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The set of portfolio covers jewelry design and finished product, creative style, jewelry design of Chinese style, also a series of business jewelry design. All designs are with a brief textual description. They show the understanding and idea of mine in some aspects of jewelry design, moreover, fully release my passion for jewelry design.

Jewelry Design Portflio 2010-2014 Dylan Chow

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Designs and Finished Products / 02

Jewelry Products Design and Exhibition of Process Flow/ 09

Draft of Creative Types of Jewelry Design / 10

Draft of Jewelry Design with Chinese Traditional Element / 17

Commercial Jewelry Design Draft / 24

Epilogue / 37

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1.1. The design draft and finished product

The series is a part of university course assignments of mine, including a part of electronic design draft, hand-painted design draft and finished products with different styles. The basic process of design, processing photos and general instructions are

in the end of the chapter .

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Design description: The inspiration of this set of design comes from the leaves, cloud and rainy season in South China. The gentle modelling and soft colour bring the sense of gentle breeze and mild rain. The hanging drops of necklace, ring and hairpin are made of coloured metal. The collar part is made of hemp rope of manual characteristics. The

complete set of design highlights the theme of harmony between human and nature.

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Design description: The inspiration of this set of design comes from the curtain modelling in ancient Chinese palace. Traditional streamline grain brings classical beauty while sling chain of curtain form brings the feeling of elegance. All the materials are gold, which highlights the royal luxury.

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Design description: This set of design applies metal and large areas of combination of metal lines and geometry, cleverly outlines the mountains. Gems of different sizes and shapes are similar to the stars in the sky. The whole world is a geometry one and everything is full of graphics and fun. ‘Change complicated to brief’, is the full expression of this set of design.

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Design description: This set of works is a combining exploration of the industrial society and jewelry design field, integrating the elements of gear, tape measure and compass. The seemingly bizarre

combination enables people to think the beauty of modern industry thoroughly.

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Design description: The inspiration of this set of design comes from the different flying forms of butterfly. The streamline modelling on the fringes is full of dynamic, and the use of transparent resin material shows the lightsome feeling of butterfly.

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Design description: The inspiration of this set of design comes from the traditional Chinese New Year. The modelling of paper-cut and lanterns and traditional Chinese red have dense flavour of Spring Festival. This is a jewelry design with strong Chinese characteristic.

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•The production process starts from the electric drawing and hand-painted effect picture, and then to the metal plate. After getting the required shape of materials, I started to drill, grind and did a series of processing. Sometimes I used wire drawbench or tablet press to process material. I integrated the materials, organized them according to the design drawings, with welding and combining, polishing, I got the finished products. The surface may be attached some dirt that is hard to remove, I processed with alum heating.

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2. Draft of Creative Types of Jewelry Design

Draft of Creative Types of Jewelry Design Following works are drafts of creative types of jewelry design which includes regular jewelry three-piece, creative ring design, creative bracelet design and creative pendant design. This

kind of design has bold ideas throughout the series with bold colours, materials and shape. Boldness and creativeness is the soul of this series. Among design innovation, cultural innovation, material innovation, and process innovation, the

idea of function innovation goes through the whole design. 

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Design description: 1. The inspiration of this set of design comes from croissants, matching with inlaid coloured stones to express a sweet smell. 2.This is a work combining platinum, diamond and sapphire. The repeated use of modelling and simple colour send out a fashionable

breath. 

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Design description: 1. The Design inspiration is from chrysanthemum, but the modelling is exaggerated to bring more tension. Matching with all kinds of pearl diversifies the whole works.

2. The Design inspiration is from Chinese traditional arts and crafts — paper cutting. Through the combination of gold, it has more visual and stage effect. It is a set of works that is suitable for runway walk.

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Design description: 1. The Design inspiration is from the little cabin in forest. The work splits the roof and wall, and rebuilds to make it more funny. 2.The design is derived from the classic film ‘Black Swan’. The soft black feathers meet the hard platinum, showing the heroine’s

complex inner heart, sometimes mild and sometimes wild.

