Designing a Collection

In the previous three parts of my series on Designing a Jewelry Collection, I’ve talked about what a collection is, design principles, designing for your customer and the difference between being a designer and being and artist. For this final post, I wanted to talk to the designers of jewelry collections themselves. I asked a bunch of jewelry designers to share their thoughts and goals in their own words when designing jewelry for their customers. Here is what they so graciously shared with me.

“I am in the wonderful position that my design is inspired by my travel on the luxury ships that sell my collections. I am continually looking for unexpected texture, plays of light, and color on days we are in port. Last summer I began work on a Mediterranean collection that is based completely on the rich, but muted, colors of Cinque Terre and the sea around it.”