We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Larisa Zolotova about their original and creative Ring design work. Larisa Zolotova is an award-winning fashion designer, that makes our world a better place with their original ring works.
Larisa Zolotova ("LZ") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Ballerina Ring. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
LZ : The designer's love for classical music and Russian ballet inspired me to create this ring. In addition, this ring gives me the opportunity to show one of my strengths, when working on organic shapes.
LZ : I was focusing on originality of the ring and ease of production.
LZ : I am exhibiting and selling this design.
LZ : This project was originally designed in July 2016 and it took 3 weeks to complete.
LZ : This project was not commissioned. It was pure inspiration.
LZ : It is discussable to sell or lease the production rights for this design.
LZ : I wanted to implement my inspiration of ballet into a jewelry and use a big size of center gemstone.
LZ : I avoid seeing other jewelry designs before I began the project and during the realization. It helps not to get stuck on one idea. In order to develop inspiration, I used only photos of Russian ballet and nature.
LZ : This dynamic, intriguing, complex and unique jewelry design might appeal to extraordinary women: independent spirits forging their own path and inspiring others to do the same.
LZ : This Ballerina’s sculpture unique bezel design sets this design apart from other fine jewelry.
LZ : Ballerina Ring is what it is. There is no any hidden meaning.
LZ : This ring is created as a 3D CAD design. The shape of the ballerina is produced using T-Splines technology within Matrix, as well as the use of lost-wax casting process.
LZ : The position of Ballerina figure is unique. It is located under the gemstone and incorporated into a bezel. Usually, elements of sculpture arrange on the side of the gemstone or a shank.
LZ : I created this ring from the stage of designing, till the stage of buffing. I outsourced only stages of printing 3D wax model and casing.
LZ : The role of technology is huge in this design. CAD Modeling, printing wax are the main parts of the completing the design
LZ : The only one research was done during making the Ballerina ring is creating a wax model and bronze prototype, in order to identify any structural defects and weak points for production purposes.
LZ : Polishing and setting fish-tail setting stages, after CAD Modeling, were the most challenging for this project.
LZ : I always wanted to participate in A'Design Competition because it well-known and the most respectful design contest in the world. That is why I choose and submitted the best of my designs.
LZ : I learned some important principles of creating designs for production purposes, one of them is dividing the piece into some separate elements.
