Jewelry Portfolio

Majored in Jewelry Fabrication and CADCAM Design at Tyler School of Art
Rachel’s boundaries were encouraged to be pushed every day to succeed with creating out of this world concepts.
 
 

Project: Create an aesthetically pleasing design that can be used to apply makeup.

Using aluminum sheets and a jewelers saw, I began cutting out long ovals into the metal. After all the metal was pierced out and stacked, I started forging the soft metal into the shape you see in the final design. Securing the pieces with small bolts and screws, you have the flexibility to manipulate the metal as you wish while using the brush.

Project: Create a linkage bracelet or necklace

When I designed the Jellies Linkage, I sketched a lot of different versions and where the actual joint between the links would attach. In the end, I had the connection hidden behind the head of the jelly that gives the illusion of a continuous design. Overall, the delicacy of designing links for a necklace goes unnoticed by many who wear necklaces. If you have one on, someone might have spent hours creating one perfect link that connect to one another to make up your favorite necklace!

Project: Design a piece that has a hidden mechanism to open a design

Forged and bent out of metal, a lily flower is formed to securely fit around your wrist. Tasked to create a detachable bracelet, a hidden mechanism secures the pedals of the lily onto your wrist. When it is time to detach the bracelet, simply twist the stamen and carpel center piece of the lily to remove the beautiful, formed copper piece.

Project: Create a design that uses an O-ring (rubber ring)

It was in this particular time period that inspired this wine-stopper design.  The design was created with the mold lost wax method and then pressure casted in fine silver (925). The legs were sculpted out of clay and plastic netting was added afterward to create a stocking look on the legs. Using a rubber 0-ring to secure the cork in place to keep the wine fresh for enjoyment.

Project: Create a design with a hidden USB drive.

Big Fish Eating Little Fish was inspired by a scene in Finding Nemo where the mom fish is dropping off her kids at school and they all swim out of her mouth. Although it did not end up looking like they were a family, I morphed the name into a more appropriate name. Hidden in the mouth of the Large Fish is the USB drive and when it is time to use it, you just pull the chain of smaller fish out of the mouth to be used. The final design is an eight-inch-long brooch that stays securely on your shirt so you can use the USB drive whenever you need to.

Project: Create an abstract concept that is unrealistic to use in life.

In this series of fabrication combined with 3D printing, my concept for un-realistic expectations was to create a series that prevented you to do a simple task, such as drinking from a straw. By far my favorite design, I created a sea urchin like form to add to any straw. Any attempt to drink from the end of the straw would end with you poking your eye with a spike.

 
 

My final design mimicked a coral reef where the pieces of the lamp could intertwine with one another to create one large working lamp. And just like an actual coral reef where one giant coral reef is made up of many smaller organisms, the lamp can be separated into three separate pieces.

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I developed a love of designing and crafting. With endless inspiration and little place to store inventory, I wanted to share my designs with the world. If you love farmhouse and jewelry, my site is for you!

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