No matter, the material is irrespective for a designer while designing jewellery. Designers follow certain principles while composing a design. They often experiment with the most appealing pieces.
As customers, the mindset of choosing fine jewellery is often on the two ends of the spectrum – one for a personal requirement or the other for highly fashionable wear. Well-designed jewellery is a prized choice as they look and feel better, no matter what the style is if they complement their personality. Chaitanya V Cotha, Executive Director, C. Krishniah Chetty Group Of Jewellers, shares some insights on what goes behind the process of jewellery designing.
Designers process
Jewellery designing is a network of creative thoughts, revisited from amongst the collections from various archives and tapered down to fulfilling the two elements of balance – the visual and physical balance. The designers begin creating fashionable, innovative designs and a salon collection that caters to a niche segment. The inventive minds of tend to use materials and gems in innovative combinations, ensuring that every design element is detailed in-depth to provide a high standard of perfection and quality.
Here are some design tips followed for visual balance:
Create a visual treat with the flow of gems or that stops at various levels, creating a focal point.
Create a rhythm of darker to lighter elements with repetitive or related gems, with or without graduation of sizes and tones of colour, to make jewellery wearing more pleasurable for the occasion and complement their costume.
Apart from just the aesthetic look, the next most vital component of design considered is its physical balance. When single large design is asymmetrical, they are often balanced with equivalent elements of smaller designs to form a counterbalance from a weight perspective for better wearability.
A keen eye for technical detailing always makes jewellery well balanced. The sizes of hooks, the thickness of chain with regards to pendants, length of ear post, the thickness of ears stem, ring size, and lengths, to name a few.
Considering all the above criteria truncates into an exclusive piece of jewellery that stands on the two principles of harmony and unity. Therefore, each element is designed in proportion to other components. Sometimes with sufficient differentiation concerning its size, shape, colour, texture and metals, which create interest, with no element of designing being out of place or dominating others but building a relation well to one another and creating a sense of unity.
