Bliss Inspirations

Bridge Jewelry

Judith Ripka has a bridge jewelry line that incorperates sterling silver and gold with precious and semi precious gem stones. These pieces resemble costume jewelry in style and trend but are made of more precios materials and seem to lie somewhere in between fine and costume jewelry. Her style, although simple and expected reaches a wide audience.http://www.judithripka.com/

Fine Jewelry

Fine jeweler, Carl Blackburn created this fine jewelry collection in 2008 for Pearlmans Jewelers. With a unique design aestitic he has interwoven the connection of love beauty and nature into this line. The symmetry, unity and balance of this ring give the viewer a full sense of the devotion to the craft that he has portrayed through this piece.http://www.carlblackburn.com/

Costume Jewelry

Urban Outfitters features costume jewelry of the latest trends targeted towards a youthful customer. The Tear Drop Cluster Earrings are sold for $20.00 and feature base metal with stones that are glued in and sure to fall out one day. These mass produced costume jewelry items are made to break and this is reflected by the low price and poor quality of product. These items are in one day and out the next and are made to be disposable pieces that can traded out when the new trend follows.http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/index.jsp

art Jewelry forum

http://www.artjewelryforum.org/blog/category/diamonds/

Came across this blog that offers a wide range of information on galleries, artists and pieces in the jewelry industry.

Production Jewelry

These zipper pieces are done by Kate Cusac and portray undulating curves and circular forms that activate positive and negative space.

Check out Margaux Lange's blog. She is a studio art jeweler who has been producing a nastalgic jewelry line inspired by barbie. She uses sterling silver, found objects (barbie parts) and resins. 

http://midgesmind.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html

Art Jewelry

 Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst. Plaza of Lever House, New York City

This is by far my favorite art jeweler because of the sheer awe of his pieces.  Damien Hirst is one of the top British contemporary jewelers.  This piece titled, "Skull and Bones", is fabricated in platinum and diamonds and is life size!  The total carat weight is 1106.18.  Also the piece by Garrard titled "Guns and Roses" is an amazing piece made in platinum and diamonds. "
http://fashionjewellries.blogspot.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst