ABSTRACT
Jewellery design encompasses multiple modes for communicating meaning, including drawing, writing, and three-dimensional artefacts. This chapter investigates design resources, interrogating how they are used and what prompts change and development in the production of designs within the context of jewellery design pedagogy. These resources include students’ visual and written design books, conceptual drawings, technical drawings, and their three-dimensional produced jewellery artefacts. The design process is interrogated within the context of a three-year Diploma in Jewellery Design. The process of jewellery designing encompasses different stages of meaning-making, which are defined by their use, materiality, and medium. The significant points in the design process occur when there is a change across modes (from observations in the world to drawing, designing to materialised artefact) or changes within the same mode, especially from drawing to technical drawing.
