Kim Lyons
Cotati,CA
Summary
Seasoned Jewelry Designer specializing in working with corporate, private clients, jewelry showrooms, boutiques and craft fairs.
Possessing strong understanding of market trends. Expertise in mass producing designs and prototypes while also proven skills in designing, producing unique jewelry pieces. Proficient in producing one-of-a-kind works and mass production molds. Successful transforming customer desires into top-quality designs while staying in budget. Skilled in project management, and customer relations.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Jewelry Designer - Bench Jeweler
Self Employed
06.1996 - 06.2016
- Worked with individual clients to design unique wedding and engagement rings, communicating effectively to establish vision and specifications. Materials used: 14 and 18k gold, platinum, and silver.
- Fabricated pieces by hand and using specialized bench equipment and hand tools.
- Designed and fabricated 3 collections per year per contract with showroom who handled wholesale orders.
- .Conceived and executed branding ideas based on Outer Space themes such as "Dark Matter". Designed and created website, photography sessions, used for marketing and applying to craft fairs.
- Set up and sold my experimental, and one of a kind designs in booths at craft fairs in NY, Chicago, Florida, and SF.
- Privately taught wax carving and basic bench skills.
- Designed and illustrated private label jewelry.
Education
Jewelry Design
Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, NYBachelor of Arts - Fine Art
University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA06.1989
Skills
- Jewelry Bench: soldering, hand sawing, wax carving, annealing, ring sizing, polishing, bezel fabricating, stone setting, polishing, wire wrapping, assembly
- Jewelry finishing
- Jewelry inspection skills
- Gemstones
- Jewelry Design
- Jewelry Illustration
- Sales Goals
- Cost Sheets
- Visual Merchandising -
- Client Relationships - wholesale and retail
- Instruction and mentoring for young designers and bench jewelers, and for those starting a business
- Painting and Drawing: charcoal, oil paint, acrylic
- Building and stretching canvases
- Building and creating displays
Additional Information
Craft Shows:
American Craft Council, San Francisco (Juried)
Bust Craftacular, NY
Renegade, Chicago
One of a Kind Show, Chicago
Artist and Fleas, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Night Bazaar
Young Designer's Market, NYC
Press:
Tree Hugger
Maxim
Carrot Box
Timeline
Jewelry Designer - Bench Jeweler
Self Employed
06.1996 - 06.2016
Jewelry Design
Fashion Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts - Fine Art
University of California - Los Angeles
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