Contemporary Design

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1960s Hippie and Contemporary Bohemian jewellery 2

Aesthetic and Design 4

Materials used 7

Methods of manufacture/ technologies 9

Current and historical factors in contemporary design 10

References 13

List of Figure

Figure 1: Hippie design jewellery (Etsy 2013) 3

Figure 2: Tribal Bohemian (Jullies 2012) 4

Figure 3: 60’s Hippie jewellery (Pauline 2010) 5

Figure 4: 60’s Hippie jewellery (JewelryInsider 2009) 5

Figure 5: Tribal bohemian 2013 jewellery collection (Brown 2013) 6

Figure 6: Tribal bohemian 2013 jewellery collection (Brown 2013) 6

Figure 7: Hippies’ jewellery with stone materials (Shaw and Melunie 2013) 8

Figure 8: Bohemian jewellery with various types of materials (Nayem 2012) 9

Figure 9: Contemporary Bohemian jewellery at fashion in spring 2013 (Christina 2013) 11

Figure 10: Factors influence the product design (Ryan 2009) 12

Introduction

Jewellery design is always influenced by the times [ (Susan 1995) ]. It depicts many aspect of the cultural environment such as fashion, trends history, religion, aesthetic values, economic and politics at that era [ (Browne and Browne 2001) ]. Contemporary jewellery is “a type of practice that understood as the contemporary offspring of a craft-based design activity that finds its origin in medieval workshops” [ (Benjamin 2006) ]. Bohemian style jewellery is one of the important contemporary designs in 21st century inspired by India and the European “Bohemian” culture. It holds “Primitivistic,” folk and ethnic elements which are significant to contemporary jewellery design, for instance, large hoop earrings, bracelets with attached rings [ (Browne and Browne 2001) ]. On the other hand, hippie style jewellery inspired by non-western cultures is prominent trends and fashion prior to 1960s. There are two primary approaches during the late 1960s jewellery which is the sensitization of materials and the imbuing of content. The imbuing of...