My Design Process

The struggles, The fights and where I am now.

It didn't just happen over night, a process that took months to decipher and I am still in the process of seeing what it all could transpire to.

After many sleepless nights last year trying to figure out what it would be that I would be focusing on and how I would go about it. I had finally thought I knew what I wanted to do and exactly how I would go about it, I had this perfect idea about how it would all work out. 

But did it go that way? No, it went nothing according to plan (that's not necessarily a bad thing). After further research on my theme and what I aim to communicate, a slow development of a new and improved concept was surfacing.

My struggle however was far from over. I was stuck, a design block if you would call it that, my brain just could not go further then the geometric shapes from the crystal structures which at first easily lent hand to the concept, however those are not jewellery pieces, those are just shapes; no specific relevance to jewellery pieces. It is only after the model piece is manufactured that further designs transpire. 

I was however set back slightly by outsourced 3D printing companies not only for a quote or for production time, but for them to communicate back to inform me that the material does however have design limitations too. As I aim to write a dissertation proving that 3D printing materials such as resin and nylon can be viable for jewellery, this does propose as a limitation in my dissertation as well as a design limitation, and any further designs for pieces and components that need to be printed will have to take this limitation into consideration.

The struggle and fight continues..