Jewellery designer jobs in Finland
Jewellery designers use a variety of materials, including gold, silver and precious stones to design and plan pieces of jewellery that can have a wearable or decorative purpose. They are involved in the different stages of the making process and may design for individual clients or for mass production clients.
Jewellery designer - Which skills are essential?
Handle, modify, or repair jewellery-making equipment such as jigs, fixtures, and hand tools such as scrapers, cutters, gougers, and shapers.
Make jewellery repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewellery back together, and replacing broken or worn-out clasps and mountings.
Mark or engrave designs on metal pieces or pieces of jewellery, closely following design specifications.
Buy and sell jewellery, or serve as an intermediate between potential buyers and sellers.
Reshape jewellery mountings.
Heat and melt jewellery materials; pour in moulds to cast jewellery models. Use jewellery-making material such as spanners, pliers or presses.
Smoothen rough parts of pieces of jewellery using hand files and emery paper.
Create pieces of jewellery using precious materials such as silver and gold.
Heat, melt and shape metals for jewellery making.
Select and purchase gems to use in jewellery pieces and designs.
The history of art and artists, the artistic trends throughout centuries and their contemporary evolutions.
Examine finished jewellery products to ensure that they meet quality standards and design specifications. Use magnifying glasses, polariscopes or other optical instruments.
Record the amount of time it took to process an item of jewellery.
Select and purchase precious metals and alloys to use in jewellery pieces
Identify influences and situate your work within a specific trend which may be of an artistic, aesthetic, or philosophical natures. Analyse the evolution of artistic trends, consult experts in the field, attend events, etc.
Coordinate the artistic activities with others who are specialised in the technical side of the project. Inform the technical staff of the plans and methods suggested and obtain feedback on feasibility, cost, procedures and other relevant information. Be able to understand the vocabulary and practises concerning technical issues.
Closely examine gemstone surfaces using polariscopes or other optical instruments.
Construct preliminary jewel models using wax, plaster or clay. Create sample castings in moulds.
Record the weight of finished jewellery pieces.
Cut and shape gemstones and jewellery pieces.
Define your own artistic approach by analysing your previous work and your expertise, identifying the components of your creative signature, and starting from these explorations to describe your artistic vision.
Develop new jewellery designs and products, and modify existing designs.
Determine appraised value of gemstones such as diamonds and pearls; study price guides, market fluctuations and grades of rarity.
Gather samples of the materials you expect to use in the creation process, especially if the desired piece of art necessitates the intervention of qualified workers or specific production processes.
Mount gemstones in pieces of jewellery closely following design specifications. Place, set and mount gemstones and metal parts.
Clean and polish metal items and pieces of jewellery; handle mechanical jewellery-making tools such as polishing wheels.
Jewellery designer - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Assess and list the needs for conservation/restoration, in relation to current use and planned future use.
Plan and implement artistic facilities, performance, venues and museum-related educational activities and events.
Create and develop educational resources for visitors, school groups, families and special interest groups.
Developing artistic project budgets for approval, estimating deadlines and material costs.
Develop speeches, activities and workshops in order to foster access and comprehension to the artistic creation processes. It can address a particular cultural and artistic event such as a show or an exhibition, or it can be related to a specific discipline (theatre, dance, drawing, music, photography etc.). Liaise with storytelles, craftspeople and artists.
File and organise personal administration documents comprehensively.
Present an exhibition and give educational lectures in a comprehensible way that is attractive to the public.
Participate in cultural and artistic mediation activities: announce the activity, give a presentation or talk related to a piece of art or an exhibition, teach a class or a group, lead artistic mediation activities, lead or participate in a public discussion.