May 6Why Can’t I Get A Break?Did you know that the inventor of the oil derrick died penniless and destitute? One hundred and fifty years ago, in Titusville, Pennsylvania, Edwin Laurentine Drake figured out how to drive a pipe into the ground, in a way that debris would not fill it up, and extract oil. Before…Business3 min read
Apr 30THREADING THE BUSINESS NEEDLE: Management Strategies For Integrating Business and DesignThreading The Business Needle Guiding Questions: 1. How can a jewelry designer survive successfully as a business? 2. To what extent should business considerations influence artistic choices? 3. What business fundamentals should be brought to the fore? 4. How does the creative person develop and maintain a passion for business? 5. What similar traits…Business Of Craft6 min read
Apr 26Check out these new books by Warren Feld!SO YOU WANT TO BE A JEWELRY DESIGNER Merging Your Voice With Form 588pp, many images and diagrams Ebook or Print You make jewelry. That is what you do. But when you think jewelry and speak jewelry and work jewelry, this is what you have become. This is your purpose. Becoming a Jewelry Designer is exciting. With each piece, you are challenged with…Jewelry Making5 min read
Jan 27Self-Care: Critical Advice For The Jewelry DesignerAbstract Balancing work and life is a challenge for everyone, but particularly for creatives. Designing pieces of jewelry involves a complicated process of finding inspiration and translating often-fuzzy images and ideas into aspirations and then finished designs. The designer usually creates each piece of jewelry over an extended period of…Self Care11 min read
Dec 23, 2021PEARL KNOTTING … Warren’s WayA Video Tutorial By Warren Feld — Preview In this class, I teach a non-traditional pearl knotting technique which is Very easy for people to learn and do, Does…so-you-want-to-be-a-jewelry-designer.teachable.com I am so excited to share my online video tutorial with you!Pearls5 min read
Dec 3, 2021BASICS OF BEAD STRINGING AND ATTACHING CLASPS: How To Make The Smartest Design Choices When Stringing BeadsVideo Tutorial Series by Warren Feld — PREVIEW (Click Here) Enroll in my jewelry design and business of craft Video Tutorials online. Begin with my ORIENTATION TO BEADS & JEWELRY FINDINGS COURSE. I am so excited to share my online video tutorial with you! Learning bead stringing is more than putting beads on a string and tying…Bead Stringing4 min read
Oct 15, 2021Designing With The Brain In Mind: Perception, Cognition, SexualityAbstractCognition21 min read
Jul 18, 2021Finding A Job Which Utilizes Your Jewelry Making Experience: Some Expected and Some Unexpected PossibilitiesFinding A Job Which Utilizes Your Jewelry Making Experience There are actually many career pathways for people who have backgrounds in jewelry making and bead working. Besides the obvious pathways of making jewelry to sell, or teaching jewelry making, there are still many job and career opportunities for you. You may have to do a little more leg work…Jewelry Making9 min read
Jul 14, 2021Saying Good-bye! To Your Jewelry: A Rite Of PassageOne of the most difficult things I have to do as a designer is say Good-Bye! to my pieces. I make something. I put it out there for sale. Someone buys it. I will probably never see it again. Yes, I can make another one, but that’s not the same…Jewelry Design8 min read