Jewellery Design

Jewellery Design Brief

Jewellery brief - student version.doc

Resources

Sketch jewellery technique videos

Sketching rings video - Follow the instructions in this video to practice the skills being shown.

Drawing chains - Watch the video and try out the simple drawing techniques to create great visuals of chains and links.

Ta Moko

As part of your jewellery design brief you are to complete a designer study on the art of Kiri Tuhi (Maori Tattoo Art). Watch the following video for a brief Maori legend about the beginnings of Ta Moko before you get started on your study.

Then make yourself a copy of the Maori Tattoo Art Worksheet . The web-links to help you with research are at the top of the worksheet.

Moodboard example

jewellery_moodboard.pdf

Initial Ideas example

Examples

Past Student Examples

page 1

page 3

page 2

Final Design example.pdf

final design page

Analysing your designs

This document will give you some sentence starters to help you write good comments about your designs

Annotation starters - jewellery

Jewellery Knots

This link takes you to a tutorial to teach you how to tie different jewellery knots

Establishing your own tikanga elements

This link takes you to a worksheet to help you consider aspects of your own cultural identity and how these could be used in your design thinking

An Example of how a student wove their Family tikanga into their design

Jewellery Design

Writing your Refined Brief

This link will take your to the powerpoint about how to write a good refined brief

Ergonomic Data

- For rings, necklace, bracelet sizes click the following image link

Laser Settings for Jewellery Design

Laser Cutter Tutorials

Setting up and starting in illustrator.mp4

Creating your Design in Adobe Illustrator

This video shows the basics of how to create and edit your design in Adobe Illustrator

Creating the parts for cutting.mp4

Preparing your design for cutting parts in Illustrator

This video shows you how to prepare the individual parts for your jewellery design in Illustrator to get it ready for transfer to the laser cutter.

Transfering to Laserworks.mp4

Preparing for Laser Cutting

This video shows the basics of how to create and edit your design in Adobe Illustrator

This image is the one used in the task in the videos. Download it to complete the task.

How to draw your design for laser cutting

This powerpoint explains the process for drawing your product with 2D Design so that it can be printed with the laser cutter. Follow this process to minimise problems with your drawings

Making 2D designs for laser cutter

Laser Cutter HELP

This link will take you to some troubleshooting videos to help you work out what might be going wrong with the computer programs or the laser cutter

Assessment Schedule

assessment schedule 2017.doc

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