Daniela-Designed Catalogue

Daniela-Designed

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Piece name	Photo link	Price
Design-Indaba Range
Watering Can	Click here	R 1 600
Pot Plant	Click here	R 1 350
Leafy bangle	Click here	R 800
Leafy dropping necklace	Click here	R 1 600
Silver spoon (1 limited edition only)	Click here	R870
Leaf bangle with jump rings	Click here	R 550
Plain leaf bangle	Click here	R 450
Leafy string necklace	Click here	R 930
Leafy string bangle	Click here	R 600
Leafy bush rings	Click here	R 500
Single silver leaf ring	Click here	R 280
Leaf-link bracelet	Click here	R 700
Leaf-link neckpiece	Click here	R 1 200
2-silver-leaf earrings (pair)	Click here	R320
3-silver-leaf earrings (pair)	Click here	R 400
Leafy bunch earrings (pair)	Click here	R 180
Single leaf studs (pair)	Click here	R 120
Single leaf earrings (pair)	Click here Option 2	R 180 R 130
Fine silver leaf shape earrings (pair)	Click here	R 130
Copper enamel leaf earrings (pair)	Click here	R 160
Other
Blue-enamelled disk pendant	Click here	R 540
Cones ring	Click here	R 450
Foliage earrings (pair)	Click here	R 350
Peacock neckpiece	Click here	R 1 100
Peacock earrings (pair)	Click here	R 220
Peacock rings	Click here	R 220
Red Indian leaf neckpiece	Click here	R 1 100

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Ready, set, let's go! A glimpse at the d-d Design Indaba range on show this week in CTN

After a hectic month of preparation for Design Indaba I can almost say I am ready. But ready or not, I am excited for this expo cause it's the first time I'm really ever going to be exhibiting for a large public audience. Just gotta put the final touches to my display then haul it all down to the Mother City for art lovers to check out. 

I am double-excited about this adventure because it is also the first time I will ever be in Cape Town!! Whoo hoo! So, despite the fact that there's work to be done, I will be sure to get in a few of the sights and sounds and maybe even a little party or two...

Hope to see you there. And if you are not going to be in CTN then you can check out my online catalogue HERE.

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Dee
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AWARENESS piece. A wearable piece, stand alone, brand

I really enjoyed the whole process of designing and manufacturing this piece, mostly because I didn’t have any specifics to follow - I threw the vernier out and just manufactured as I went. I find this a very rewarding way to work as nothing is too planned and in the end you come out with something that seems like a surprise.

Following in toe with my leafy earrings I wanted to continue with the organic theme. I kept my design and metal surface relatively plain and simple as I thought it would take away from the plant if I didn’t, the plant is the main focus of this piece.

This pot plant makes me really happy, and although it is not fully wearable, if it was to be worn, the wearer would have to be ever conscious of the fact that there is a plant with soil on their finger.

This makes the ring a mindful piece of jewellery, I like this idea. I would maybe like to make a sister to this piece that would be even more mindful, by creating a big pot with three finger holes.

Wearing this ring would be restrictive to the hand - a taste of our own medicine and reminder of how we feel we have the right to cut down trees and plants and then restrict them to grow only where suits us e.g. parks and nature reserves. Making the rest a concrete jungle.

From this piece I would definitely like to create an entire range of more wearable items.

I have received positive feedback, now just to leave it on the windowsill to get sun and love, and hope that my plant (and concept) grows.

Emotional piece

For this piece of jewellery I wanted to portray feelings of happiness joy and fulfilment. I therefore thought back to a time when I felt particularly happy which was living in Underberg. Part of what made this time special to me was the beauty surrounding me and the 3 hrs of yoga I did daily.

This was significant as it taught me a lot about myself and the life style I want to pursue. The yoga allowed me to relate it back to Indian designs as they aesthetically appeal to me. As well as the bright strong colour.

The technique I used is piercing as I feel it somehow is able portray a certain amount of depth whilst been decorative and effective. I also used enamel as I wanted to show the bright happiness that I felt at this time.

I would definitely like to expand on this piece by putting more time and thought into it as I believe with that it could be really beautiful. I think it is successful in showing the emotions I felt. I learnt about setting issues and a bit about enamelling, but most importantly I think that with every piece of jewellery I learn how to look at life from a different perspective and it allows me to put time and thought into aspects of life that I appreciate, as well as learning something new about myself each time, that’s what’s most important to me.

The feedback I received was overall positive, I think, and helped me to try and become more decorative. I am excited to make a beautiful chain for this pendant to finish the piece off.

“Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do”

I interpreted my quote in a directly personal way, by literally making the things I love; plants. I looked at different types of foliage that I find beautiful as well as looking at the positive and negative shapes that they made.

I used piercing, chasing, forging and blackening to get different textures and shapes of the different leaves, the blackening was to emphasis the positive and negative shapes and to make “shadows” as leaves do naturally when layered. These earrings make me feel happy and I like the way they jingle, and the fact that each earring is different - unique - yet clearly belonging as a pair.

While making this piece I learned that layering metal to look natural isn’t as easy as layering organic materials. I also learned about the different names of different shaped leaves. If I was to make this piece again I would make the individual elements smaller, so there could be more of them and I would attach them differently to make the back of the earring more beautiful. The making of this piece reinforced in myself that I want to carry on making “organic” pieces... it gives me most pleasure :)

B-tech intentions

This year i aim to use the concept of my jewellery to create an awareness around my topic, "sustainability" (expressing my concern), using my jewellery as a tool to convey this (narrative) message.

I intend (somehow) manufacturing jewellery that conveys the vulnerability/fragililty of nature. Whilst doing this i would like to investigate---- then incorporate where possible , sustainable ways to make jewellery more environmentally friendly.

I also plan to do more research on indigenous trees/plants and using these as reference to illustrate both the positive and the negative aspect of sustainability(fauna and flora as indicators). I also intend on finding and looking into jewellers and artist who use the environment as subject matter(in any meaningful way, not necessarily visual).eg Hamish Cambell , Sharon Church.