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YOUR unusual jewelry design will Wow your clientsDesign your own outstanding and unusual jewelry. Your jewelry ideas will expand with the concepts found here. The sky is the limit! Much commercial jewelry responds to just one aspect of jewelry and that is to celebrate an event. It is usually ostentatious, impressive and expensive. You can try making unusual jewelry from cheap but eye-catching found objects!
Here you’ll find great ideas that transcend clichés through good design. Jewelry started out from found objects, look at the Nassarius shell beads, the oldest beads found on earth! Mankind first used shells, feathers and seeds as jewelry.
When and where did found object jewelry start?Art created from undisguised objects (found art or ready made art) started as early as Marcel Duchamp with his famous Fountain.
Although it challenged the academic disctinction between what art was and was not at the time, it gave artists a big shift on their own vision as part of a society. Unusual jewelry with innovative design began since the mid 1970´s. Pioneer jewelers then questioned the status quo of the jewelry trade and had the courage to defy a highly traditional field.
Unusual jewelry using acrylics, glass and found objects started to expand the realms of jewelry design. Fantastic exhibitions from the 1970s to the early 1990s greately influenced jeweler’s know-how. You can benefit very much from seeing their brilliant works. We’ll be showing some of these works of art here very soon. Examine ideas of conceptual art to raise your jewelry design creativity. Jewelry with found objectsShake up conventional thinking and start making unusual jewelry. People have a growing attraction for jewelry made with discarded or commonplace objects. You can start looking for interesting bits and pieces to create fabulous jewelry from things you find anywhere, anytime. The important fact here is to give your unusual jewelry a fresh and new expression, not just merely making a found object wearable. Your reinterpretation of the qualities inherent to the found object, your perceptions and values on its prior function and your new proposal is what gives your unusual jewelry character, sophistication and interest.
As Le Van (2005) says, “found object jewelers value the visual, tactile and symbolic appeal of an object”. Found object jewelry is an innovative and exciting aspect of jewelry design to pursue. Found objects give you endless design possibilities. Make unusual jewelry turning ordinary materials into spectacular wearable art.Here’s just a limited list of materials, take this list further with your imagination.Think about the wonderful possibilities you have:
Your unusual jewelry designs will shine with your own findings. Give your creativity a push by using found objects to boost your imagination.Open your eyes for the great things you’ll start to find!
It is a FREE monthly e-zine with all the latest info posted on Design-Unique-Handcrafted-Jewelry.com Read new articles about making wire jewelry, sea glass jewelry, broken china jewelry and lots more ideas. Go from Unusual Jewelry back to Design Ideas References used in this section: Codina (2005); Le Van (2005); Dormer & Turner (1985)
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By giving a new meaning to utilitarian or mundane objects artists pursued a new way of practicing their plastic creations. It gave artists a whole new realm where to pour their creativity.
