Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings by Shui Yee Chin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Jewelry Design Competition Category.
IronJewelry· 2020
Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings
Client: Shui Yee
A' Design Award Winner in Jewelry Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #100138The Design
About Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings
A unique arrangement of floral drop earrings presented in a 3D style. The floral designs stood out at all angles with the embedded stones lit up the earrings like lanterns. Also, 2 bars were added at the centre for balance. This design is suitable for both thread earrings or hook earrings. The floral design here was chosen as it resembles the very best of femininity.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
the idea came from a lantern i made with my dad during my childhood.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
designing a concept that could create a 3D feel, with the idea usable on any kind of patterns.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I would like to design more patterns using this concept.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to balancing aesthetics and functionality in the Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings through the addition of two central bars is remarkable - could you elaborate on how this structural element evolved during your design process?
I was studying the jewellery market, and did a little bit of observation , and noticed that the women’s earrings designs does not show a good overview of the charms and patterns. That prompts me to design a structural form using 2 central bars that could show the designs from the front and back. And in all directions.
The childhood memory of creating lanterns with your father beautifully translates into the luminous quality of the Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings - how did this personal experience influence your choice of stone placement and three-dimensional arrangement?
In my growing years, I have been making lanterns for Chinese New Years, until one day the lantern I made with my dad needed some modifications, where the flower patterns needed to be enhanced but still wanted to maintain the shape of the flower. To do that, we added 2 central bars so to show the flower patterns on all sides. I thought I can incorporate this to my design.
As someone who faced challenges in traditional drawing, how did your unique approach of creating paper prototypes shape the final design of the Floral SY Drop Thread Earrings, and what insights did this process reveal about translating vision into reality?
I can’t draw, which sort of hinders my creativity. I would first imagine how my final design would look like before carving it out from papers and piecing them together. My suppliers who i work with usually have good CAD design apps, which really helps immensely with translating my vision from paper into reality.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A unique arrangement of floral drop earrings presented in a 3D style. The floral designs stood out at all angles with the embedded stones lit up the earrings like lanterns. Also, 2 bars were added at the centre for balance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width: 1cm
Depth: 1cm
Height: 9cm - Tags
- Drop earrings, Thread earrings, 3D earrings, Flower earrings, Hook Earrings
- Production Technology
- 2 bars added at the centre for balance, item can be a floral swirl or any other shapes like leafs etc.
Image Stone used : Cubic Zirconia - Design Challenge
- I naturally do not have the gifts in drawings, I normally make my prototypes with papers, and try to illustrate as close as possible to the final envisioned product. The rest of the items details will have to be communicated with the manufacturer bit by bit.
- Research
- My main goal was to create a delicate piece that uplifts a woman's elegance, no matter if she's attending a function or at work, Simple yet elegant. Therefore, this design with flower petals was chosen. Due to limitation of funds, I could only realise this with Cubic Zirconias. However, I do believe I still maintained the same shining effects.
- Inspiration
- I personally love dangling earrings to begin with. I am hoping to set up my own online jewelry business with a range consisting only of my own signature pieces. Designs should be different from what the rest of the market has to offer and with a point of difference. As for Technical Inspiration, it had come from a lantern that i made with my dad during childhood.
- Project Duration
- Project started in 2019 finished around April 2019 in Melbourne
- Operation Flow
- Main purpose here is to show this earring is able to give off a 3D feel, earrings can be threading on the earhole (as in the photo) or on hook earrings. This design could also be manufactured with coloured stones. Pink, blue, green etc.
- Patents
- Design registration status: Registered
Country: Australia
IP number: 202011011
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