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London studio Logical Art has created a series of papery necklaces with delicate cut-out patterns (+ movie).

They may look fragile, but the Air Tattoos are made of a tough paper-like material that’s waterproof and resistant to tearing.

Each one was developed from a hand drawing and simply clips around the neck by slotting one end through the other.

The designers are now raising money for production in exchange for pre-orders through crowd-funding platform Kickstarter.

Logical Art are the designers behind the Empty Memory USB necklaces that were among the bestselling products at our pop-up shop The Temporium in December. Take a look at them here.

See more stories about jewellery on Dezeen here and check out our Pinterest board on the topic here.

Here’s some more information from Logical Art:

Air Tattoo – A new body decoration concept.

London based design studio Logical Art has launched a new project Air Tattoo on the famous crowd funding website – Kickstarter.

Air Tattoo is a collection of wearable art pieces for decorating body and clothes. It enables you to wear a beautiful delicate “drawing” as a piece of paper jewellery. the patterns came from the original drawings of logical art designers.

The material is a special eco-friendly paper. It keeps all the great quality of normal paper (soft texture, light weight, beautiful tension), yet it is very strong. It is light, comfortable, and perfectly fit to your body (neck and shoulders) with our smart fitting design. It is also water-resistant/tear-resistant material, strong enough to wear, even for rainy days. It enables you to wear air tattoo multiple times. The texture is like a leather-piece which has its own quality of volume, like leather. The more you wear, the more leather-like looking it will be.

The idea behind this project is to convert delicate hand-drawn patterns into an air-like “tattoo”. It is something that can decorate the surface of both body and clothes.

The process of this project is very closely related to the “hand” and “craft” element, which gives a intimate feeling of the art work; yet in the same time the production process and material chosen comes with very practical industrial thinking, allowing the beautiful “wearable art” to be provided with a relative low price tag in fashion industry.

Logical Art is a London based Design Studio founded by product designers Hanhsi Chen & Yoo-Kyung Shin after their graduation from Royal College of Art in London. Their design ranges from daily objects, personal accessories to furniture and lighting. Logical Art is especially intrigued by the collision of art and design, thus aiming to blend the concept of art, sculpture and painting into quality products with reasonable price.

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The Invert collection of concept jewelry takes subtlety to a whole new level! The series, which includes earrings, wrist band, necklace and rings was designed with the idea that the user should wear the jewelry for themselves rather than for other people to see. The designs leave the gem stone almost totally unexposed, keeping the rock closer to the wearer and giving others who see it just a glimpse of the bling underneath.

Designer: Melany Wimpee

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New York-based Icelandic designer Jóhanna Methúsalemsdóttir of Kria based this collection of jewellery on the shapes of cod fish bones.

Cast in silver and brass, the Cod Collection includes earrings and pendants on silver cable-chain.

We spotted the jewellery while visiting Reykjavik for DesignMarch, which took place from 22 to 25 March – see our photos from studio visits and a walking architecture tour here.

Photographs above were taken with the Pentax K-01 camera designed by Marc Newson, which was kindly given to us by Pentax for the trip. Photography below is by Elisabet Davids.

Here are some more details from Kria:

Introducing the Cod Collection by Kria, a study of the form of a fish which has sustained the designer’s culture.

From a discarded skeleton, Kria extracts details in Nature to create objects with which one can ritualise and project their imagination.

The Kria jewellery collection is handmade by Jóhanna Methúsalemsdóttir in New York City.

This continues a theme from previous collections of exploring ritualism with objects collected from the shores of Iceland and North America and re-imagining artifacts in a continuing veneration of natural form and the spirituality they evoke – the abdomen shell of a crayfish, the vertebrae of a transoceanic migratory bird, the bud of a flowering tree branch, the teeth of sheep, the lost talon of a barn owl – with mysticism and magic inherent in the human existence.

