You need to go no further than Tom Binns when you want inspiration for ‘over the top design’. His mantra may be…MORE IS MORE…but his designs will tempt you to add one more layer or three dozen crystals…rather than one dozen.
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Kate Spade breaks elements down to the bare essentials…and it always works. The Double Exposure Necklace is a simple series of circles and slices…We Can Do This!!! Love the Florence Broadhurst Japanese floral pattern on the home page…
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Pantone has spoken and Tangerine Tango is the color of 2012…love the color combination of tangerine and purple from Adrienne Vittadini.
“Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it,” said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.”
“Over the past several years, orange has grown in popularity and acceptance among designers and consumers alike. A provocative attention-getter, Tangerine Tango is especially appealing in men’s and women’s fashion. Fashion designers featured in the PANTONE Fashion Color Report Spring 2012, including Tommy Hilfiger, Nanette Lepore, Cynthia Steffe by Shaun Kearney, Elie Tahari and Adrienne Vittadini, are incorporating this attractive orange into their spring collections. A fun, lively take on a traditional autumnal hue, Tangerine Tango will surely carry through to fall fashion as well.”
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As an artist, Gloria Askin, lives in a multi-tasking world…moving from painting…to polymer…to print making.
“Art,
always essential in my life.
Bold colors, intricately patterned
Enchanted the child (forever) in me.
Art
Everywhere,
adorning and expressing.”
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Sue Savage, like many artists, uses natures colors, textures and patterns as inspiration. “ Combining natural stones, pearls, hand made elements and fine-quality metals, the designs reflect unique natural beauty. Each design is produced only once at Sue’s studio in Southeast Alaska, so it is truly a personal expression through adornment.”
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Carol Martin’s jewelry includes kiln cast glass, precious metals and stones. The process is labor intensive, but Carol feels the unique shapes and colors are worth the effort. This excerpt from her bio could describe all of us…“Making things is as natural as breathing to me. I grew up in a family of Artisans and have always worked with my hands.”
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Namu Cho immigrated to the US from Korea to attend school at Bowling Green University in Ohio. He utilizes the ancient technique called Damascus steel that creates the high contrast between the dark background, the precious metals and gemstones of each piece. “The process of Damascus steel is a lamination fabrication technique that fuses alternating layers of iron and steel. The unrefined, spontaneous patterns created by the Damascus steel create a great sense of balance with his overall artistic vision.”
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Shana Astrachan continues our exploration of artists utilizing ‘repurposed’ materials. “Besides her love for metal, Astrachan loves experimenting with all sorts of materials. When asked what three materials she couldn’t live without, she sighs and says “I feel like there are a million.” Being open with new materials is what draws the artists to her unique designs. The jewelry maker adds that she loves the flexibility of mohair silk and the playfulness/fun of sequins.” Scroll through her site for jewelry made from sequins, felt, bottle caps, bag clips…the options are endless!!!
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Harriet Estel Berman uses post consumer materials to construct jewelry, teacups, even entire lawns. Her Identity Bead series “symbolizes our personal search for identity in our material culture. Bar codes and brand name material from post-consumer tin cans recycle our unconscious consumption of advertising, marketing, and possession as identification. In a society so transitory and hyper-marketed one may wonder who we really are, for how much of our own identity is derived from what we consume and why we consume it?”
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In our digital directional world we rarely use an ‘old fashioned’ paper map. Our vision is focused on moving from point A to Point B with as few distractions as possible. Anna Lindsay MacDonald focused on maps in a different manner. “My work with maps began as soon as I moved to Toronto. As I navigated the city I was struck by the grid-like quality of the Toronto streets, the intersections and interwoven connections. The imposing urban sprawl I reduced in size to a more legible scale, neighborhoods became bracelets and rings, adornment objects as well as informative objects. I wanted the wearer to engage with their neighborhoods, with transparent acrylic pieces wrapped around their hands and fingers like tattoos, their walking history etched into their skin. The gold and silver dotted paths or the walk to work became the adornment object.”
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