Jewellery designing: Inspiring career opportunity for young aspirants
Career in jewellery designing in
India is a profitable career options for aspiring young designers. Jewellery
designing is an art of designing and making jewellery, stone cutting, engraving
and polishing etc. India is the biggest consumer of gold in the world.
Jewellery designing industry in India has been described as the fastest &
ever growing industry. For jewellery designing, there are various institutes
all over India which provide diploma courses after completing graduation in any
stream. Many institutes offer short-term courses after completing X or XII
standards.
Various types of courses would
give essential information on color coding schemes, polishing & finishing,
drawing techniques & ornament making and designing etc. The course duration
may vary from 3 months to 3 years. Jewellery designing Institutes are now using
computerized program like jewel cad, AutoCAD, Auto cam, etc. skills and
experience is more important than qualifications. Jewellery designers could
complete courses in various relevant subjects, for example: jewellery design,
designed metalwork and jewellery, jewellery and metal design, 3D design:
metals. If candidate can show talent in design skills and ideas, he may be able
to develop a career in jewellery design without a qualification. But to a
professional in designing jewellery does not need formal training. A
professional in any other field can take up jewellery designing workshops and
set up a business production house.
There is good career in jewellery
designing. As a jewellery designer, one can develop skills and keep up to
date with new trends and techniques by doing part-time courses in specialist
areas of the work. He can get details of these from the Jewellery and Allied
Trades Training Council. If he is employed by a company they may provide
in-house training. He can do a postgraduate course, such as an MA in Silver
smithing, Jewellery and Allied Crafts. Jewellery designers plan the style and
pattern of jewellery, silverware and other decorative metalwork products.
Jewellery designers prepare
sketches - by hand or on the computer - to conceptualize the design. After
consulting with the customer or the manufacturing team, designers fashion
detail drawings, a structural model, computer simulations, or a full-scale prototype.
Computer models allow superior effortlessness and flexibility in exploring a
number of design alternatives, thus reducing design costs and cutting the time
it takes to deliver a product to market. Designs are created on regular or
floral patterns and then generate forms by connecting different structures
together. The range of raw materials is exhaustive from economical and easily
available stuff like paper, wood, terracotta, jute, to highly priced Swarovski
crystals.
Designer can produce designs to
meet the requirements of a client (known as a 'brief' or commission) or for
general sale, produce designs which are then made by other staff, work as a
self-employed designer, designing and making jewellery, use a variety of crafts
to make jewellery, including, mounting, setting and polishing. There are no
specific personality traits for jewellery designers. One can learn everything
while getting trained. However, candidate needs a passion for the profession;
otherwise there is no way one can learn. A sense of design is imperative.
Precision and attention to detail are also equally important for a successful
jeweller. One should be very creative, imaginative and technically sound. It's
also important to have a working knowledge about manufacturing. One should be
well-versed with the fashion industry on the international front too.
Opportunities in Jewellery
designing:
Goldsmith: Goldsmith makes
jewellery for oneself or for someone else. He has the ability to make any
standard jewellery.
Fashion Jeweller: A fashion
Jeweller work area involves designing accessories and making jewellery for the
fashion industry.
Jewellery Designer: Jewellery
Designer work involves preparing sketches by hand or on the computer as per
specifications of the customers. He uses computer-aided design (CAD/CAM)
programmes to create designs.
Lapidary: Lapidary work involves
cutting precious stones, making them shine and carving gem material in them.
As a trainee in jewellery
designing, candidate can start with Rs.8, 000-Rs.10, 000 per month. In about a
year, his salary would be Rs.20, 000-Rs.30, 000 per month. With an experience
of around five years, one can earn about Rs.30, 000 –Rs.40, 000 per
month.
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