Ruby Pixels Earrings by Nima Nazem Zomorodi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Jewelry Design Competition Category.
BronzeJewelry· 2021
Ruby Pixels Earrings
Client: Zomorrodi Jewelry Gallery
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Jewelry Category
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About Ruby Pixels Earrings
The design of the Ruby Pixels comes from the 80s video games and neon red lights in urban advertising, as well as inspiration from the mosaic arrangement of Islamic patterns in this design that is visible. The main challenge was to meet the market demand for jewelry in various forms of protective symbols, transforming the natural shapes to the organic ring with the same emotion, joining performance and aesthetics beside emotional connection between the earring and the user.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Ruby Pixels Earrings is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Ruby Pixels Earrings is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Ruby Pixels Earrings splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main inspiration behind this design comes from the visual language of early digital games, especially Tetris, combined with the rhythm and atmosphere of neon signs in Japanese cityscapes. The pixel-like structures, geometric forms, and flashing visual energy of these environments inspired me to translate a distinctly digital aesthetic into the language of fine jewelry.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
My main focus was to create a balance between a contemporary digital visual language and the refinement of fine jewelry. I wanted the pixel-like geometric structure and the large pear-shaped ruby to feel unexpected together, while still forming a coherent, elegant, and wearable piece.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
My future plan is to keep the original Ruby Pixels piece in the gallery as a distinctive work, while potentially exploring its pixel-inspired concept in other forms, such as rings, necklaces, or even a new collection.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The unique features of this earring is the originality of its design and two separate parts of it, the first part lying on the surface of the earlobe and flush with the ergonomic lines of the ear, and the lower part is a ruby piece with a teardrop cut. The suspended face hangs from the ear.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- (L) 44 mm * (W) 32 mm * (H) 4 mm
- Tags
- Ruby, Earing, Modern, Classic, Puzzle, Pixels
- Production Technology
- The upper part includes princess cut diamonds and rubies. The lower part includes tear-shaped ruby. The base material is 18K gold.
- Design Challenge
- The contrast of combining an unconventional and modern design of the earrings at the top with the classic design (teardrop-like hanging at the bottom) and creating a work with high visual dynamics has been the main challenge in this design.
- Research
- How the asymmetrical color arrangement of red and white jewelry on the upper part and also the difference in height of these stones and the use of common claws to mount them, ergonomic placement of the upper part of the ear and hanging tears-shaped stone at the bottom, all with many Prototypes and multiple trials were obtained.
- Inspiration
- The design of this earring is inspired by the turning on and off of light pixels on screens such as 80s video games (like Atari) on a black background or even neon red lights in urban advertising, as well as inspiration from the mosaic arrangement of Islamic patterns in this design that is visible.
- Project Duration
- The project has been designed and produced in Tehran, Iran in 2020.
- Operation Flow
- It visually remembers the start of the spring with an asymmetrically combination of white and pink blossoms. The asymmetrical and random variety of colors create excitement in a modern atmosphere that calms by leading to a big tear at the end of the earring.
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