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Here is another one of my pieces. This is a silver bangle which I made for my mum. I knew she wanted a simplistic bangle so that’s what I created but to make the piece more special and personal to her, I stamped the word ‘mum’ on the inside of the bangle.

I stamped the word, soldered the ends together, shaped the piece, then filed and sanded the edges and then topped it off with neatly polishing it.

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Here are a few of my practical pieces to help expand my original idea and help develop it further.

I used copper for all these pieces for the main frame and the wire going through the pieces is silver with balled ends.

I used tube settings for my stones and used green and red since they are key colours in Indonesian culture.

These pieces all have taken inspiration from Borobudur and have been made into my own take on it and taken influence from the artist, Nikki Nation.

These pieces include copper wire and bending them to different shapes and forms. This piece is just me experimenting with the slight triangular shape of the Indonesian architecture and basing it off of that.

This is the beginning and current look of my piece I'm working on currently. Here I have used twisted wire and soldered it onto the copper hoop, then I have soldered on granulation balls and I have also added wire twisted round the hoop to create an Indonesian feel to the piece.

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These sketches were for a previous project of mine focused on nature, and the media I used for this giraffe piece was watercolours.

This sketch was done with pencil and inspired from a photo I took from when I was living in Asia.

These sketches were to help inspire a piece for my jewellery and I felt if I took the literal object first, then I would be able to develop it and create it into something unique.

This was for my current A-Level piece and I used my own reference photos to take inspiration from.

This piece was created with watercolours and has taken inspiration from the Buddhist temple, Borobudur.

The red, yellow and orange colours on this piece, I used because of their traditional value when making Indonesian batik.

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Here is a piece I created for my A-Level Jewellery course, a project based on Indonesian culture.

I did some technical drawings to help present my piece from different angles and detail and added annotations.

All these designs were similar to each other since they were all mainly based off of a temple called Borobudur in Yogyakarta.

The block coloured piece was to present my ideas in a different format and to help show other parts of the culture off, the colours are all colours in traditional batik in Indonesia.

I used line drawings and block colours to add some detail to the piece and make it stand out so people would be intrigued to look and pay attention to my piece.

All these sketches were to present my jewellery piece and how they would be shown on a person with the way they would sit and look

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I used SketchUp for designing and creating the outside of the room and the structure of the room. When creating the room, I used the measurements in millimetres to keep my piece as accurate as possible.

As well as that, I focused my structure and interior architectures around where I would put the bed in the room since the bed is the main feature in any bedroom. When designing the hotel I used pieces from 3D warehouse.

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Here is a hotel I designed during work experience at a company called BSBG in Dubai, UAE.

During this project, I worked with the company’s design team to help create my piece.

I decided to create a hotel in an exotic location so I also had to opportunity to create landscaping as well as the interiors and architecture.

The programmes I used to create my piece were:

-Sketch-up

-Façade

-Enscape

-3D warehouse

-Lumion

-Adobe Indesign

I had no experience with these programmes until my work experience when I got taught how to use each software properly and efficiently.

When creating the hotel, I thought of features that would make it more desirable in real life, so I created sliding doors that would overlap so they could fold away and open the room to the outside.

As well as that, when creating my landscape I decided to create a deck attached to the rooms to allow some more space for the guests.

When photographing my piece, I rendered the pictures to make them look more realistic and I took all the photos from different perspectives so you could see all angles. I also used different reflections in the pictures to make it look realistic.