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Jewelry and Metal Arts Subject Guide
Jewelry Design
- Unexpected pleasures: The art and design of contemporary jewellery (2012)
- Contemporary jewelry art: innovative materials (2011)
- On jewellery: a compendium of international contemporary art jewellery (2011)
- Rings (2011)
- Dreaming jewelry (2010)
- Fashion for jewels: 100 years of styles and icons (2010)
- Jewelry by artists: in the studio 1940-2000: selections from the Daphne Farago Collection (2010)
- Jewelry design challenge: 10 materials, 30 artists, 30 spectacular projects (2010)
- Jewelry design handbook = Le design des bijoux: Schmuckdesign: Juweelontwerp (2010)
- 7000 years of jewelry (2008)
- Mourning art & jewelry (2004)
- Jewelry design: rings (2001)
Jewelry Making Techniques
- Color, texture & casting for jewelers: hands-on demonstrations & practical applications (2011)
- Kumihimo wire jewelry: Essential techniques and 20 jewelry projects for the Japanese art of braiding (2011)
- The new encyclopedia of jewelry-making techniques (2010)
- The ultimate jeweler's guide: the illustrated reference of techniques, tools & materials (2010)
- Mixed-media jewellery (2009)
- The jeweler's studio handbook: traditional and contemporary techniques for working with metal and mixed-media materials (2009)
- Altered paper jewelry: artful adornments from beautiful papers (2008)
Jewelry Illustration
Metalsmithing
- Silversmithing for jewelry makers: a handbook of techniques and surface treatments (2012)
- Mixed metal mania: solder, rivet, hammer, and wire exceptional jewelry (2011)
- Soldering made simple: easy techniques for the kitchen-table jeweler (2010)
- Creative silver chains: 20 dazzling designs (2009)
- The complete metalsmith (2004)
- Jewelry: fundamentals of metalsmithing (1997)
- Metals technic: a collection of techniques for metalsmiths (1992)
- The Thames and Hudson manual of silversmithing (1980)
Metal Sculpture
- A sculpture reader: contemporary sculpture since 1980 (2006)
- The sculpture of Ruth Asawa: contours in the air (2006)
- Color on metal: 50 artists share insights and techniques (2001)
- Welded sculpture of the twentieth century (2000)
- Wire art: metals, techniques, sculpture, collage, jewelry, mixed media (1975)
- Sculpting in steel and other metals (1974)
eBooks
- Sculpting in wire (2009)
Current Subscriptions
- A Journal (Available online)
- Jewelry Artist
- Ornament (Available online)
Back Issues Only
Articles and Reference Resources
- Hoover's Company Profiles
- Mintel – You must create your Mintel account with your Academy of Art email address (username@art.edu, for students)
- WGSN
- WWD (Women's Wear Daily Online)
Image Websites
- Academy of Art University Digital Image Resources
- Victoria & Albert Museum Fashion Designs Exhibits
- Wikimedia Commons
Job Websites
Professional Organizations
Other Websites
- AAU Fashion Channel (YouTube)
- Business Subject Guide
- Fashion Annuals
- Vintage Fashion Magazines
- Fashion Files
- Image Resources in the Library
- Picture Files
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