Title of Design: Dandelion ‧ the Power of Life
Designer: Tang Yuk Ying
Sponsor: C.S.S. Jewellery Co. Limited
Description: Dandelion has a tough vitality. Its seeds fly with the wind, and no matter where they land or how adverse the environment is, they can still take root, grow rapidly and sustain their lives.
The designer vividly highlights the vitality of dandelion with the rotatable corolla, and skillfully demonstrates the beauty and energy of dandelion with the lively green garnets. The perseverance and bravery of dandelion make its way out from desperation and bloom into a beautiful life.
Category: Pendant/Brooch (Range: HK$40,001 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: Rice
Designer: Law Tsz Wan
Sponsor: WILSON LAW FINE JEWELLERY LIMITED
Description: The design idea comes from Mr Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice. Food is a necessary condition for people to survive. Without food, people cannot survive. The invention of hybrid rice helps mankind to solve famine and benefit mankind, which is the origin of life.
Category: Pendant/Brooch (Range: HK$12,000 to HK$40,000)
Title of Design: Ocean of Life
Designer: Xu, Qihua
Sponsor: H Y L Creations
Description: Life on Earth originated in the sea.
In Greek mythology, the dolphins that guard the ocean interspersed between the waves, seeking for an angel who can protect the ecology of the ocean, then give her a bracelet, and protect the Earth’s precious water resources together, as well as defending the sea and live.
The waves are the promise of life, the spoondrift rise and fall freely between the blue waves, the sea was foaming, it’s the water and air, it’s the depth and infinity, when the sun shines on the sparkling water, it awakens the light of life.
Category: Bracelert/Necklace (Range: HK$25,000 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: Orignal Origin
Designer: Wong Wai Chun
Sponsor: Regeneration Company
Description: Every creatures on earth are nurtured from strikes of stars and cell division after Big Bang. Indicating main stone jadeite as the nurturing lives and nucleus and indicating how stars are formed and situation of cell division with the irregular lines of ring in an abstract way.
Category: Ring (Range: HK$10,000 to HK$30,000)
Title of Design: Territory
Designer: Chan Wing Long
Sponsor: LET IT BE THE BEST
Description: Soil is the source of all the thing with full of life elements. Although the soil is ant people’s feet, it seems insignificant. But We coexist with the soil. The soil can give the green forest beautiful life an give us a better living environment. Our growth is inseparable from the land.
Category: Ring (Range: HK$10,000 to HK$30,000)
Title of Design: The Fountain of Life
Designer: Chau Hoi Ying
Sponsor: Embrace International
Description: This fountain’s water represents the power of life. We have ups and downs throughout our lives. Don’t give up and always look at the bright side. The colour tones chosen reminds us happiness and harmony in lives.
Category: Ring (Range: HK$10,000 to HK$30,000)
Title of Design: Luck arrives or turn
Designer: Cheung Hoi Fun
Sponsor: SCC TREASURE LIMITED
Description: Turn the leaves, and the five-color bauhinia flowers inlaid with empty beads run around the central axis. The five colors choose from the representative colors of the five elements (gold, wood, water, fire, solid).
In addition, erected as a ring and turned upside down as a pendant, yin and yang can transform into each other, and at the same time the two are interdependent. Yin and Yang include the five elements, and the five elements contain yin and yang, which work together and are the source of life.
Category: Ring (Range: HK$30,001 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: The Beginning of Life
Designer: Xu, Qihu
Sponsor: H Y L Creations
Description: Between warm and cold, vitality is reflected.
The light focuses, the hope freezes.
The design concept of this ring is “the beginning of life”.
Scientist say life first evolved by combing light with water, creating chemical interactions which led to the growth of plants.
So this design uses two colors, red and blue, as the gems color, representing the elements of the Earth’s light and water.
The inspiration comes from the posture of plants when they grow and bud, the flower bud grows gradually, symbolizing life like a flower, ready to bloom.