The inspiration for Kria was found on a black lava beach in eastern Iceland in 2006 when Jóhanna Methúsalemsdóttir found a skeleton of an artic tern, or Kria in Icelandic, nestled in the sand.

With the birth of her second daughter soon after came the birth of the Kria collection in 2007.

Above: large silver cod opercle on 16” silver cable-chain

Above: silver cod articular on 28” silver cable-chain

Above: large silver and brass opercle on silver cable-chain

Above: brass cod articular on 28” silver cable-chain

Above: brass cod dentary on 18” silver cable-chain

Above: silver cod opercle on 20” cable-chain

Above: two brass cod branchiostegal on 22” silver cable-chain

Above: silver and brass dentary earrings

Above: medium brass cod dentary on 22” silver cable-chain

The Temporium: this beaded and embellished jewellery collection from London-based designer Fiona Paxton is the festive treat hidden behind day 18 of our Advent calendar.

Her work includes hand-beaded chain mail necklaces, beaten brass rings and leather cuffs.

See more stories about fashion on Dezeen here and more stories about The Temporium here.

Here’s some more information about Fiona:

Fiona Paxton has within a year of setting up her own line of accessories created a distinctive and global profile her peers can only dream of. The trained textiles designer launched her eponymous label in 2008, creating striking hand-beaded necklaces and bracelets   in geometric patterns.

As a globetrotter Fiona has fused her love for Indian artisanship with the iconography of the British punk era she grew up in, conceptual Japanese fashion of the 80s and the German Bauhaus movement.

The London-based designer has found the right mix of eye-catching newness whilst retaining the individuality of each hand- crafted piece, creating a winning alternative to the ubiquitous British high-street.

Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1992 with a distinction in Textiles Design, Fiona became a driving force behind the fashion scenes. Having worked in New York, London and Bangkok, she consulted for various fashion companies such as Armani, Chloe, Moschino and Michiko Koshino.

As the Creative Director for Brewster Textile Design Studio she was not only in charge of the art direction for colour palettes, embroidery concepts and garment shapes, Fiona also applied her eye to trend forecasting. From vintage to popular culture, the arts to the weekend habits of the final consumer, Fiona’s job was to be ahead of the fashion designer in order to present the right textile designs at the start of a new season.

Her fail-safe intuition for both beautiful patterns and the customers’ wishes has resulted in a collection of vibrant beaded necklaces that elegantly snake around the neck and bracelets to make every hand gesture a joy.

With prestigious stockists around the world such as Lane Crawford, Le Bon Marché, Henri Bendel and Saks, her customers are coming back for more soon after having been showered in compliments for their first purchase. Fiona’s pieces have also been featured far and wide in the press, including The New York Times, VOGUE, Harpers Bazaar, ELLE, The Daily Telegraph, Grazia, Marie Claire, JC Report and many more.

New for AW11 Fiona has embarked on designing a men’s jewelry collection, which incorporates her signature hand beaded designs, with chains and hand casted metal shapes for a more edgy look.

These rings by jewellery designer Galit Barak of Israel create rectilinear frames around the wearer’s fingers. 

Called New City, the series of rings and brooches features rough-cut stones framed by rectangles and protruding from the side or between fingers.

Barak created the collection while studying at ShenkarCollage for Engineering and Design.

See more stories about Jewellery here.

The details below are from Galit Barak:

Series of brooches and rings featuring characteristic from gravestones and blocs diagrams of military cemeteries, corresponded with Agi Mishol poem “Farewell”.

Geometric constructions carry classic and rough cut stones in its inner space. The choice to use inner spaces and repeating form enables to break the boundaries of classic jewellery.

Created during the course “Jewel Writes” by Professor Dganit Stern Schocken, Jewelry Design Department, Shenkar Collage for Engineering and Design.

Materials: Silver plated Alpaca, Onyx, Jasper, Tourmalinated Quartz

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Essentials II by Patrik Muff for Nymphenburg	Jointed Jewels by Alissia Melka-Teichroew	Charming by Tord Boontje