Is your workbench setup is as ergonomic as possible?
As any seasoned jeweller knows, how you sit during your workday can affect your body in both the short and long term. The bench is the cornerstone of the craft and should be highly customised to each individual’s comfort and task requirements, but even the most well designed setup poses future health risks simply from too much time spent in the chair.
Lockdown Alert Level 3 Regulations
The JCSA presented a webinar on Wednesday 27 May with guest Dr Ivor Blumenthal of the South African Independent Tenants Association where the below points were outlined. As all manufacturing jewellers, wholesalers and retailers are permitted to return to work from 1 June 2020, kindly take note of the following:
Is there money hiding in your workshop?
Jewellers may manufacture under level 4 but selling is not permitted
Lené Swartz – reaping rewards from playful experimentation
Hand sanitizer and jewellery
TELL YOUR CLIENTS TO STOP WEARING RINGS FOR NOW
Anke Linden Jewellery – a rising star on the East Coast
A recent graduate (cum laude) from Durban University of Technology, CPM client Anke van der Linden found her passion for jewellery design during a gap year stint at a retail store. It frustrated her that the pieces she was tasked with selling lacked meaning and artfulness and all looked the same. She felt a desire to create her own range that would be unique and personally expressive – the antithesis of those run-of-the-mill commercial items. Inspired mostly by the forms and textures of nature, she enrolled to study jewellery design and set about crafting metal into wearable works of art. Her first major achievement came shortly thereafter, when she won the student category of PlatAfrica in 2017. She launched her company, Anke Linden Jewellery, that December.
What can you do for your jewellery business during lockdown?
The next few weeks and months will be hard on most of us. First and foremost, you are a human being living through an unprecedented global crisis. If you’re struggling with low morale, lacking motivation and having difficulty focussing on anything work-related, please take the time to find your centre of calm so that you’ll be able to see the opportunity in this obstacle when the skies clear (especially if you have children at home!)