The field of design studies in jewelry art and design

One of the elements of jewelry art and design is creative ability and aesthetic skill. These two elements are mutually reinforcing. In addition to creative ability and art skills, but also includes jewelry designers on the nature of jewelry materials and structure of thinking and organization of visual space construction ability. The jewelry art design object for accurate positioning and as a starting point for the design, is another important factor in jewelry design jewelry design should emphasize the reality of the beauty of the **** sex, the pursuit of aesthetic **** Ming, due to the aesthetic psychology with social and cultural and lifestyle development of the changing nature of the jewelry design must be constantly innovated to keep pace with the needs of the times.

In fact, as long as the field of art is involved, will be faced with the choice of formalism and functionalism, any person engaged in the design work, if purely the pursuit of formalism or functionalism, may enter the dead end of the design career, it is difficult to get further development. The basic principle of jewelry commercial design is beautiful, practical and economic, and is located in the pursuit and guidance of fashion trends and the pursuit of profit, etc.; the principle of jewelry art design is beautiful and unique to the practicality of the design plan and economic considerations less located in the guidance of fashion trends and to meet the different needs of a few specific objects, etc.. Jewelry art design juice focus on the use of expression techniques, its design constraints are relatively simple, thus making the choice of means of expression

is more flexible and free of charge, its content mainly includes jewelry design objects, such as material, structure, shape, color, ornamentation, composition, and pattern composition, etc. These contents are derived from the designer's personal experience or occasional inspiration often with a strong personalized color.

Jewelry design in the field of art and the commercial field of different applications, jewelry art design as a branch of art design, and jewelry commercial design has produced a certain difference.

It must be clear that jewelry manufacturing can never be completely replaced by mechanical manufacturing because its manufacturing process involves delicate and complex handcrafts and individuality due to the simplicity of the beauty of the visual diversity of the modern people advocate individuality. Generally speaking, the general public prefers simplicity, sophistication, and perfection, which have become common elements in jewelry design as trends and seasons change. The delicate

structural treatment and use of materials, geometric approach and rational design fully reveals the modern style, allowing creativity and craftsmanship to shine through. Diamonds and precious metals can be perfectly used in jewelry design. Streamlined modeling, simple shape composition reflects the noble and exquisite diamond jewelry inner quality; clear, hard outline and solid precious metal, creating a futuristic jewelry design concise style, but also interpreted his spirituality. Transparent and clean diamonds and solid precious metals repeatedly reflect the concept of purity and cleanliness, making them more transcendent. The use of human visual difference and the so-called visual contradiction, in the plane composition, so that people for the graphic feeling than the actual graphic area to be larger or smaller; in the three-dimensional composition, the actual volume of the same graphic volume may feel the difference; and in the color composition, the color tendency to be more obvious and prominent. The above design rules, through the actual use of precious metals and diamond materials, due to the brightness of platinum, through the refraction of light to increase the side or inside (diamond backing) metal reflection, giving people a greater illusion. Therefore, two pieces of different styles of diamond jewelry, despite the weight of the diamond, cut the same, due to psychological factors affecting the different, the size of the diamond feel a significant difference.

From plane to three-dimensional modeling

Because of the diamond jewelry precious metal materials such as K gold, gold, platinum, etc. is relatively expensive, we can not be like outdoor sculpture as the production of physical space, often pressed into thin slices or hollowed out the back to reduce the weight. Such as metal sheet by bending, twisting, closing, welding, etc. can form the height of the staggered, virtual change of the void form (solid space or void space) composition, can also be combined with the entity itself. Metal sheet welded into a round body, square, cone and burin into the relief effect, etc., can be incorporated into the elements of diamond jewelry design. Jewelry art design has been a great development, showing colorful, very different styles, and efforts in the colorful world to find natural, simple and innocent media, in order to achieve the return of simplicity and expression of an eternal beauty of the artistic situation. Jewelry art designers will be personal emotional changes into their works, which undoubtedly brings artists and jewelry wearers closer to each other, making the beauty of the material, craftsmanship and artistic beauty of crystal can be highly harmonious and unified.

