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Job Description

What does a jewellery designer actually do?

Jewellery designers prepare sketches by hand or on the computer to conceptualise the design.

After consulting with the customer or the manufacturing team, designers create detailed drawings, a structural model, computer simulations, or a full-scale prototype or model.

Increasingly, many designers now use computer-aided design (CAD) programmes and tools to create and better visualise the final product. Computer models make it much easier and quicker to create and work on a number of design alternatives.

This thus reduces design costs and the time it takes to deliver a product to market or specific client.

Each specific jewellery design is created keeping in mind various specifications like clarity, design structure, weight and stones to be used.

Getting started

If you have no experience of jewellery design and manufacture, the incubator recommends that you fill this gap in your knowledge before approaching us to start your business.

SPI has no training courses of its own and has partnered with  ORBIT Further Education and Training (FET) College as a service provider in North West province. ORBIT teaches aspiring jewellers skills in jewellery  production. The training is in line with other Centres of Excellence in the jewellery industry around the world.

If you would like to attend another institution, have a look at our linkages page.