Category: Ring (Range: HK$30,001 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: The Spring of Life
Designer: Chow Kam Man
Sponsor: Union Star Inc Limited
Description: It is water that gives life to everything. From evaporation to condensation, clouds to water, water freezes to ice, it appears and transforms in different ways and becomes the source of life for all living things on Earth.
Water will present various forms in different environments as an idea. The fountain on the ring will vibrate and rotate continuously, representing the endless circulation to provide nutrients for all things on the earth. The surface of the ring is made of sapphire, which creates the dynamics of the water surface and the waterfall, implying that people look at high places and water flows low. The bottom of the ring ends with a vortex design, which brings out that life will eventually slip away no matter whether it goes through upstream or downstream, so take things as they come and go with the flow.
Category: Ring (Range: HK$30,001 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: Fountain
Designer: Wong Wai Chun
Sponsor: Regeneration Company
Description: Water - the essential element for all creatures such as animals, plants or even cells. Presenting unique forms of water by abstract curve lines, main color tones of blue and green and combinations of aquamarines and fresh water pearls. Earrings can be transformed into simpler design by taking off metal parts.
Category: Earrings (Range: HK$15,000 to HK$50,000)
Title of Design: Volcano and Verdant Tree
Designer: To Sze Man
Sponsor: Dhyana Creative Workshop
Description: Earth is the origin of life, formed from seawater, land, and trees. The crustal movement created volcanos, and rainfalls joined into rivers and oceans. It eventually brings majestic scenery to us.
Category: Earrings (Range: HK$15,000 to HK$50,000)
Title of Design: Flaming Phoenix
Designer: Au See Cheung
Sponsor: LET IT BE THE BEST
Description: Phoenix is the messenger of happiness in the world. Every five hundred years, it will bear all the accumulated unhappiness and hatred in the world, throw itself into the flames, and exchange the peace and happiness of the world with the end of life and beauty. Similarly, it is only after the great physical pain and discipline that they are reborn with a better body.
Life is like a ire phoenix, which can regenerate a better body
Category: Earrings (Range: HK$15,000 to HK$50,000)
Title of Design: O2 ‧ The Gift of Nature
Designer: Tang Yuk Ying
Sponsor: C.S.S. Jewellery Co. Limited
Description: Inspired by oxygen, the most essential element for life, the design echoes the round-shaped appearance of its chemical symbol “O2”. The pair is formed by rotatable orbs, which are also connected by the molecular models.
Nature is full of wonders and all are closely linked. When light is absorbed in the process of photosynthesis, the water in plant transforms to oxygen, which sustains all lives in nature. Would you appreciate this gift from nature when taking a breath?
Category: Earrings (Range: HK$50,001 to HK$100,000)
Title of Design: Face Off
Designer: Lam, Yuet Heung Mona
Sponsor: ISE JEWELLERY CO LIMITED
Description: The inspiration of design comes from the window lattice in ancient China. Different shapes and alignments stick close to each other, generating infinite variations and showing an artistic conception of richness and diversity. The origin of life comes from the close-knit of the different environments, complementing each other without end. The colour of ruby represents the “fire” in the Five Elements, unleashing strength in life. Together with the sparkling diamonds at the sides, they add splendour to each other, shine brilliantly, extend and develop, and keep passing on from generation to generation.
Category: Earrings (Range: HK$50,001 to HK$100,000)
Title of Design: Start of Life
Designer: Kam Choi
Sponsor: LET IT BE THE BEST
Description: A catepillar never knows that a butterfly is its future life.
Surely, the butterfly also does not know that it has ever been a catepillar.
The catepillar always thinks that its life has come to an end when it pupates into a butterfly, but inadvertently metamorphosis into a new life. Life is a cycle, each end is a new beginning.
