Design Space

May 4, 2011 | Posted by Kate

Kate and Zoe are renoun for making beautiful bespoke jewellery but they have another string to their bow – mentoring students and new graduates. They are looking forwards to presenting a marketing seminar for the jewellery designer / makers; of the incubation support programme ‘DESIGN SPACE‘ set up by Birmingham City Council. The scheme provides [...]

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2012 Trends

March 30, 2011 | Posted by Kate

For the past few weeks Zoe Phillips and I have been collating all the trend information that we have gathered to identify what we think will be the 2012 trend directions. Why were we doing this? We were invited by the Interior and Lifestyle Futures action group to deliver a short course on the impact [...]

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Kate Thorley to deliver summer courses at the School of Jewellery

February 23, 2011 | Posted by Kate

5th July 2011 – SHORT COURSE: EMERGING TRENDS: EXPLORE AND EXPLOIT On this interactive workshop you will learn how to identify and interpret emerging trends and develop this information into winning designs. This one day course will start with a short seminar covering where trends emerge from, how to map them as they develop and [...]

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World Habitat Day

January 21, 2011 | Posted by Kate

Thought you might like to see some of the other work Zoe and I have collaborated on. We have been designing the prestigious WHA trophies since 2006, the winning projects are presented with the sterling silver trophy and a £10,000 World Habitat Award by the Building and Social Housing Foundation. The Awards are presented to Innovative [...]

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Nest Creates has A-list Style

September 28, 2010 | Posted by Kate

Nest Creates jewellery featured in the latest issue of the World Wide Weddings magazine as the first step to A-list Style. “Having anything specially created for you and knowing that it is completely unique, feels like the ultimate luxury, but can be more affordable than you think,” say Kate Thorley and Zoe Youngman

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Jewellery Case Study

September 22, 2010 | Posted by Kate

Nest Creates designed a platinum & 18ct white gold engagement ring with a 1/3ct diamond and a fitted wedding band housing a natural cognac diamond for a couple who were happy to be used in our web film. Their story was captured in a sketch book animation.

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