanging. This way of thinking even spreads to the way we perceive jewellery being made—the archetypal hidden craftsman at his timeless wooden bench, forming gold with tools which haven’t changed in thousands of years.

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Jewellery Design – A new approach

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With the increased use of 3D Cad and Rapid Manufacture in Jewellery design nowadays we thought we’d share this insightful video by our team at LionSorbet presenting a simple walk-through of the Jewellery design process. Created for online retailer Diamond Rocks this lovely video provides a brief insight into Diamond Rocks’ modern approach to bespoke Jewellery design and manufacture. Oh and it features real sketching!! Which we love! Hope you enjoy. Turn up the volume and let us know your thoughts.
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Katherine Richmond – Jewellery Artist

Katherine Richmond - Jewellery Artist and Designer

Katherine’s current work explores the fragile relationship between people and objects, and the tensions between control and disorder. Katherine uses books to create wearable pieces that question traditional values associated to the permanence of our material surroundings, by embracing the beauty of the imperfect and incomplete. Katherine employs elements of chance into her making process making each piece completely unique. Read more…

The Lotus Blossoms late this summer!

Lotus Blossom Ring by Jeet Palavwala India

In his own words “Jeet Palavwala designs sophisticated dimensional jewellery that is like sculpture in precious metal and gems”. I became acquainted with Jeet as we share a passion for Jewellery design and the use of 3D CAD for both manufacture and presentation. I fell in love with the Lotus Blossom Range shown below which was celebrated as the winner of first international design competition organized by Gemvara. Read more…

One Pen to rule them all..

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Award winning designer and goldsmith, Jack Row, has launched his début collection of luxurious precious metal fountain pens at Harrods, the world’s most prestigious department store.

In addition, Jack Row has also secured global availability with Pianki , the USA world class internet luxury retailer, and with luxury writing instruments boutique La Couronne du Comte of the Netherlands.

The ‘Architect’ Collection of fountain pens and cufflinks are individually hand crafted in solid silver and gold and set with accents of precious sapphires and diamonds. Read more…

Brangelina gets engaged..

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This months exciting news is the announcement of Hollywood super couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s engagement. Sporting a $1m diamond engagement ring, designed by Brad and Jeweller Robert Procop the happy couple who have been together for 6 years announced the engagement in Hollywood earlier this month.

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