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Trendbook 2015+ Set To Unveil At VICENZAORO Fall Show

Vicenza, Italy—TRENDBOOK 2015+, a comprehensive guide to anticipated product and style megatrends in the international jewelry and watch markets, will be launched during the upcoming VICENZAORO Fall jewelry trade show, scheduled for September 7 to 11 in Vicenza, Italy. (The 2014 edition is shown left).

TRENDBOOK 2015+ is produced by TRENDVISION Jewellery + Forecasting, the world's only observatory dedicated to the research, analysis and prediction of future design, market and consumer trends specifically for the jewelry, watch, and accessory industries. An independent division of Fiera di Vicenza, TRENDVISION adopts a model widely used in the fashion industry, and is structured to provide the jewelry and watch sectors with a forward-thinking capability by systematically predicting future consumer preferences, tastes, and values 18 months into the future, and then translating them into a selection of jewelry, watch, and accessory design trends. 

Like its earlier editions, TRENDBOOK 2015+ will define and explain a series of megatrends, which TRENDVISION forecasts will become dominant early in 2015, and it extrapolates and visualizes the various variations that each is expected to produce. 

It will be available in print formats, which can purchased during the Vicenza fair, or online here.

As a special offer ahead of the launch, until September 7 TRENDVISION is making TRENDBOOK 2014+ available online at a 10% discount off the cover price. It forecasts jewelry and watch product and style megatrends starting in 2014. 

Ganoksin Project Announces 2014 Online Jewelry Exhibition

Bangkok, Thailand—Ganoksin, the world’s largest online technical resource for metalsmiths and jewelry designers, announces its fourth annual International Online Jewelry Exhibition.

This year's theme is "Changing Hues: Color Embraced by Metalsmiths Around the World." The exhibition is open to all metalsmiths, professional and amateur, advanced and beginner, around the world, and is seeking works whose primary theme is color, whether that be using colored materials, exploring creating colored surfaces, or encasing the object in color.

Works should be about color, with color embraced as their primary visual focus, not an accent. Works where color is not the primary visual element will be rejected.

As this is an online exhibition, works will only be seen via the photographs metalsmiths submit. It is therefore vital that these be in focus, on a neutral background (preferably not textured), and do an excellent job allowing the viewer to really see the piece and the workmanship involved. Any photographs not meeting exhibition standards will not be used, and the submitting metalsmith will be asked to re-submit the entry with a higher quality of photograph. Works will be juried by the curator and director.



Works will be juried by Beth Wicker, curator, and president of the North Carolina Society of Goldsmiths, and Adjunct Instructor at Northeastern Technical College in South Carolina, USA; and Hanuman Aspler, founder of The Ganoksin Project and director of the exhibition.

Entries will be accepted from now until February 15, 2014. Details and entry information are available here. For questions, please contact Beth Wicker.