• 10Jun

    ritani_anadareEvery once in a while, a jewelry designer comes along with a philosophy and a design aesthetic so beautiful, so romantic, so utterly and unquestionably exquisite, it just makes you fall in love with his or her pieces even more. That is how it goes with Ritani Anadare, who recently launched a brand new collection devoted to engagement rings, a couple of which you can see to the right.

    As you can see, these engagement rings prominently showcase a leitmotif of twists — that motif is very much on purpose. Some of the pieces are made of polished gold, or white gold as the case may be, and some of them are even made of diamonds. However, the makings of the twists are less important than the meaning behind them.

    Tim Spanjer, speaking for Ritani, has been quoting as explaining the twists thusly: “The twist is the human genome, the double helix of DNA. It’s two hearts intertwining and becoming one.”

    With a philosophy like that, what couple would not want to go with one of these stunning rings?

  • 16Oct

    The Peace Sign, originally created to protest the bomb, quickly grew to become an iconic symbol of peace worldwide. Feeling despair over the testing and building of bombs, a textile designer, Gerald Holtom, decided that a tidy symbol was needed for their disarmament campaign. Designing an “N” for nuclear and a “D” for disarmament finished off with a circle enclosing the letters, it was indeed the simple sign that people sought.

    Many critics laughed and said it would never catch on but like all things iconic, the symbol has stood the test of time. And what is even more interesting is that the creator did not copyright the design. Having deliberately not registered it, he allowed the world to own it. But it holds its rightful place on Holtom’s headstone on his grave.

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