Interview about Cheers Brooch, winner of the A' Jewelry Design Award 2024
The overall shape of this brooch is a large wine glass, which in turn has various shapes of shot glasses. The shot glasses represent every moment of celebration, and the akoya pearls represent the bubbles rising from the wine, a series of bubbles dancing as excitedly as those people raising their glasses. This is a soft, lightweight brooch with pearl bubbles that can swing. The back of the brooch is also a wine glass with bubbles flowing, as if you are drinking a glass at this moment.
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View Design DetailsWhen I asked the factory to move a string of bubbles, the factory was stumped, because we had to consider the firmness and whether it would collide with other parts when swinging, but later we discussed what kind of structure to use and which positions to swing and which positions not to swing, and successfully solved the above problems.
I think it was my husband's birthday last time. We invited my sister and brother-in-law to celebrate together. Of course, the celebration was inseparable from drinking. When we drank a toast, I felt wonderful when I saw the bubbles in the glass. I think pearls are made in water and round, which is very suitable for designing elements related to water, so there are Cheers behind them.
Until adulthood, I found that many people's happiness is not to have a lot of money and benefits, but to pursue a simple life. This simplicity is reflected in lifestyle and dress, so in fact, Cheers is also very simple as a whole, with wine glasses and bubbles. We can easily imagine the scene of a toast when we see it. I chose 18K gold as the material of the wine glass. The wine glass with 18K gold is actually a reflection of life pressure and an element that suggests us to transform pressure. Because the metal wine glass will show everything around it, just like a mirror of life, and all the pressure is present in it, but how to turn pressure into motivation is what we need to explore and think about. As for why we choose pearls, because pearls are organic gems, they can be regarded as a living gem, and bubbles are our emotional elements. In this work, it expresses happiness. I think pearls can convey this emotion well, and AKOYA's unique pink halo looks like everyone's slightly drunk face.
The first is the structure of the wine glass. I think the three-dimensional wine glass is the most beautiful. It looks like a funnel. On the one hand, the double-sided design takes into account the cost. On the other hand, I want the audience to feel the flowing feeling of wine and small bubbles in the wine glass through the back. On the front, we see the bubbles flowing out of the glass, while on the back, we see the wine and bubbles flowing in the glass. I think the front and back design is the complete Cheers scene.
Because it is a three-dimensional shape, in fact, in the early stage of design, we made many adjustments to the three-dimensional shape of the wine glass, including the size of the wine glass and the height of the side, because it is necessary to consider that the position of the back close to the body can have a relatively large position close to the body, and the adjustment of the height of the pearl actually takes a lot of time, because we have to consider the flow direction of the bubbles and what the whole bubble line is like. At the same time, the whole brooch is not heavy, and the left and right sides can be slightly kneaded.
We have adjusted the shape of the wine glasses several times. We specially found different shapes of the wine glasses, and then further observed the shapes and proportions of the related wine glasses from the sketched wine glasses. As for the size arrangement of the wine glasses, we actually referred to the number of the wine glasses on the left and right sides, and there are four wine glasses on the left and right sides. The large and small wine glasses are staggered to achieve visual balance, so that the overall large shape is also a streamline of the wine glasses. As for the specific arrangement, we will combine the design of pearls.
In fact, contemporary women attach great importance to self-esteem, because their economic thoughts can be relatively independent, and everyone attaches great importance to the sense of ceremony, which can make their lives happier and better, and Cheers itself is a very ceremonial work.
I think computer-aided design is very important. The structural adjustment in the early stage is basically done on Jewelry Cad. It can easily and intuitively show me the overall effect in the early stage, such as the adjustment of proportion and the adjustment of the position of details, including the side and back. After the adjustment is almost the same, we can spray wax to see the effect and make further details adjustment.
When I see a pink pearl, I think of a little tipsy moment. Together with the swaying bubbles, it will bring me into a very happy scene. The scene and reflection on the glass are like a mirror. What will you think when you look in the mirror? I believe that most of the time we will smile at the mirror.
In fact, my current idea is to make Cheers a commercial series to extend it, to integrate the celebration moments into life and to wear happy emotions with me.
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