Opulent Ethics pendant wins second place in Charles Green competition

The School of Jewellery in Birmingham held a prize giving event last night to reveal the winners of the annual Charles Green / DFI competition. Now in its third year, the competition is held by Charles Green, a family run business in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, and entered by the School of Jewellery’s BA Design for Industry (DFI) students.

Competition entrants were given either 1 or 2 stones by Charles Green and the brief was to design and make a silver pendant or earrings using Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology.

There were 4 winners from the 18 entrants; Annie Li took first prize with her silver and gold plated Lotus pendant. She wins work experience with Charles Green as well as a monetary prize.

  

Opulent Ethics founder, Helen Dobson took second prize with her partly-oxidised (using boiled eggs), 100% recycled UK silver and Peridot Nepenthes pendant.

 

Opulent Ethics' Nepenthes Pendant

Third prize went to Sophie Waters for her pendant and an additional fourth prize went to Amy Roberts for the excellent marketing she did for her Giggle pendant.     

All pieces were also on sale during the event which was open to industry members and saw a presence from numerous Birmingham Jewellery Quarter companies including the Assay Office, the Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre (JIIC) and, of course, Charles Green. 

Opulent Ethics were very proud to accept their award which was for awareness of current trends, problem solving throughout the design process and the finished eye-catching piece.

Inspired by carnivorous pitcher plants and the beautiful green of the Peridot stone supplied by Charles Green, the Nepenthes pendant was created within Opulent Ethics’ ethical policy and used recycled silver rather than those metals used by other entrants.

To find out more about Opulent Ethics or our Nepenthes Range please visit our new wind-powered website;

www.opulentethics.com

That’s all for now….