How does CAD help in the world of jewelry? The head of the program made a presentation and showed us some of the past students’ work and shared some jobs graduates were doing, and I knew that not only could I have a career doing something I enjoyed, but that I wouldn’t be a “starving artist.” The program focused equally on teaching us bench jewelry skills like fabrication, wax carving, casting, etc., and also on learning to create intricate and detailed objects in the CAD program Rhinoceros.
Once I got to Tyler School of Art and heard more about their Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM program, I knew it was something I would enjoy. But coming from a small high school in suburban Pennsylvania I was only really exposed to two-dimensional art, like painting and drawing. When I got to college, all I knew was that art was my passion.
CAD programs allow for a lot of manipulation and almost infinite detail in whatever you are doing, and they are utilized in architecture, industrial manufacturing, product design, and, of course, jewelry! How did you get interested in jewelry design and this platform in particular? It is basically design that occurs in a program on a computer, where you can create three-dimensional objects in the virtual world. Julia, for those who have no idea what CAD is, can you please explain it to us in terms we can all understand?ĬAD is an acronym for Computer Aided Design. Meet Julia Ballaron, our in-house CAD Designer, Bench Jeweler and Social Media Wiz… Let us shed some light on this amazing technology that lends itself particularly well to jewelry design. And you may or may not know what the heck that is. You may or may not know that we have a CAD Designer at Brown Goldsmiths.