It's not easy to do Ugly!
Our
5 distinguished judges associated with The Center
for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts reviewed 33 Ugly
Necklace submissions to our contest, and selected
10 semi-finalists.
They rated each necklace using 10 jewelry design
criteria. They examined the
overall hideousness of
the necklace,
how
clever were the materials used,
how the
design of the necklace
violated good jewelry design rules associated with
color, form, balance, distribution of the elements,
and focus.
They
also looked at issues of how
the necklace was constructed and its wearability,
and
how
well the accompanying poem elaborated on the
necklace and its ugliness.
The
Winner receives a first prize of a $992.93 shopping
spree on the Land of Odds web-site (www.landofodds.com),
and the Runner-Up receives a prize of a $399.07 shopping
spree on the web-site.
Please
vote and evaluate each semi-finalist's entry in terms
of how well you think the jewelry-making artist achieves
"Ugly". The "Ugliest Necklace", of course,
will be by the artist with the most jewelry-making
design talent.
When
voting closes, voting logs will be reviewed for
any duplicate or otherwise illegitimate votes
(for example, those from the same IP or email
address), and these will be deleted. The on-line
votes will be tallied and used to adjust the
original votes of the Panel of Judges at CBJA,
in the selection of a winner. The public's votes
will weigh towards 25% of the final tally in
selecting the Winner and Runner-Up.
And
consider submitting an entry to next year's
The
Fourth Annual Ugly Necklace Contest!
Entries
accepted beginning Sept 1, 2005, with the final entry
submission
date of Mar 15, 2006.
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."
Summary
of Adjusted Judges Scoring Criteria
ABOUT
GOOD JEWELRY DESIGN
- Principles of Composition
by Warren Feld
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