Jewelry designers invited to contest

Jewelry designers invited to contest

JAKARTA (JP): Jewelry designers are invited to participate in
the Diamonds-International Awards 1998, the most important
international jewelry design competition.

Contestants should send their designs by Jan. 17, 1997 to the
Diamond Information Center office, Jl. Proklamasi 46, Central
Jakarta.

The designers must be Indonesian citizens and over 18 years
old.

Winners will be flown to Paris in January 1998 to receive the
trophy and prizes include a return Jakarta-Paris trip for two
people with considerable exposure opportunities worldwide.

The preliminary judging sessions will be in four regions:
America, Asia/Pacific, Europe/Africa/Middle East and the Indian
sub-continent. Designs will be chosen in each region for the
final judging in London in March.

The Diamonds-International Awards was founded by De Beers, the
world's largest diamond mining company, in 1953.

It was set up to help raise standards of contemporary jewelry
design.

The Diamond Information Center's manager, Nanny Budiman, said
the Information Center recently held a workshop on diamond
jewelry design. The workshop aimed to help people enter the
contest. About 80 participants, including design students from
the Bandung Institute of Technology and Trisakti University, took
part in the workshop. (sim)