Jewellery

Esmerize: A Love Of Jewellery In Pursuit Of Self-Expression

by Natalie Kimani|27 July 201827 July 2018|Features

It’s never too early to develop your personal sense of style. While we exist in an era that offers more variety and options than before, it’s also a time defined by mass production. Raise our hand if you’ve ever bought...

The Anti-Laws Part III: The Last 8 Luxury Marketing Rules

by Natalie Kimani|27 January 201826 January 2018|Business

There’s nothing normal or typical about luxury. They intentionally take it to an extreme that invokes desire and dreams. Part II of the anti-laws finally explained why luxury hides their price tags, gradually raise their prices and will never coax...

The Silk Road: Sally Dudmesh – The Symbolism of Jewellery

by Natalie Kimani|29 December 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

Our last post of the year takes us to The Souk in Karen, Nairobi. We walk past the art gallery, through a Wabi-Sabi café filled with books, to find an orange room filled with jewelleries rich in symbolism of different...

RAYA: Nigerian Jewellery Brand Making A Statement

by Natalie Kimani|23 December 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

It starts with a signature yellow box. An indication that this Lagos-based brand is the furthest thing from a wallflower. Ivie Omenai started Raya in 2014 when she noticed the lack of indigenous jewellery brands in Nigeria. Since then, she...

4 Things To Know About Cairo-based Jeweller Jude Benhalim

by Natalie Kimani|21 December 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

It all started with a project. Like Kenyan designer, Brian Kivuti, Jude Benhalim was sent down her design path by a requirement from her high school. Her task was to complete a creative design of her choice. Fascinated by jewellery,...

Why You ‘Wood’ Want Statement Structural Jewellery By Nyumbani Design

by Natalie Kimani|15 December 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

*It’s the weekend … we stand by the punny* In a sea of brass designs, you can’t miss the handmade creations from Nyumbani design. The Tanzanian-based jewellery brand not only makes a statement with its distinct paradigm, but also the...

DEAR RAE: The Sophisticated Jewellery & Journey of Karin Rae Matthee

by Natalie Kimani|11 December 201715 January 2018|Business, Fashion

What were you doing when you were 10 years old? Many little girls may have been playing with dolls or riding bikes. Karin Rae Matthee, who was born and brought up in Cape Town, was learning how to work with...

PICHULIK Pays Homage To The Natural With ‘HARVEST’

by Natalie Kimani|06 December 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

If you study the rhythm of life and nature, you will find that everything moves in cycles. Cape Town-based jewellery designer, Katherine-Mary Pichulik, decided to capture the power and meaning of this in her summer collection called ‘Harvest’. With the brand...

What DOES Contemporary Jewellery Mean Anyway?

by Natalie Kimani|04 December 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

‘How would you describe your style?’ As a designer, you’re probably going to hear that question throughout your career. Thankfully there are terms in jewellery lingo that can help summarize what category your work falls into. Some of these terms,...

So You Want To Be a Jewellery Designer? Read This.

by Natalie Kimani|20 November 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

There’s an enormous billion dollar industry out there that supports this highly specialised form of functional art. You’ve got the sketches and the talent … now what? How do you make that transition from dreamer to a jewellery designer that’s...

ELEMENTS OF JEWELLERY DESIGN: The Basic Units you need to Know

by Natalie Kimani|16 November 201715 January 2018|Design

The principles of jewellery design provided the rules that should essentially get your pieces noticed (and hopefully bought at full price). But now we’ll look at the ingredients you’d actually need to apply these rules to. Elements of design are...

Jewellery Design: It’s About the Principles

by Natalie Kimani|13 November 201715 January 2018|Design

“Jewellery has the power to be this one little thing that can make you feel unique,” Jennie Kwon. It’s for this reason that many of us will walk into a jewellery store and wait for the pieces to speak to...

The Jewel Series - The Designers Studio Kenya November to December 2017

Editor’s Note – The Jewel Series – Nov/Dec 2017

by The Designers Studio|09 November 201715 January 2018|Design, Fashion

Hello there! Here we are in November, with only 2 months to go before we welcome 2018. These next two months we want to delve a little deeper into jewellery. There is definitely more than meets the eye. Other than...

TDS DESIGNER FOCUS: URBAN ARTEFACTS

by Natalie Kimani|08 February 201713 February 2017|Africa Feature, Design

Nicola Hankey-Onyango had life’s magical trifecta in the bag: success, happiness and a fabulous lifestyle. But she wasn’t done blazing trails. After 15 years in marketing, she switched over into a career in fashion and launched her jewellery brand Urban...

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