Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Jewelry Design Goes to Mea Era Jewelry Set by Kaisu Tullinen
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Kaisu Tullinen for jewelry design
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COMO, Italy, April 14, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Mea Era Jewelry Set by Kaisu Tullinen, designed for Kaiku Koru, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Jewelry Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Mea Era Jewelry Set
Mea Era jewelry combines the inspiration of the Art Deco era style, enameling and stone settings making a modern distinctive handmade jewelry set for everyday use. The designed pattern is combined with the challenging plump effect enameling. The luxurious emerald color of enameling creates the atmosphere of the Art Deco style. In the middle of the pattern, the facets of the stones shine as a counterbalance to the round green shapes of the enameling. The ring frame has its own facets towards the enameled top, making an unusual ring frame.
About Kaisu Tullinen
Kaisu Tullinen is a accomplished jewelry designer from Finland. She designs and makes jewelry from silver and gold and uses enamelling and stone settings as decorative techniques. Her jewelry designs have placed in the finals in jewelry design competitions in Finland. She has Master's Degree in Arts and Culture and she uses her talents and education for communication, graphic and strategic design as well. She wants to contribute in preserving and promoting Finnish jewelry and jewelry design expertise. She is a member of board of Finnish Goldsmith Association and a member of The jewellery art association in Finland.
Award Record
This recognition makes Kaisu Tullinen a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Jewelry Design Award
The A' Jewelry Design Award is an international jewelry design competition recognizing good jewelry designs by best jewelry designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to jewelry designers, jewelry brands, jewelers and goldsmiths from all countries. Typical entries include rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. The awarded jewelry designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/jewelry
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/151848
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/151848
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!151848
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/345571
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.kaikukoru.net/en
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mea Era Jewelry Set
- Function
- Jewelry Set
- Category
- Jewelry Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Luxury and Fashion
- Colors
- Sky Blue, Rosy Brown, Tan, Light Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Kaiku Koru
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kaisu Tullinen
- Country
- Finland
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #151848
Credits
- Image Credits
- Main image: Ellina Noronen, Competition finalist-Mea Era, 2022 Optional; Visual RAMA, Mea Era -earrings, 2022 Optinal inage 2: Visual RAMA, Mea Era -ring, 2022 Optinal; Kaisu Tullinen, Mea Era -ring, 2022 Optional; Ellina Noronen, Competition finalist-Mea Era, 2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This jewelry set gets it inspiration from Art Deco and combines two decoration techniques enamelling and stone setting. The designer did not want to imitate Art Deco jewelry with Mea Era, but wanted to invent a modern jewelry design that draws from the style direction. In this jewelry set, the enameling has a plump effect, which makes the design distinctive. Making a plump effect in enamelling is challenging, just the right amount of enamel and just the right firing makes it durable.
- Inspiration
- The Mea Era jewelry set has its origins in my love for the style of the first half of the 20th century. I consider the era to be my own design-wise, which is also where the name of the jewelry set comes from, my era - Mea Era. Specifically the style of Art Deco and its features has been the inspiration for this set and which I wanted to combine with enameling and stone setting. The designed pattern, shape of the ring frame and emerald color makes the atmosphere of Art Deco but with modern twist.
- Research
- Main research for Mea Era was the production of durable enamel with "plump effect" and desired color. Most of the research was testing suitable color combinations. For this result I used combination of flux enamel and dark green enamel that were suitable for each other. If I would like to change the color, I would need to whole new series of tests to know what color combinations work as well as this.
- Challenge
- The hardest part was and still is the enameling. Vitreous enamels are somewhat unpredictable material. No matter how many years you work with enamels, you still learn every time you make a new piece of enameled jewelry. Enameling is difficult because it a glass compound, it might break and the colors might appear different from your designed ideas. You have to do several tests with colors and technology in order to achieve a durable result.
- Realization and Technology
- The silver pieces are made by casting and the ring sized for the right size if needed. The earrings are made from the same ring casting by sawing two similar parts for earrings. Earrings have studs soldered to the back side and if needed, a small ring soldered for hanging the silver bar with stones. The enamelling is made with two layers of enamel, first layer is the flux and second layer the emerald colored enamel. The stone are set last by hand engravers. The overall finish is polished silver.
- Operation and Interaction
- This jewelry set can used the same way than any other jewelry for daily use. Earrings have studs and normal back side piece to hold the earring in place.
- Project Duration and Location
- Designing Mea Era jewelry set started from a one sketch a day project in 2017-2018. From that visual diary this one sketch was selected for development and that ring became the first version of Mea Era. After visiting Art Deco district in Miami, USA in 2019 the inspiration for further developing of the ring took place. In 2022 the Mea Era set was developed, tested and finished and took part of the Jewelry of the year 2023 -competition in Finland. Mea Era was one of the finalist sets.
- Specifications
- Ring 21x10,5x21mm ring size 17,5 Earrings 10,5x9,5x2,5mm Longer earrings 10,5x42x2,5mm
- Keywords
- enamel jewelry, Art Deco inspired, handmade jewelry, jewelry with enamel and stones
