Everything You Need To Know Before Enrolling To Jewellery Design Course

Utilizing gems, precious & artificial stones, metals like platinum, gold, silver etc., a jewellery designer conceptualizes artistic jewellery designs. As per his business skills and understanding, he crafts jewellery either tailored to certain select audience or targeted at mass audience. A jeweller designer must possess functional & architectural knowledge of materials & fabrication techniques, must be in sync with ensuing fashion and market trends, must understand customers, their preferences, their likes & dislikes and socio-cultural factors etc. He should determine the design viability in terms of finance, manufacturing as well as marketability.

Eligibility Criteria:

Graduation:

• To be eligible for appearing in entrance test for admission to Jewellery Design course, aspirant must have cleared their 12^th class from a recognised board in any discipline.
• After clearing the entrance exam, eligible candidates must clear group discussion and interview round to seek admission to the Jewellery Design course

Post-graduation level: 

• To be eligible for appearing in entrance exam for PG, students must have secured 50% aggregate marks in their bachelor’s degree in an associated field from any recognized university. Students from non-related discipline can also join provided they possess the mandatory skill set essential for jewellery design.
• Eligible candidates must clear their entrance exam followed by group discussion and personal interview round 
• Basis the marks achieved in all three, the students are allowed admission.

Responsibilities 

• Communicate, listen, and comprehend client’s requirements and basis this develop unique concepts and design sketches
• Transform these design sketches into a presentable format utilizing drawing softwares like CAD etc. for client approvals. Once approved, these CAD designs can be used to collaborate & delegate responsibilities to teams from different departments.
• He Identifies the apt techniques as well as appropriate materials including artificial stones as well as precious stones like rubies, gems, diamonds and emeralds etc.
• He facilitates mounting of the designated gems (stones), jewellery framework is created
• Decorative details are crafted via use of moulds, which is then followed by stamping & presswork.
• Patterns and other details are drawn, soldered and fabricated on the metal surface
• He ensures proper finishing through polishing 
• He utilizes Electro-plating to ensure layering of base metal with precious metal
• To create coloured patterns, he fuses powdered glass with metal by using enameling in a kiln
• He also is involved in welding in order to join metal pieces
• Engraving 
• Networking 
• He attends different craft fairs and competitions so as to be in sync with current tastes along with improving his art  
• Evaluates, research & analyse customers & markets to understand fashion & jewellery trends. 

 Jewellery Designing Courses: Students should attend a college that equips them with the following:

• The curriculum must equip students with comprehensive knowledge about varied available materials, modern and traditional art, design & craft practices including tools, techniques, and technologies.
• The college must offer well-equipped studio thereby enabling students to practice & gain experience in use of various tools, mechanical and digital fabrication and utilization of different design softwares.  

• The course must build a comprehensive understanding of global aesthetics, styles & trends. 
• The program must mentor students with an understanding on ways to approach design brief methodically. Besides this, it should also build knowledge about how environmental, social, technological, economic and political factors impact industry as well as art and design world. 

Kenneth

Kenneth is a proud native of sydney, born and raised there. However, he pursued his education abroad and studied in Australia. Kenneth has worked as a journalist for almost a decade, making valuable contributions to prominent publications such as Yahoo News and The Verge. Currently, he serves as a journalist for The Hear Up, where he focuses on covering climate and science news. You can reach Kenneth at [email protected].