LTD Edition

‘LTD Edition’ an undergraduate 3rd year jewellery digital design and batch production jewellery project forming part of the 4 year BA Hons Jewellery and Silversmithig department at Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh.  Established in 2009 by Stephen Bottomley, the department’s head, it is now in its sixth year with eca staff* working in partnership with Weston Beamor Ltd and Domino a UK leading jewellery industry casting and design company in Birmingham.
 
This successful long running craft and digital making project was presented in the recent paper ‘ Beneath the Surface / eca Digital-craft borderlands in education’ Bottomley/Gray/Mann, at the 2014 conference 2014 “All Makers Now?”, Craft values in 20th century production, conference, Falmouth University, UK
 
*eca staff include Stephen Bottomley, Susan Cross, Jenny Gray, Gary Grobler and Katherine Hinton, jewellery design and Douglas Bryden & Richard Collins CAD/CAM, Mary Asiedu- Graphic design packaging