Geek Jewelry Turns Techno Fashion

Geek Jewelry Turns Techno Fashion<br /><br />Innovative jewelry designers constantly look for interesting materials from which they can make jewelry. During a personal hiatus from the craft, I took to soldering small circuit boards. I discovered then that electronic components could stand in for traditional gems, and small circuit boards could stand as featured elements in jewelry designs. It was a eureka moment!<br /><br />Capacitors, resistors, diodes, regulators, LEDs, transistors, and circuit boards constitute the collection of components that lend themselves to a high tech look in jewelry. It has been known around university electronics labs that students, especially the ladies, would depart from their hands on digital drudgery to design something creative to wear. Thus was born what was soon to be called geek jewelry.<br /><br />Populated circuit boards that failed in function could function as a pendant when attached to earwires or a neck chain with a bale. Such simplistic designs announced the designer as a geek getting away from graduate studies for a while. The pejorative term must have inspired more inspired designs.<br /><br />Those designers soon to be electrical engineers put some creativity into their designs by clustering or arraying the components in more intricate arrangements. This served to utilize the steely modern look of the electronic components without adding a geeky component to the lab born jewelry designs.<br /><br />It was when jewelry designers by trade noticed the high tech appeal of electronic components that they began to incorporate them into their jewelry couture. Recognizing the inherent appeal of such designs to current day conscious and technically oriented clientele, famous names such as Italian designer Paola Mirai, fashioned recycled electronic components as features in their creations. Techno fashion became the new nomenclature for high tech jewelry.<br /><br />In jewelry as in architecture, form follows function. Designers are shaking off old notions of gemstones for focus in jewelry and taking on technical forms to function as up to the minute attractors in current designs.<br /><br />Published by Lorraine Yapps Cohen<br /><br />I design jewelry free from the constraints of textbook techniques and write non fiction free from the rigors of technical expression. Chemist by training, creative by spirit, conservative in values, crazy a. View profile<br /><br />New Age Treasure Hunting with High Tech Metal DetectorsA lot has changed since the introduction of the first metal detectors; the newer models tell you whats down there before you dig. This hobby will at least pay for itself. Find out what the latest jewelry styles and trends will be. Graduation Gifts for High School or College StudentsYou can find great gift ideas for the high school or college graduate at a special website with hundreds of gifts.