How to become a Jewellery Designer

Jewellery Design is an art that brings knowledge of Jewellery design and manufacturing products made of Jewellery. Aspirants who want to opt for a Jewellery designing course are taught special skills such as electroplating, metal colouring, enamelling, and stone setting. The Jewellery designing course will also provide a learning experience in drawing, mould making, brainstorming, and making techniques. In addition, the jewellery designing course helps aspirants to master the fundamentals of CAD. The role of a Jewellery designer is to assess material, learn marketing and management skills, develop aesthetic skills, work around craftsmanship skills, design and development of unique Jewellery design skills.

The roles and resposibilities of jewellery designer includes:

• To review and correct products for technical accuracy for client approval.
• To modify and integrate new features in samples creatively.
• To study and learn Jewellery making process.
• To attain detailed knowledge of materials, metal technical grasp and components to create clean, precise and meticulous designs and sketches.
• To develop well visualized and imagined jewellery designs utilizing magazine tears.

To become a Jewellery Designer, the aspirants must need to develop specific skills like innovative ideas for the design aspect of rings, earrings, necklaces, jewellery designs, drawing, mould making, brainstorming, learning marketing and management skills, developing aesthetic skills, working around craftsmanship skills, design and development of unique jewellery designs skills.

Salary of a Jewellery designer depends largely upon their institute or university from which the degree is attained, academic qualification and the level of work experience they have achieved. The annual start salary of Jewellery designer from prestigious institutes is in between 3 to 5 lacs. With some good experience Jewellery designer can earn between 5 to 8 lacs.

To enroll into a Jewellery Designing course, it is essential for the aspiring candidate to clear entrance exams conducted by various educational institutes. Most widely conducted entrance exams are NIFT Entrance/AIEED/FDDI-AIST/UCEED.

• Industry and commerce
• Private Agencies and MNCs
• Gems and Jewellery Industry
• Manufacturing Industry.