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500 Plastic Jewelry Designs: A Groundbreaking Survey of A Modern Material
Lark Books

I finally got this new book in the "500 Series" jewelry books.
Just about every plastic material imaginable is in use somewhere in this book. Styrofoam, silicone, legos, rubber, acrylic sheet, repurposed materials, resin.. even the exhausted "resin with candy sprinkles" approach is artfully presented here.
To put it cheesily, it's like having my dream gallery exhibition at hand.
It makes me feel like all my hours each week of looking at jewelry online is in vain, that I have only ever come across a handful of these artists.
A review without photos doesn't do the book justice. Unfortunately there aren't many online so I'll demonstrate some items by some of the jewelers in the book:


LianaKabel


margauxlange


Karen McCreary


Liaung Chung Yen


Mary Donald

Labels: books, jewelry

Posted by: Kara Mae 11/16/2009 11:00:00 PM