A growing number of designer jewellery brands who are happily stepping into what was once the preserve of the contemporary art jeweller-- innovative choices of material and method. Here are a few of a growing list of premium and luxury brands which create jewellery using both innovative materials and innovative manufacturing processes:
According to a recent article from 3D Printing Industry, Lockheed Martin has just filed a patent for a synthetic diamond 3D printer. And predictably, social media’s imagination
It seems we have recently started seeing a big momentum change in the fields of wearable tech and smart clothing. Recent innovations in embedded RFID technology (as I
This fantastic lecture comes courtesy of a former student and author of the jewelleryweekly.com blog. (Thank you, Anissa!) President and CEO of 3D Systems Avi Reichental has presented quite
Sometimes you can take very old processes and combine them together to find a new innovation in jewellery making. For my latest entry in Something Beautiful in Jewellery,
The World Economic Forum has just published an interesting list of their predictions for the top 10 most prominent emergent technologies for this year. Of course, 3D
3DPrinting.com has published an article discussing how MakerBot is currently formulating effective 3D printing materials to simulate both iron, wood, limestone, and bronze. See for yourself: 3DPrinting.com
On the recent GE Looking Ahead posting in the Economist online, they discuss a technology called 3D Inking. It is similar to 3D printing, except that what is being printed