Artistically speaking, artistic beauty is the modern art jewelry aesthetic characteristics of the "soul" it is a comprehensive beauty. Is the artist in the aesthetic goal, aesthetic ideal and aesthetic practice requirements under the guidance of the jewelry space modeling, color matching, material combination, craftsmanship, functional use and spiritual connotations and other factors, in the aesthetic law of the high degree of unity of the aesthetic center is - "spiritual beauty! ". Cultural connotation and spiritual realm is also one of the marks that distinguish art jewelry from other kinds of jewelry. Measuring the value of a piece of art jewelry is not to look at the weight of the metal and gemstones, but its intrinsic artistic taste and unique artistic modeling as well as the new value concepts conveyed, from which point of view, art jewelry can even be detached from its traditional meaning, but as an independent, for the appreciation of the work of art.

This artistic beauty comes from the beauty of reality, but higher than the beauty of reality, its purpose is not to persuade, but to infect. Crystal jewelry is precisely the need to inherit the jade tradition on the basis of original crystal art jewelry with cultural personality. The traditional and classical elements are right in front of our eyes, which can be the plant patterns, the figures, the refined, smooth and simple lines of Ming furniture, the geometrical squares of the windows of the ancient houses, and even the decorative techniques of the Tang Dynasty highlighting the architectural structures. At the same time, we should have a modern concept of digitalization, with a dialectical approach to the combination of scrolling patterns and nano geometric circles, or crystal inlaid in the headdress of the large roof shape, which is really not a modern decoration.

Design-wise, jewelry art design is different from commercial jewelry design. The former in line with the high concentration of thinking, sublimation and combined into a memorial or symbolic meaning of the jewelry; the latter is to obtain profits to cater to the consumer market for the purpose of developing and designing jewelry. Crystal art jewelry design is currently the most common in the country to carve jewelry, designers through the ancient patterns, cultural inheritance to create a large number of works with auspicious symbols, common to "bat in the eye of the money" "dragon and phoenix" and other subjects carved from the pendant, ring, handle and so on. Pendants, rings, and hand-held jewelry are common, but most of these are designed with internal "wrappers" or "clever colors". For translucent pure crystal, especially crystal in the most unique yellow and purple, often used to polish the crystal into faceted various geometric shapes, so that the crystal's "gloss" and "luster" more sparkling brilliant, with K gold inlays made into jewelry.

Commercial jewelry design is most often used in this form, but there is still the existence of art jewelry, designers will be based on the dazzling golden yellow crystal qualities designed to "sun", "harvest", "autumn" and other themes. Theme: "Sun", "Harvest", "Golden Autumn", etc. Inside the package or non-transparent pure crystal in the mosaic jewelry design is most often borrowed from other jewelry design, and the second transformation. Or the use of "wrapped edge" "melon buckle" made of simple jewelry, the purpose is to reflect the internal crystal "style", in terms of the development of the current art of crystal jewelry, not only to show the modern concept of shape, but also highlight the jewelry. In terms of the current development of artistic crystal jewelry, not only can show the modern concept of modeling, but also highlight the traditional flavor of jewelry design is currently the most valuable artistic design. From the perspective of the jewelry audience, they often prefer jewelry "classical" and "traditional", for example: in the shape of abstract and minimalist jewelry surface with classical patterns to do decorative texture, to create the atmosphere of ancient and modern, or in the crystal of the simple original stone inlaid with precious diamonds, rubies and sapphires, etc., to create the atmosphere of ancient and modern. diamonds, rubies and sapphires, etc., to create a sense of feeling and visual difference. Composition in the design of the application

Composition is a modern concept of modeling, he studied the shape of the shape of the problem. The concept of "form" here includes two-dimensional plane "surface" and three-dimensional "form-body". Therefore, the study of form in compositional science has two aspects, namely, plane figure and three-dimensional form. At the same time, in order to make the shape more attractive, we also need to study the color, which plays an important role in the visual effect. Therefore, graphics, form and color constitute the three main aspects of the study of composition. Composition actually includes "plane", "three-dimensional" and "color" three composition content.

