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Module 5 - Advanced Production Processes (JEW 5035)

Project 1 - CAD Cocktail Ring

"For this section of the brief you will be working on a live project with Weston Beamor. The brief requires that you design a Cocktail Ring around an existing stone using the CAD software, Rhino 5.0. Your stones will be supplied by the University and will be allocated by lucky dip, to create a real-world customer-led scenario. The stones will be of calibrated sizes and shapes to ensure they can be easily sourced by Weston Beamor. Your designs should utilise platinum or 18ct white, yellow or red gold and be finger size L/M.
Use your stones to initiate your design development process and produce a design which complements the stone you have selected. Consider the colour and shape of the stone to produce a complimentary outcome.

Judging
This live project offers the opportunity to work alongside a commercial enterprise in the form of a competition. Whilst Weston Beamor would like the ring to be designed with manufacture in mind, i.e. suitable for multiple production (it must be mouldable), the winning designs will be selected for their creative interpretation of the brief and not for a design that merges into the existing company range."

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Our first module of year 2!  Very exciting.
Well, no, not really.  This is the project I've been dreading, as computer work causes me a lot of pain.  20 years spent hunched over a keyboard has left me with chronic back, shoulder, neck, arm and hand problems.  I'm not looking forward to this.

Anyway, on the left is a photo of the "gemstones" we were randomly assigned (well, there was a bit of swapsies going on).
And below is my research into cocktail rings.  Generally big and bling.  I'm not sure our pathetic stones are going to cut it really.
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What was not mentioned in the brief, is that one of our holiday projects is to provide the starting point for our design.
Among other things, we had to create a board on Pinterest entitled "a place or tradition".

I chose the British maypole tradition.  In hindsight, this may have been a bad choice. 
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This is my local permanent maypole at the appropriately named Paganhill, near Stroud.
It has it's own website, which contains some good information about the maypole tradition.
And this is pretty much the only piece of maypole jewellery I can find anywhere online.
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