Desert Desire 耳环 by Yamile Salomon is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 珠宝设计 Competition Category.

银珠宝· 2022

Desert Desire 耳环

by Yamile Salomon

Client: Joy Color Design

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 珠宝 Category

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The Design

About Desert Desire 耳环

这些作品有一些特征可以区分并凸显平面设计的影响力。一是形状的标志性和三维视觉效果只能通过纹理和螺纹图案来实现。其次是每件手工作品的不完美之处。这些几何形状假定了准确性，但实际上并不具备。每条曲线和纹理都不同。它们不完美但独一无二，就像在自然界中一样，并探索仙人掌和蛇这两个世界的特殊性，使它们在一个系统中和谐共存。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Desert Desire 耳环是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Desert Desire 耳环将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Desert Desire 耳环是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: There are some characteristics that distinguish these pieces and highlight the influence of graphic design. The principles of logo design are incorporated into the jewelry, and the visual effect of three-dimensionality is achieved, only, through textures and thread patterns. The second is the imperfection of each handmade piece. These geometric shapes assume accuracy but do not have it. Each curve and texture are different. They are imperfectly unique, as in nature, and explore the peculiarity of two worlds – cacti and snakes –making them harmoniously coexist in a system.
Dimensions & Packaging: Material: Silver Clay (999 Fine Silver)
Snakes- Drop length: 69.85 mm Width: 38 mm
Cactus- Drop length: 69.85 mm Widht: 31.75 mm
Tags: earrings, snakes, cactus, silver
Production Technology: The prototype of each piece was made in cardboard, testing sizes and proportions until reaching the final dimensions. The pieces are made in Silver Clay with a purity of 999. Each piece is cut by an oversized template, as the metal clay in its final process reduces the size by approximately 10-15%. Once the shapes are cut and the textures are drawn, the metal clay is dried and torch firing. The pieces are polished manually and individually to finally add the details in the red thread.
Design Challenge: I was facing for the first time work with silver, which implied, besides the manual work on the new material, designing specifically for it and its requirements. The biggest challenge in the design was to bring these natural elements to the two-dimensional and maintain their volume, textures, and shapes at a visual level, and make both designs work well separately and together. The other challenge was the packaging design, which I designed specifically for these pieces, this had to be visually a preview of the pieces it contained, so it had to have the same bi-dimensional principles, the mix of textures, the volumetry, and the manual work, each envelope is folded and sewn by hand.
Research: Nature is imperfect and beautiful, unique in each of its elements, and it was this principle that inspired the silver handwork. Each piece is imperfectly unique. And just as in nature, finding the peculiarity of both worlds and making them harmoniously coexist, was the idea for the designs. Imperfect as our nature and unique as our being.
Inspiration: These were the first pieces I would make and design in metal and it was from this situation that the idea was born. If I faced new challenges, the 1st design had to symbolize them. The snakes as a symbol of change, adaptation and skill, elegance, and mysticism. The cactus came from the association of the theme and concepts, adaptation to extreme situations, inner strength, and persistence. Two elements of nature as a statement.
Project Duration: Litter Havana, Miami, September 2021 First ideas and drawings emerged, finalizing the production of the pieces and packaging in November 2021, to be presented in the Dec/Feb 2022 season at Flying Solo, NYC.
Operation Flow: Two different elements - snake and cactus - are two earring designs that, when combined, create a new possibility that is just as authentic and valid.
Team Members: Yamile Salomon
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Yamile Salomon, Desert Desire Silver Collection, 2022
Image #2: Photographer Osmany Torres, Desert Desire Silver Collection, 2021
Image #3: Photographer Osmany Torres, Desert Desire Silver Collection, 2021
Image #4: Photographer Osmany Torres, Desert Desire Silver Collection, 2021
Image #5: Photographer Yamile Salomon, Packaging Desert Desire Silver Collection, 2021