Jewelry design is an art of utilizing functional & architectural knowledge of materials like gold, precious and artificial stones and, silver, etc. to formulate and visualize design concepts as per the ensuing market & fashion trends, socio-culture trends, fabrication techniques, and understanding of customers, etc. He also must consider the design viability in crafting and wearing while visualizing concepts.
Eligibility Criteria for Jewellery Design:
For Graduation:
- A student who passes their 12th class from any stream from a recognized board becomes eligible for graduating in Jewellery Design.
- To take admission, eligible candidates must clear their entrance exam along with a group discussion and interview round.
Post-graduation level:
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- To be eligible for PG, students must secure their bachelor’s degree with 50% aggregate marks from any recognized university in an associated field. Students graduating in nonrelated discipline can also enroll if they showcase the mandatory skill set required for jewelry design.
- Eligible candidates will need to clear their entrance exam
- Following this they will have to pass both group discussion and personal interview round
- Basis the cutoff, the students are allowed to enroll for their masters.
Responsibilities:
- Interact, listen and understand client’s requirements and accordingly visualize distinct concepts and designs
- Sketch the designs for initial discussion and then utilize CAD and other drawing softwares etc. to transform your thoughts into designs that can be presented for client approvals. These approved CAD designs are then shared with the teams at the time of delegation of responsibilities.
- Identifying the right quality of materials and gems and other precious stones like rubies, diamonds and emeralds etc.
- Create jewellery framework so as to facilitate mounting of selected gems (stones) via drilling of metals.
- Creating decorative details via use of moulds followed by stamping and presswork
- Drawing, soldering and fabrication of patterns and other details on the metal surface
- Ensure proper polishing and finish
- Layering of base metal with precious metal utilizing Electro-plating
- Make sure that powdered glass is fused to metal by using enameling in a kiln. This is done to craft coloured patterns
- Welding so as to combine metal pieces
- Engraving
- Networking
- Attending and participating in various craft fairs and competitions
- Researching & analyzing to understand fashion & jewellery trends, customers, social & cultural fabric of the society etc.
Jewellery Designing Courses
While identifying the right college, the following points must be kept in mind:
- The curriculum must ensure exposure of the candidates to diverse modern and traditional art, craft and design practices including processes, techniques, tools, and technologies besides offering an understanding of different materials, thereby encouraging innovation.
- The college must boast of well equipped studio so that the students gain practical experience in mechanical and digital fabrication, besides knowledge about varied tools and design softwares.
- The program must ensure that students gain an understanding of global aesthetics, trends and styles.
- The curriculum must mentor the students with an understanding of approach to design brief methodically along with how technological, environmental, social, economic and political issues affect the art, industry and design world.
