Live Colorfully: The Key to Creating Powerful Jewelry
When you study how artists like interior designers, painters, architects, and clothing designers utilize color, you'll gain a sense of how various shades can be leveraged to inspire and elicit certain emotions. Color is such [...]
The Future of Jewelry is Bright: How Covid is changing the face of jewelry manufacturing for good
With the spread of the coronavirus, came a whirlwind of unanticipated implications for small and independent businesses. Along with the economic disruption, safety protocols designed to thwart the spread of [...]
Hand Sketching Is Making a Comeback
“No designer wants to be a copy of somebody else. Designing is the ability to authentically express your creative inner self.” – Jenine Lepera Izzi, Creative Director, New York Jewelry [...]
Bootstrapping Your Way to Success: Top 3 Secrets All Emerging Jewelry Designers Need to Know
Churning a yearly revenue of more than $1B, the global jewelry industry shows great promise. A love of the craft makes pursuing jewelry design as a career and exciting prospect. [...]
How to Stay Inspired as a Jewelry Designer
Has your muse let go of you completely? Each one of us knows how frustrating it is to stare at a blank screen or page when we sit to work. [...]
Top 5 Tips for Photographing Jewelry
Photographing jewelry, when done correctly, has the power to make hearts project from your viewers’ eyeballs like Pepé Le Pew. The small, detailed, shiny, and intricate design characteristics of jewelry [...]