The
Ugly Necklace Contest
An
annual jewelry design competition with a twist
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ABOUT THE JEWELRY DESIGN CRITERIA
USED TO EVALUATE THE ENTRIES IN THE UGLY NECKLACE CONTEST - It Ain't
Easy Doing Ugly, or as my momma says, "Ugly is as Ugly does."
ABOUT
GOOD JEWELRY DESIGN
- Principles of Composition
by Warren Feld
Entries, some Ugly, some not, to The Ugly Necklace Contest -- You be the Judge!
It ain't easy doing UGLY!
Can you do better? -- Submit
your entry to this year's contest
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Forum
Share your reactions, opinions
and thoughts about our Ugly Necklace entries,
or about the Contest as a whole.
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SUMMARY
OF ADJUSTED JUDGES SCORING
The judges use a very involved scoring system. They rate
and rank each necklace in terms of several jewelry design criteria,
as well as things like
-
their subjective reaction to the necklace
as a whole,
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their sense of the degree the artist seemed to have conscious,
strategic, deliberate control over how the design elements came together
within his or her piece,
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the wearability of the piece, and
-
the parsimonious
elegance of the design work.
In these Ugly Necklace Galleries of Entries, I've summarized the judges
work on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 is Not Ugly and 7 is Very Ugly.
[NOTE:
These Adjusted Scores use a different scale than the on-line
voting.]
Specifically, these Adjusted
Judges Scores mean the following:
THUMBS DOWN.... (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)....THUMBS UP
1: NOT UGLY AT ALL
2: NOT UGLY, BUT ARTIST USES ONE CLEVER DESIGN FEATURE, SUCH AS THE
MATERIALS USED, OR THE OVERALL CONCEPT
3: FALLS SHORT OF UGLY SOMEHOW, BUT HAS MORE THAN ONE CLEVER DESIGN FEATURE
4: COULD BE UGLY, COULD BE NOT UGLY
5: SOMEWHAT UGLY, PERHAPS WITH THREE OR MORE CLEVER DESIGN FEATURES, SUCH
AS THE CLASP ASSEMBLY, MATERIALS USE, AND OVERALL CONCEPT
6: UGLY BUT SHORT SOMEHOW IN DESIGN ELEMENTS AND/OR THEIR APPLICATION
OR IMPLEMENTATION
7: VERY UGLY AND WELL-THOUGHT-OUT AND STRATEGICALLY IMPLEMENTED DESIGN
CONCEPTS
THUMBS
DOWN.... (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)....THUMBS UP
See this article to read about:
THE JEWELRY DESIGN CRITERIA
USED TO EVALUATE THE ENTRIES
IN
THE UGLY NECKLACE CONTEST
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