Research - Jewelry

Development research - Jewelry 

My concept idea behind jewelry is something that allows people either to be happy or something that extends there restrictions I.e. Wheelchairs, prosthetic legs or even something as simple as a music device of sorts. I would prefer to do something that makes people 'happy' because its something that I thrive as a person to create, a happy and enjoyable situation. My first idea was to take a look into the area behind Jewelry whether it be crowns, jewels themselves or pieces of jewelry. Obviously this is the task at hand but I wanted to see what came up as I wanted to see how far I could stretch the idea of jewelry before it became out of hand. This was one of the suggestions, although it's a fashion piece it really stretches the idea behind jewelry. This was something I wish to take over, especially the girl to the right, something that takes a hold of the face. 

The was one of the main factors for me choosing some ideas as I thought it was something that people would believe to make them either 'happy' or look 'beautiful'. Almost as if it's a mask feature but made to showcase the face not cover it. This lead me to look into masks and how they function, the main one I know of is ski masks used by the military to avoid materials flying at their faces.

This was the first item I came across which gave me the initial ideas of making some sort of mask/crown that would enhance the persons vision. I will make a few silhouettes and see how it turns out. I will continue to look into masks as a whole but enough research has been done and given me enough ideas to create some low-level concepts out of, if it's not enough I shall return to the drawing board.

Weiner, A. and Rutherford, C. (2015) Bijoux, Bijoux: Fall 2015 jewelry report. Available at: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/trends/g5636/fall-2015-jewelry-trend-report/ (Accessed: 19 November 2016).

Arthur, G. (2016) Philippines chooses Turkish NVGs - news - Shephard. Available at: https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/landwarfareintl/philippines-chooses-turkish-nvgs/ (Accessed: 19 November 2016).