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A Design Challenge ... and a Cover Story!

• Karin Jacobson • design award • design process • press • video

A Design Challenge ... and a Cover Story!

Recently, I was invited to participate in MJSA Magazine's Mystery Box Challenge. The idea behind this fun and friendly design challenge is to take a collection of materials supplied by MJSA - and what's in the box was a surprise - and turn them into a wearable piece of jewelry in just four weeks...

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A Fun Trip to Albuquerque ... Where I Won the Saul Bell Award!

• Karin Jacobson • design award • pearls • travel

A Fun Trip to Albuquerque ... Where I Won the Saul Bell Award!

I just returned from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I attended the Santa Fe Symposium and the Saul Bell Awards (spoiler alert: I won!), both hosted by the jewelry supply company Rio Grande. My husband Adam was excited to join me, and we had the best time on our trip!

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So Happy to Have Won the 2018 MJSA Online Design Challenge!

• Karin Jacobson • design award • design process • opals • sapphires

So Happy to Have Won the 2018 MJSA Online Design Challenge!

Last January, I was invited by the editor of MJSA magazine to be one of nine jewelry designers to participate in the MJSA Online Design Challenge.  And last week, I got the most amazing news: I found out I’d won!

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