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Design description: 1. The design was inspired by the red brick wall outside my home. The plain modelling carries too many memories. 2.The design is derived from the threads of thoughts of adolescent girls, sometimes simple and sometimes confusing.

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Design description: 1. The design was inspired by a childhood dream which is aspiration to spread my wings and fly. This work is full of the colour of idealism.

2.The design inspiration is from the summer pond with large areas of lotus leaves and lotus. This work is suitable for women with classical temperament.

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Design description: The two sets of hanging drops design are from the lithe and graceful body of dancing woman. The first set of work has more abstract characteristics, and the second set of work is an aesthetic creation of a female who is doing rope exercise.

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3.3. Draft of Jewelry Design with Chinese Traditional

Element

The following works jewelry design series with the overall design thought of Chinese traditional culture. It has artistic characteristics of greatness and simpleness. The appearance has rich humanities connotation or moral lenovo, which

adheres to the concept of ‘form expresses emotion’, paying more attention to the expression of inner meaning rather than catering to visual sense. The adornment style is partial to complanation curve, but not sharp straight line. The material

gives priority to jade, gold, silver or pearl, but not to diamonds and crystal. Themes of plants and animals are frequently used, so gem is mostly used for plain texture and soft luster. Inlay is made with metal.

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Design description: 1. The modelling inspiration comes from the Chinese quintessence of blue and white porcelain, collocating with another Chinese element red line. The traditional Chinese style is obvious.

2.The design was inspired by the beautiful bamboo forest. Bamboo is a very important part of Chinese elements, which symbolizes gentleman and integrity. The work uses some skills in Chinese traditional painting to create.

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Design description: 1. The modelling inspiration comes from traditional modelling of Uighur. The overall modelling is similar to the specialty crystal grapes in Uighur areas, giving people an exotic feeling.

2. The design was inspired by red scarf and goldfish in fish tank of Chinese children. This is a set of work showing salute to childhood.

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Design description: 1. The design was inspired by open plum blossom in winter. In the cold withered winter only the plum blossom is in full bloom alone. This characteristic also implies the tenacious character of the wearer.

2.The design was inspired by South China scenery Hangzhou West Lake. Every summer, the lake is full of lotus. ‘Bridges river home’, this is the spiritual home that Chinese people yearns for.

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Design description: 1. The design was inspired by the ancient copper modelling. The modelling of copper is round outside but square inside, which symbolizes the Chinese philosophy of life for a long time.

2.The design was inspired by the ball made of strips of silk in Chinese traditional arts and crafts. The combination with the adornments in Buddha beads modelling, the work is full of classical temperament.

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Design description: 1. The design inspiration comes from the ancient Chinese myth character Chang E who lives on the moon alone, only accompanying by the osmanthus flowers.

2. The design was inspired by South China scenery Hangzhou West Lake. Every summer, the lake is full of lotus. ‘Bridges river home’, this is the spiritual home that Chinese people yearns for.

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Design description: The inspiration and modelling of the two sets of works are derived from the ancient Chinese lacquer decoration. This kind of grain usually has nice implied meaning, and expresses the wearer’s hope of being auspicious.

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4. Commercial Jewelry Design Draft

This series of works are business style, and the main consumer crowd positions in young consumers. Most of the materials are silver, K gold, leather materials, fiber materials and a small amount of coloured gems, which are inexpensive raw materials. The design style is concise and lively, revealing the characteristics of youth. The market positioning is fast

fashion jewelry (accessories).

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Design description: The source of inspiration of this set of works is the Christmas, including many elements like bell, snow, ribbon on the Christmas tree and so on. A variety of elements highlight the warm atmosphere of Christmas. The material of silver symbolizes the winter snow, which is concise and

sticking to the topic.

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Design description: This design is derived from the big or small love in adolescent girls’ hearts, which are seemingly clear but

actually unpredictable. The thin chain and small concise hanging pendant is very suitable for young female consumer

groups.

