Douglas Bucci
Digital technology has become a medium that has redefined the arts, broadening horizons and
changing both the practice and the production of countless disciplines including graphic design,
photography, architecture, industrial design, and jewelry and metalsmithing. The technique of
Computer Aided Design (CAD) is the perfect medium to explore innovations in the jewelry field.
With the expansion of CAD and leaps of modern medical technologies, we can envision that not
only prosthesis, but replicas of actual biomedical tissues could be realized.
These cellular forms are likened to human cells. Starting with this one simple element, a ?cell,?
these simple forms can be repeated, stretched, curved, and linked, creating completely unique
and innovative tangible structures. The digital has been adopted as a means of reinterpreting design,
and making the physical objects of the jewelry discipline.
Douglas Bucci
November 2008