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Cheers Brooch by YunHua Cheng

Cheers Brooch by YunHua Cheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Jewelry Design Competition Category.


BronzeJewelry· 2024

Cheers Brooch

by YunHua Cheng

Client: Jie Jing Jewelry

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Jewelry Category

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The Design

About Cheers Brooch

Cheers is a brooch shaped as a large wine glass that also contains smaller glasses of various shapes. The smaller glasses represent moments of celebration. Japanese akoya pearls represent the bubbles rising in the wine, and the pearls can swing freely. The brooch is made of 18K gold set with natural diamonds and akoya pearls. The back is also formed as a wine glass with flowing bubbles. Movable joints were carefully placed so that the brooch feels light and comfortable when worn. The design recalls happy moments shared with friends.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Cheers Brooch 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. Cheers Brooch 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. Cheers Brooch splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Interviews

Grand Interview

Your innovative integration of movement in the Cheers Brooch, particularly with the swinging pearl bubbles, creates a captivating dynamic element - could you elaborate on the technical challenges you faced in achieving this delicate balance between mobility and structural integrity?

When I asked the factory to move a string of bubbles, the factory was stumped, because we had to consider the firmness and whether it would collide with other parts when swinging, but later we discussed what kind of structure to use and which positions to swing and which positions not to swing, and successfully solved the above problems.

The Cheers Brooch beautifully captures celebratory moments through its metaphorical design elements - what inspired you to specifically choose the combination of wine glasses and pearl bubbles to represent these precious life milestones?

I think it was my husband's birthday last time. We invited my sister and brother-in-law to celebrate together. Of course, the celebration was inseparable from drinking. When we drank a toast, I felt wonderful when I saw the bubbles in the glass. I think pearls are made in water and round, which is very suitable for designing elements related to water, so there are Cheers behind them.

In developing the Cheers Brooch, how did your research into adult happiness and life's pressures influence your decision-making process regarding materials selection and symbolic elements?

Until adulthood, I found that many people's happiness is not to have a lot of money and benefits, but to pursue a simple life. This simplicity is reflected in lifestyle and dress, so in fact, Cheers is also very simple as a whole, with wine glasses and bubbles. We can easily imagine the scene of a toast when we see it. I chose 18K gold as the material of the wine glass. The wine glass with 18K gold is actually a reflection of life pressure and an element that suggests us to transform pressure. Because the metal wine glass will show everything around it, just like a mirror of life, and all the pressure is present in it, but how to turn pressure into motivation is what we need to explore and think about. As for why we choose pearls, because pearls are organic gems, they can be regarded as a living gem, and bubbles are our emotional elements. In this work, it expresses happiness. I think pearls can convey this emotion well, and AKOYA's unique pink halo looks like everyone's slightly drunk face.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The overall shape of this brooch is a large wine glass, which in turn has various shapes of shot glasses. The shot glasses represent every moment of celebration, and the akoya pearls represent the bubbles rising from the wine, a series of bubbles dancing as excitedly as those people raising their glasses. This is a soft, lightweight brooch with pearl bubbles that can swing. The back of the brooch is also a wine glass with bubbles flowing, as if you are drinking a glass at this moment.
Dimensions & Packaging
58mm*13mm*97mm
Production Technology
The brooch is made of 18K gold set with natural diamonds and Japanese akoya pearls. The early stage of the work through the computer version, and then to the late gold version of the positioning adjustment, the glass gives a person is a kind of stiff feeling, but in order to wear comfort, as well as the dynamic pearl bubble, the designer carefully designed different activity positions, so that the wearer feels light and comfortable.
Research
The responsibility that adults bear in today is really heavy. In addition to fierce competition in the workplace, they also have to be responsible for educating their children and caring for their parents. I realized that adult happiness is not easy to come by. So, what can I use to carry happiness with me? So I designed the Cheers brooch, which is a brooch that can stimulate emotions, It can load those happy cheers into it, reminding you of a happy life.
Inspiration
There are many happy moments in life, such as getting married, having a baby, getting promoted, etc. When people want to share happiness with their friends, they often choose to drink together. The inspiration of "Cheers" comes from the bubbles that come out of the glass when it is raised, and the bubbles that rise slowly seem to dance and enjoy the happiness as people do. Life will have ups and downs, but the designer hopes that when people get old and look back on the past, the happy memories will jump out first and make you smile.
Project Duration
This brooch was completed in September 2023 and exhibited at the Hong Kong Jewelry Exhibition in December 2023

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