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Design description: This work is derived from the scenery of ‘rosy clouds chasing the moon’ in Chinese myth. It is rhythmic and connotative, which has a dense colour of literature and art in Chinese tradition.

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Design description: This design is derived from the big or small love in adolescent girls’ hearts, which are seemingly clear but actually

unpredictable. The thin chain and small concise hanging pendant is very suitable for young female consumer groups.

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Design description: This work is derived from the scenery of ‘rosy clouds chasing the moon’ in Chinese myth. It is rhythmic and connotative, which has a dense colour of literature and art in Chinese tradition.

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Design description: This set of design is an irregular bracelet with a strong sense of design. K gold material and coloured gems make it

high-key while the twist modelling make it more rhythmic, which is suitable for young people who wants to express his or her

individuality.

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Design description: The design of the three hanging pendants is derived from graceful women dancers. The lithe and graceful figure,

beautiful dancing make the work full of romanticism and sexy colour.

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Design description: This set of design is derived from loving couples. Their love embraces each other. The work expresses the hot and strong love between man and woman falling in

love.

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Design description: The design is derived from the small colourful lights hanging on the branches in holidays, which are full of child interest and joy. Because it also originates from last century, the

whole work has a flavour of returning to the ancients, and an extreme stage effect.

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Design description: This work is dual-use, either as a pendant or as a ring. The inspiration comes from the stars all over the

sky, which is very romantic.

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Design description: The inspiration of this set of design is from the alternation of day and night. It is a group of

jewelry for couples. The warm sun symbolizes the man while the feminine moonlight symbolizes the woman. This

is a design with both implied meaning and interestingness.

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Design description: The inspiration of this set of design is from the sunshine. The concise curves easily paint the image of sun with child interest. This is a set of jewelry

which is suitable for children wearer.

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Epilogue

Four years of systematic undergraduate study enables me to grow from a jewelry design enthusiast to a young designer who has a new understanding on the field of jewelry.

Jewelry design not only includes the personal aesthetic taste and expression of the designer, but also combines a comprehensive consideration that different jewelry types should be designed for different wearers. Through the designer’s own understanding, his or her design style is to express a genre of art characteristics of a nation, an era or a school on jewelry, representing different personalities, accomplishments to adapt to different occasions. Before jewelry design, one should firstly investigate and analysis on the wearers. Different people has different temperament and physical characteristics. The designer must design according to wearer’s age, occupation, shape, colour, temperament, also matching clothing so that the jewelry can accord with the requirement of personalized design. Jewelry designer also should pay attention to the clothing collocation according to the situation, season, and the wearer’s career and personality characteristics. Hence designers should integrate all aspects to consider the different situations of different individuals, and blend in own style to make the jewelry the representative of personality. In my understanding, only the perfect combination of those aspects can create truly individualized jewelries.

An excellent jewelry designer should possess rich imagination, creativity, understanding of market demand and jewelry production process, should also pay attention to self-cultivation and artistic improvement. Design not only requires perceptual creation, but also rational analysis and induction. A good idea needs to be guided and standardized by theory, or it will be not guaranteed. Without cultural content, design is merely formalistic.

My dream is to become an independent jewelry designer who understands the world’s advanced jewelry idea and culture, and sets up my own jewelry designer brand if applicable. Due to the gap between Chinese jewelry design industry and the one in developed countries, our processing technology and production equipment is relatively backward, which leads to the failure of realizing some drafts to finished products. I do have the ability and willingness to study in UK, the country with dense cultural atmosphere and mature development of jewelry design, in order to realize my long-existing dream. I ever had hesitation, shrinking, but more diligence and efforts. I insist on this winding road with knowing the inevitable loneliness. However, I cheer for myself since this is the choice from the heart of a young people born in the 1990’s. I believe that although the road is bumpy, the scenery on the roadside must be very fascinating! In the end, please accept my heartful thanks to the upcoming deliberation on my application by your prestigious admissions.

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