IIG as a Jewellery Designing Institute

Jewellery has been a part of civilization for more than 25000 years. Over time and in cultures, the fundamental aspect of jewellery designing has evolved and taken new forms.

 

Jewellery designing is the art of creating jewellery for men and women for many generations. You can find inspiration through nature, religion, dreams, music, art and literature. Apart from the mentioned sources, you can also find inspiration through catalogues, books, stores, photos and exhibitions. The inspiration to make designs can come from any source. Learn every day from your immediate environment.

 

When you are creating jewellery designs, you require an idea and a vision to create it. A jewellery designer works with precious gems, diamonds and beads to create unique jewellery.

Do you know that creating jewellery has a huge market and the demands for diamonds, gems and jewellery is from ancient times spanning global markets. One such market is the Indian market where jewellery is created as mentioned above for many eras. So much so that the jewellery business is handed down from one generation to another.

 

I would like to write about one such institute – International Institute of Gemology existing since 1965. A legacy that has been created for the last 5 decades with passion. It has trained more than 100000 professionals over the last 5 decades. It has many specialized courses spread across Gems, diamonds and Jewellery education. They believe in delivering tailored solutions for each of their students.

 

What kind of courses are offered at IIG? Can we turn our passion into profession?

 

It is natural to have questions like what will you learn at the Institute? Do you have ideas and don’t know how to create designs on paper or computer? And questions like how am I going to grade and assort diamonds? How many kinds of gemstones exist in nature?

 

Do you have questions like these running in your mind?

The answer is to bring your ideas and visions to the institute so that you can learn about it.

 

Many students come to the Institute from all walks of life. Some are business-oriented, entrepreneurs, international students and pan India students. Then some students follow their hearts and turn passion into a profession.

 

Their courses are globally recognized. They have achieved success in creating a name for themselves whereby the International students are satisfied with the courses as they have a global content and their certificates are valid and recognised in the international market.

For jewellery lover’s, studying at IIG is a paradise. The courses in gems, diamonds and jewellery covers all topics from mines to market. Practical knowledge is imparted with thorough guidance.

 

Let me explain the courses in few lines for you so that you have a clarity on it.

 

Master’s in Gems and Jewellery is an all rounded course where you will learn about the theoretical and practical part of Gemology, Diamond and jewellery designing. Gemology part of the course covers all the technical aspect of gemstones from mines to market. Diamond grading and assorting is taught in this course with 10 C’s and VGS grading system. Jewellery part of the course covers manual designing, manufacturing, Rhino (licensed version) Matrix Gold (licensed version), branding and retailing.

 

What if you want to learn only about manual jewellery designing?

 

Basic manual jewellery design will teach you the creation part – it is the starting point of learning jewellery design techniques. Your ideas and vision will be polished and you will be able to create designs on the paper as IIG has an enterprising faculty teaching various techniques and aspects of jewellery designing from the grass root levels – right from traditional antique jewellery to current trends.

 

Do you think manual designing is enough? Or do you want to learn more about designing? Do you want to have computer-aided designing experience?
 

In the CAD professional course, you will work on licensed versions of Rhino and MatrixGold

Your designs are bought to life in these courses keeping in mind the technical aspect of jewellery designing. In the CAD Professionals program course, you will learn about the tools, 3D modelling, interface, creating rings, pendants, earrings, editing tools, blending curves, designs, stone setting techniques, weight calculations, modelling, and exporting a 3D model for CAM.

 

Diamonds are forever and brings joy to the wearer forever.

 

At IIG you are trained for life. You will be industry ready with complete personality development. You will learn all the grading and assorting terms. You will learn about rough and polished diamonds with 10 C’s and VGS grading system. IIG is backed by many industry stalwarts and finding your place in the industry is assured.

Colors play a major part in our life. In the same way Gemology course is about various colors of gems. You will learn about mines, origins, regions and the grading aspect in this course. Gemstones are bought to life in this course.

IIG is starting a new course just for manufacturing students. All manual and CAD designs are manufactured using gold/ silver/ diamonds and gems. These designs are processed to create wax models for the manufacturing process. Then the beautiful designs are cast. The course is learnt at manufacturing units where you can learn in real–time process (practical).

 

At the end of the course you will have questions on how will you brand your product for sales? Is my shop attractive enough to make a sale on regular basis?

 

At IIG you will learn about creating logos, branding your product and setting up your store to make it look attractive. You will learn about brand identity. Topics like product costing and budgeting for both Indian and International markets are covered. Sales and inventory cycles with case studies is taught in this program.

 

Do you think Retailing is an important part of the product?

 

The retail sale part brings joy, as our labor of love for jewellery has come to fruition. The course at IIG teaches the complete process of the retail jewellery business. It has an introduction to 4 P’s of merchandising industry. They teach about target customers, buying patterns, visual merchandising and store management techniques.

 

As the saying goes: only a jeweller will know the actual price of a stone – they know their talent of their students and guide them in creating fantastic designs. They create award winners whose designs are featured in magazines and attain fame. One of our designer recently received recognition at the Artisans award at IIJS Premiere 2022. (Visit us to know more about our award winners).

 

Come to IIG for appraisal workshops, projects, themes and portfolio making. They also have factory visits in Mumbai, outside Mumbai and International visit.

 

From creating manual designs to manufacturing, wholesale, branding and retailing jewellery – all the topics are taught under one roof. Visit the Centres at Opera House, Andheri, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hongkong. To know more log onto their website – www.iigindia.com

Charmi Soni

My family is in the business of gems and diamonds exports since 1962. I am in the trade of gems and jewelry from the last 15 yrs and learnt various aspects pertaining to the trade.  Being a part of this industry I garnered insights on gems, diamonds and jewelry.  I have knowledge of manufacturing jewelry. I have authored a handbook on casting techniques. I write blogs on various methods of healing and meditation with gemstones.