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Another element of the California Design photos has to do with people. In the 1960s and 1970s artists such as Arline Fisch were working with large scale jewelry objects made to be worn on the body. Although conventionally-scaled jewelry—rings, bracelets and necklaces—were often photographed as isolated objects or in groups for the California Design catalogues, larger […]

B-SIDE FESTIVAL This year the organizers produced a map available at participating venues with event locations, opening times and short statements submitted by each participants. To start, we downloaded a stripped-down printable version of the map from the B-side blog, which, if you were lucky, functioned as a way to find a venue with a

Support your local jeweler badge, 2008 French jeweler, Art Jewelry Forum writer and proud papa Benjamin Lignel is the subject of an auction in Brussels this weekend.  The auction includes jewelry by Lignel and photographic work by Elene Usdin and Enrico Bartolucci. For more information click here. Get your Ben. “ For the very first time

Sieraad is a Dutch word commonly used for “jewelry”. Though it literally means “ornament” or “adornment”. SIERAAD: International Jewelry Art Fair’s goal is to adorn, but also to educate. This year SIERAAD is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The show began in 2001 with twenty-two artists showing on an indoor tennis court in Enschede. In 2011

Ted Noten Ted Noten’s training as a jewellery designer was at the Art Academy in Maastricht and at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He gained fame with his jewellery which includes transparent acrylic objects and handbags embedded with various things, like a pinch of cocaine, precious rings, a dead mouse with a tiny pearl necklace

dubh: dialogues in black exhibition installation The exhibition was curated by Brian Kennedy and presented by STUDIO practice, an “organization devoted to facilitate dialogue, build relationships and encourage interdisciplinary engagements between Irish Artists, Designers and Studio Makers and their international contemporaries.”  The exhibition is supported by Culture Ireland and Crafts Council of Ireland with the

From Minimal to Bling before installation, Society of Arts and Crafts Essentially it is a mini survey presenting the work of contemporary practitioners who we think are doing good and interesting work. With a number of fine art schools in the area, work in the exhibition has the possibility to become an extension of the

Anja Eichler, Mare, Shoulder sculpture, 2010, 12.5 x 18.5 x 22.7 cm, wrk glove, silk thread, steel Most people wouldn’t give a second look to the material that Anja Eichler is fondly referring to. In fact, this material is normally looked at for its function, not its aesthetic value. This elephant skin material she describes