Plane composition is specializing in the study of plane modeling problems. It starts from the study of plane graphics and elements of picture composition, and through the analysis of plane modeling elements, after repeated composition tests, study of graphics and picture composition of the general law, to improve the ability of plane modeling. Three-dimensional composition is to analyze the elements of three-dimensional shapes from a variety of forms. From the texture of the form to the construction of three-dimensional forms, from the shaping of a single body to the spatial combination of forms, and materials, tools and techniques are analyzed and studied accordingly. With the flat

materials gradually constructed three-dimensional form, improve the ability to feel the three-dimensional space, the ability to recognize and creative thinking.

Color composition is the study of color laws. It is to study the phenomenon of color and its nature, color performance, color perception, color matching, color composition law as the main content. So the composition study is such as the shape of the shape of the material (because in the process of modeling, whether it is flat modeling, three-dimensional modeling or color treatment, must have the intervention of the material), the shape of the combination of the relationship between the shape of the expression of the technique, the performance of the color of the performance and other aspects of the content. Jewelry design is mainly a three-dimensional shape of the creation process, here is a brief introduction to the three-dimensional shape of the constituent elements (body, color and texture) and the composition of the form of jewelry design in the application.

The composition and method of body

Body is the extension of point, line and surface in three-dimensional space. According to the composition of the body of different ways to divide: by the extension of the composition of the line is called wire body, the extension of the composition of the body by the surface is called surface material body, by the body of self-change to get the new body is called block material body.

Wire body: the wire is characterized by its length, which is light, tense, and has a sense of extension and movement; in the process of forming a body of wire, the arrangement of lines and lines with different present positions can get different present structures, thus forming different senses such as interlacing, rhythm, hierarchy, and sense of stretching.

Wire including rigid wire rigid wire composition of the body in the way of frame structure, grid structure, monolithic modeling and so on. Monolithic modeling refers to a single rigid wire fixed one by one, to transform the body deformation. There are forms of launch, gradient, rotation, etc., and then staggered, overlapped and interspersed to form a variety of molding. The main point of modeling is to create a sense of order and rhythm through the up and down stacking of wires and the continuous development of front and back; and soft wires of two categories. Soft wires can be stretched and knotted to form a body. Knotting is the use of different knots to carry out modeling design, can be widely used in some non-metallic (silk, plastic, etc.) as the material of the jewelry design. China's traditional knotting art and some ethnic minority jewelry is actually the use of this form of composition to carry out artistic modeling. Modern jewelry craft metal materials are sometimes also used in the way of soft wire to modeling: such as gold wire woven necklaces, knotting the shape of the rope.

Face material body: face material body is composed of two-dimensional space plane. The surface material itself has a sense of expansion, fullness and lightness, and it can be bent, folded and other ways to form the body. In the process of modeling, it should be noted that the surface can be flat or curved, and the form of modeling can be repeated or gradual. Because jewelry is generally small, so the number of basic surfaces used for modeling should not be too much, so as not to appear cluttered and complicated, affecting the visual effect.

Block material body: the basic block material through deformation and recombination to get a new body. There are three ways of deformation, shape cutting and shape combination. This is often used in jewelry design, jewelry modeling is an important means of design.

The application of color in design

Color refers to the surface color of the material used in the design of the shape, including the original color and artificial treatment of color. In the current jewelry design, the precious metal materials are expressed in the material color, and K gold materials and other non-precious metal materials made of jewelry, the surface color is often treated artificially, according to the need to present a variety of colors. Modern jewelry consumption, people pursue a fashion, and thus the color of jewelry is also closely linked to fashion, colorful.

The embodiment of texture in jewelry design

The texture refers to the surface effect of the work, that is, the surface texture. It includes the texture of the material itself and artificial creation of texture effect, the creation of the method of superposition, molding, the shape (carving, corrosion, wrinkles, etc.) and four kinds of weaving. Artificial surface texture treatment to make the metal surface presents a rustic feeling, in jewelry design commonly used in the following methods to create different textures on the surface of the jewelry.

Polishing: Polishing machine is used to make the metal surface smooth, bright and dazzling.

