Argent Joieria · 2023
Reflection Arracades
by Mandy Morris
- A' Design Award d'Argent 2023 in Joieria
- CLIENT: Werk bytcjdesigns
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 45,725
- Verification code AABB334BA4 · Verify this award
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About Reflection Arracades
Reflection és un parell d'arracades asimètriques fetes amb or blanc de 18 quirats reutilitzat. L'or s'estira en forma de fil per formar el cos de l'arracada principal. L'arracada esquerra, més gran, s'enganxa al voltant de l'orella, mentre que l'arracada dreta és un petit botó. Una secció penjant separada es pot fixar a qualsevol de les dues arracades o inserir-se en una cadena i portar-se com a penjoll. Els safirs i els diamants estan encastats a gra i encastats en bisell a mà. El disseny s'inspira en un ocell que contempla el seu propi reflex a l'aigua, i en el contrast entre el costat que es mostra i el costat que es manté ocult.
About the A' Design Award d'Argent
Reflection Arracades és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent, un reconeixement extraordinàriament prestigiós concedit a dissenys d'alta gamma, esplèndids i impressionants. Els guanyadors d'Argent són obres tremendament brillants i summament creatives que il·lustren la perícia, el talent i la perspicàcia excepcionals dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Reflection Arracades sigui una obra meravellosa i de gran lluïment, remarcablement professional i profundament innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent és un invent molt notable i admirat que beneficia i fa avançar els límits de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia. Reflection Arracades és una creació molt envejada que evoca desitjos, introdueix sentiments positius i desperta sorpresa i admiració.
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- Unique Properties
- These one of a kind earrings feature an asymmetric design with a drop section that can be added to left the left or right earring or removed and worn as a pendant
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Left side Height 60mm width 40mm depth 12mm.
Right side Height 15mm width 11mm depth 7mm
Drop attachment height 35mm width 9mm depth 5mm - Tags
- Reflection earrings, GCDC awards2022, Werk jewellers ,awards
- Production Technology
- Repurposed 18ct white gold drawn into metal wire to form body of main earring ,Hand crafted , laser welding. Hand finishing, grain set and bezel set sapphires and diamonds , polishing.
- Design Challenge
- Production possibilities with gemstone availability.The wire drawing and formation and balance of the earring in ear.
- Research
- Following my initial image of bird on a branch viewing reflection I spent time researching bird image and reflection in water and how what’s seen is it a mirror image . I spent days re sketching the image to its basic wire form and from their transformed the initial shape using cad cam and by stretching the shape it took on a hook shape which inspired the hook design around the ear with the reflection part progression to a removable drop .Methods included sketching, layout tracing , hand rendering and cad cam with the making using hand craftsmanship.
- Inspiration
- Originally based on a bird viewing its own reflection in the water
we do not always see the perfect reflection of ourselves.
I wanted to design based on the the side we show and the side we keep hidden.The right earring is flamboyant were the left is more subtle - Project Duration
- The project started in October 2021 in York finished in February 2022 in York and was exhibited in London March 2022.
- Operation Flow
- The object can be handled easily with the left earring that hooks easily around the ear and with a right hand stud fitted easily with pin through eat .The drop section can easily hook on to either earring or slide on to a chain and worn as a necklace.
