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If you’re a designer, you know that feeling.

You’ve spent hours in the studio, pouring your skill and creativity into a new design, struggling to turn your vision into reality. Finally, you hold it in your hand—an innovative, finely crafted piece of jewelry that anyone would be proud to wear.…

Artists-in-Residence application is now online! Spend a year in the Great Smoky Mountains on Arrowmont's historic campus!

Each year, five artists are selected for the Program, which begins mid-June and continues through late May of the following year. The Program provides self-directed artists time,…

Ombré Gallery specializes in contemporary art jewelry by artists and metalsmiths across the United States and around the world. Our mission is to exhibit innovative works using both traditional and non-traditional materials, techniques and subjects,…

Textbook Freudian craft-slip: the Oedipal macrame.

(Photo: Floto + Warner; Dwell) #unhappyhipsters

- My new daily obsession: Checking in with the Unhappy Hipsters. True masters of the one-liner.…

What is good advice for how to deal with a client who refuses to pay for design work because of obviously false/irrational reasons?

The most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time, Mike Monteiro gives valuable advice on how to get paid for the work that you…

Five Artists Reflect on their Waning Powers. Paul Spooner, 1983

A Curious Turn, an exhibition by Crafts Council at Habitat, explores the resurgence in automata making over the last 30 years and features works by the leading makers of these amazing moving mechanical…

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Named by Time as one of the 100 most relevant creators of these times, Spanish artist-designer Jaime…

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Craftspeople In Their Own Words brings together 75 stories written by 70 craftspeople telling of their lives in the studio, on the road, or at American craft shows from the 1960s to the present. 

Covering a wide range of topics, from selling leather work at the Woodstock music festival in…

KXX - 3d printed sound rings from Michiel Cornelissen on Vimeo.

Shake to activate: KXX Sound Rings by Michiel Cornelissen are 3D printed with beads inside their hollow forms that rattle. Inspired by the traditional…

The Beyond Jewellery symposium coincides with flockOmania2, an exhibition and live performance event which crosses boundaries between jewellery and dance. Located within the field of contemporary art jewellery, this symposium explores the relationships between sculptural objects, the body and performance. In doing so,…

Downton Abbey is one of the most popular shows on television, and its authentic costumes and jewelry are part of its charm.

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Úna Burke is a multi-award winning Luxury Leather Accessories Designer and Artist.  Using traditional leather-working techniques in her distinctly complex constructions, Úna makes both seasonal fashion accessories collections and sculptural art pieces.  …

The worst thing that someone can do to a book is to never read it. This motivational mechanism aims to encourage reading as it requires to transfer books from the unread to the read shelf, in the same way that one thumbs through a book’s pages. The unread books are placed on a dropping shelf-platform that mimics the turning of a page. A single string…