Sandblasting: after polishing the jewelry with sandblasting machine will be quartz sand under the action of high-pressure gas high-speed blasting in the jewelry surface to form a matte effect, so that the jewelry surface is no longer dazzling and has a delicate, hazy, soft luster.

Drawing: using diamond sand on the surface of the jewelry for directional movement, so as to form fine metal stripes on the metal surface, with a silky luster. Selection of original design elements

Design is a creative process, which is to analyze, deform, divide or combine the original design elements to get a shape that can reflect the designer's thoughts. This process consists of two steps: the selection of the original design elements and the evolution from the original design elements to the final design. Design comes from life, and the original design elements come from the objects recorded (sketched) by the designer during the process of observing life, including people, animals, plants, architecture, art and so on. These objects are rich in culture, from history to modernity to the future, from Chinese to Western. Designer's sketching of objects is different from general art painting, which focuses on the characteristics, structure and regularity of things rather than texture, light and shadow, and color. For example, to observe the structure, one has to look carefully at the various parts of the object and what are the characteristics of the way each part is articulated. Observation of the internal organization of the object, such as anatomical sketching, can also be found in the beauty of the modeling elements, will be inspired by the design modeling. The observation and selection of shapes from different angles can enhance the ability and means of selecting design elements. Primitive design elements After various forms of evolution eventually get the design modeling. Generally speaking, there are three main methods: deformation, combination of shapes and division of shapes.

The application of deformation in jewelry design

Deformation can give the shape a sense of life and a human touch (Fig. 26, 27). Specific methods include:

1, twisting to make the form soft and dynamic

2, expansion to show the resistance of the internal force to the external force, elasticity and a sense of life

3, tilting to make the basic form at a certain angle to the horizontal direction, showing tilted surfaces, resulting in a sense of instability, and to achieve the purpose of lively

4, coiled The basic form coiled changes in a particular direction to present a dynamic The basic form is coiled in a particular direction to present a certain dynamic.

Shape combination in jewelry design application of shape combination is also known as the law of addition. Refers to the combination of more than two basic forms into a new three-dimensional shape. Combination of many forms, there are symmetry, repetition, gradual change, mutation, contrast, harmony and so on. The application of the law of addition allows a simple structural element to evolve into a complex, emotionally rich design.

The application of form segmentation in jewelry design Form segmentation, also known as the law of subtraction, refers to the segmentation of the basic form to form a new shape. The face (line) can be straight or curved; the direction of cutting can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal or roundabout. The value of segmentation is to recognize and change the existing space, to get the required space modeling and visual effects in line with the beauty.

Design evolution considerations

Design to reject mediocrity as a designer, the most important thing to focus on is the spirit of innovation, to have a sense of rejection of mediocrity.

To avoid the homogenization of jewelry theme modeling elements. Although the jewelry design can be used to express the pattern modeling is limited, but this limited is the test of the designer to re-create the merit, to be able to sublimate the limited resources. At the same time to create a new belong to their own soul under the premise of a deep understanding of social culture and public psychology.

Avoid homogenization of expression. Taking from the same sketching material, the modeling elements of the extracted design are completely different. This is to train your own observation and evolutionary skills. For example, if you look at different parts of an apple tree's flower buds from different angles, their shapes and structures will be different, and you can extract them according to your needs and express them skillfully with materials and colors. Sometimes we just look for beauty in nature, such as the slender symmetry of a peacock's feather, instead of using it directly as a modeling element.

More analysis of the design evolution process of good jewelry design works, to summarize, to provide inspiration for their own design evolution. But don't just imitate, be good at thinking from a different angle, dare to break through the routine, looking for new ways of expression.

Patterns in jewelry design

There are many kinds of patterns, including animal patterns, character patterns, floral patterns, decorative patterns, geometric patterns and so on. All these patterns can form various design shapes after evolution.

To skillfully use these patterns, the first thing to do is to have a sample of these patterns in mind. How to get these patterns? This can be achieved through observation and understanding of the relevant areas of life (such as architecture, paper-cutting, embroidery, wood carving, stone carving, brick carving, printing and dyeing, painting, etc.), through a large number of copies of the various patterns, a large number of sketches of natural forms to achieve the goal of proficiency.

