Creative Freedom - Technology has opened doors for jewelry designers.

Creative Freedom - Technology has opened doors for jewelry designers by Suzanne Wade, published on Ganoksin.

http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/creative-freedom.htm

In this article, Wade writes about the impressive designs that are being produced today thanks to the huge development in technology. With the developments achieved in CAD/CAM capabilities and the invention of laser welding, jewellers are not only creating designs they would have previously only dreamed of, but they are also creating designs they previously created but with a higher level of detail. 

It is also a huge timesaver as Paul Klecka, a designer based in Chicago whom she interviewed, points out. Designs that might have been thought up before but might have been shelved due to the large amount of time that would have been needed to be invested in them are now being made in a fraction of the time as well as with more minute details.

It is not only what these tools themselves are able to achieve, but, as a lot of jewellers are learning, they can be used in conjunction with other tools and older techniques in order to produce truly unique pieces.

"As even those skilled in the new technologies point out, technology is just a tool; it can't replace a talented designer with vision. However, it can - and is - expanding the limits of what's possible for that talent to create" (Wade, 2004)

References

Wade, S., 2004. Creative Freedom - Technology has opened doors for jewelry designers. Ganoksin [Online]
Available at: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/creative-freedom.htm
[Accessed 27 April 2015].