Design for Jewellery Makers

A clear, comprehensive and practical 'how-to' guide and resource for all aspects of designing jewellery. 

This book contains expert guidance on design and the design process, and includes step-by-step project briefs and themes for readers to use as a basis for developing their own ideas. It is suitable for all intermediate and professional jewellery makers, as well as those attending jewellery-making courses and who have taken up jewellery making as a hobby. 

The book explores the design process in depth, from fundamentals of jewellery design such as practical considerations to high-level conceptual briefs. Included within its pages are:

• Inspirational contributions from 12 contemporary jewellery designers. A chapter of the book shows how 6 of them apply the concepts in the book to their own practice
• 16 design techniques: a mix of drawing and model-making techniques including how to draw facetted gemstones, sketching, producing a technical drawing, paper models, mould-making and casting
• 5 technique-led projects: examples of how you can use basic jeweller’s skills together with the design techniques to create a specific type of jewellery. These include cutting out to make a band ring, press-forming for a brooch, and using repeated patterns for a necklace
• 8 process-led design projects show different creative approaches to the same challenge. For example 6 different ways of connecting links without soldering, or 12 different ways of setting a stone
• The book finishes with 10 open projects – briefs and finished inspirational examples for the reader to try out and learn from.

With expert guidance on design and the design process, this book includes step-by-step project briefs and themes to use as a basis for developing your own ideas. It's suitable for intermediate and professional levels, as well as those attending jewellery making courses who've taken up the craft as a hobby.

Design for Jewellery Makers covers the subject of jewellery design in a practical way. It encourages the reader to approach design as a fun, exploratory process helpful in finding ones own style and improving the outcomes of their making [...]

It would make an excellent addition to your library if you are simply curious about jewellery making and are hoping for some inspiration and motivation on getting started. This could also be for you if you want insights on how contemporary jewellery makers make the choices they do, where they turn to for ideas and the processes they take. 

Award-winning jewellery designer Louise Seijen ten Hoorn trained at the Zadkine College (formerly Vakschool Schoonhaven), The Netherlands and the Royal College of Art in the UK. She lives and works in London, where she creates one-off pieces, small production lines and commissions. Louise works predominantly in metal, as well as materials such as plastic, rope and rubber.

Her work has been exhibited in the UK as well as worldwide in the USA, Lithuania, Portugal and the Netherlands. Besides being a jewellery practitioner, Louise teaches short courses in design and jewellery making at various Adult Education Colleges in London.

Recent exhibitions and events
• How much is that doggy in the window, At Work Gallery, 2022
• The re-Incarnation of Andy Warhol, At Work Gallery, London, 2020
• Connections/Connessioni, ACJ Touring exhibition, various locations UK/Italy, 2019, 2020
• Tales of the subconscious, ACJ + Gill Wing Jewellery, London, 2019
• City Lit centenary exhibition, City Lit, London, 2019
• Van Gogh at work, At Work Gallery, London, 2019
• Tincal Lab challenge: Jewellery & Technology, Tincal Lab, Porto 2018
• I am my own muse, At Work Gallery, London, 2018
• Blinkered, At Work Gallery - Brunel Museum, London, 2018
• 20:20 Visions, ACJ Touring exhibition, various locations, UK, 2017, 2018
• Loot, Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2017

Selected awards
• Selected awards from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship & Design Council, 2021, 2019, 2016, 2008, 2007, 2006
• Goldsmith’s Fair graduate bursary, 2016
• London Jewellery Exports bursary, 2008
• Bright ideas award, awarded by Craft Central and sponsored by Deutsche Bank, 2007

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