A variety of different patterns often imply different semantics. For example, dragons and phoenixes in animal patterns symbolize good luck, peonies in flower patterns symbolize wealth, plum blossoms symbolize hardship and tenacity, the youth symbolizes eternity, and olive branches symbolize peace and equality. And various auspicious cloud patterns, water wave patterns, Ruyi patterns, etc. are typical decorative patterns, appearing in large quantities in architecture and other related artistic shapes, and are also applied to jewelry patterns.

Geometric pattern is composed of points, lines, surfaces, "shape", although not reflecting the specific things and meanings, but because of its harmony of the beauty of the people to produce visual comfort, in the spirit of the aesthetic effect on the eyes, this harmony is manifested in many ways, such as the ratio of the golden section of the golden section of the ratio of 1:1.618, online known as the golden section, in the formation of the golden rectangle. Golden section, in the formation of the golden rectangle. In the European Renaissance, buildings and handicrafts almost everywhere used this ratio. Another example is the tower-shaped geometric pattern with rhythmic beauty. Geometric pattern is an abstract art language. Many geometric patterns evolved and simplified from figurative. Jewelry art design is the same source of sub arts and crafts design with the market and the design of the needs of the object is gradually differentiated between the two types of jewelry design way to produce many differences such as the principle of design juice and positioning design procedures, design juice content and expression, but at the same time still maintains a lot of planted from the art of *** sex in the pursuit of their own development in the process of gradual improvement in the development of the development of the continuous mutual reference and promotion will be the direction of the development of future jewelry design. Jewelry design development direction.

For people engaged in jewelry art design, in the clear jewelry commercial design and jewelry art design of the differences and links between the premise, and constantly learn different areas of artistic composition and expression techniques to learn advanced design means, and make it become an important element to promote their own design means to continue to expand the 21st century will make the level of jewelry design to get a fundamental leap so that the high level of the jewelry design to become the driving force of the jewelry industry. Jewelry design has become an important driving force to promote the jewelry industry to prosperity. Jewelry design requires designers to have a high level of comprehensive quality, China in this regard started late professionals are still few. We all agree that the establishment of such an organization aims to cultivate more talents to improve the level of domestic jewelry design to bring China's jewelry market into a new era. The formation of jewelry art design style, is a different era of thinking and regional characteristics, through the creation of ideas and performance, and gradually developed into a representative form of jewelry art design. The form of a typical style is usually closely related to the local human factors and natural conditions, and needs to have the creation of the conception and modeling characteristics. Formation of the external and internal factors of style. Although the style is expressed in the form, but the style has a profound connotation of art, culture, social development, etc.; from this deep meaning, the style does not stay or equal to the form.

The style of jewelry art design can be mainly divided into: traditional style, modern style, and mixed style.

Traditional style

Traditional style of the interior, refers to the historical and cultural characteristics of the interior style. Generally relative to modernismism. Emphasize the inheritance of history and culture, the continuation of humanistic characteristics. Traditional style is often referred to as Chinese style, European style, Islamic style, Mediterranean style. The same traditional style in different periods, regions and their characteristics are not exactly the same. Such as European style is also divided into: Gothic style, Baroque style, classicism style, French Baroque, British Baroque, etc.; Ming and Qing styles, Sui and Tang styles, Hui style, Western Sichuan style.

Modern style

The modernist style. Modern style originated from the Bauhaus school established in 1919, emphasizing the breakthrough of old traditions and the creation of new buildings, attaching importance to functionality and spatial organization, paying attention to the formal beauty of the structural composition itself, simple styling, opposing redundant decorations, advocating a reasonable compositional process, respecting the performance of the materials, paying attention to the texture of the materials themselves and the color of the configuration of the effect of the development of non-traditional layout based on the function of asymmetrical compositional techniques, which is based on the functional layout. It has developed the non-traditional asymmetrical compositional techniques based on functional layout. Emphasis on the actual craft operation, emphasizing the link between design and industrial production.