Category: Earrings (Range: HK$50,001 to HK$100,000)
Title of Design: The Tales of the Spirit of Wind
Designer: Ng Yuen Kiu
Sponsor: Dhyana Creative Workshop
Description: Air is the elements that every life is needed and important. It maintains the lifespan, while it gives birth to the new-born life.
In this work, I choose the butterfly as a messenger of the air element, its wings is drawn with the feeling of the strong contrast, represent the feature of the wind. When the butterfly flies and stay on a flower, it creates a cycle of the life.
Category: Bracelert/Necklace (Range: HK$25,000 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: Origin of Marine
Designer: Wong Wai Chun
Sponsor: Regeneration Company
Description: There was only ocean in the initial period of time. Most of the lives were nurtured by corals. Consequently, all species are evolved from marine organisms. Main stone aquamarine with blue and green color tones and pearls represent the broadness of marine. Abstract curves represents forms of corals. Necklace can be transformed into simpler design by taking off metal parts.
Category: Bracelert/Necklace (Range: HK$25,000 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: Transmutation
Designer: Kam Choi
Sponsor: LET IT BE THE BEST
Description: A catepillar never knows that a butterfly is its future life.
Surely, the butterfly also does not know that it has ever been a catepillar.
The catepillar always thinks that its life has come to an end when it pupates into a butterfly, but inadvertently metamorphosis into a new life.
Life is a cycle, each end is a new beginning.
Category: Bracelert/Necklace (Range: HK$80,001 to HK$150,000)
Title of Design: Start of Life
Designer: Kam Choi
Sponsor: LET IT BE THE BEST
Description: A catepillar never knows that a butterfly is its future life.
Surely, the butterfly also does not know that it has ever been a catepillar.
The catepillar always thinks that its life has come to an end when it pupates into a butterfly, but inadvertently metamorphosis into a new life.
Life is a cycle, each end is a new beginning.
Category: Bracelert/Necklace (Range: HK$80,001 to HK$150,000)
Title of Design: Endlessly
Designer: Au See Cheung
Sponsor: LET IT BE THE BEST
Description: Life seems so abstract with so many different theories, It is hard to understand. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? The answer is still to be explored. But from the growth of plants, we can see the seed grows from seed germination to growth of leaves, finally flowering and fruit, and seed, and then the plant will wither again, such a cycle of life, let us see the existence of life.
My design is to use the plant life as a metaphor, so the title of “Ceaseless”.
Category: Bracelert/Necklace (Range: HK$80,001 to HK$150,000)
Title of Design: Forbidden Fruit
Designer: Law Tsz Wan
Sponsor: WILSON LAW FINE JEWELLERY LIMITED
Description: The inspiration for the brooch comes from the second chapter of Genesis. Under the temptation of snakes, Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowing good and evil, and then Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Later, as the mother of human beings, human beings were born. The brooch is made of 18K yellow gold and 18K white gold. The fruits and snakes on the branches are made of hot enamel, and the leaves are setting emeralds.
Category: Pendant/Brooch (Range: HK$12,000 to HK$40,000)
Title of Design: Offsprings of the Dragon
Designer: Sin Yan Tung
Sponsor: LET IT BE THE BEST
Description: Water is the source of life, without which no life can continue. The source of life in my mind is always cloaked in mystery and cannot be easily touched. The dragon is an ancient and mysterious creature of legend. The ancestors of the Chinese people have a close relationship with the dragon, which symbolises great power, especially over water. I have combined the two to form the source of life in my mind.
Category: Pendant/Brooch (Range: HK$12,000 to HK$40,000)
Title of Design: Nurture
Designer: Chow Kam Ma
Sponsor: Union Star Inc Limited
Description: Life comes from the gestation of nutrients in nature. The morning light shines on all things on the earth, dew gives life continuity, and the soil balances plant nutrients. The nature have spirits, plants and trees also have soul.
The earth can carry everything which all grow naturally. The light-shaped ruby represents the sun shining on the earth, giving nutrients to the luxuriant emerald leaves. Sitting on the leaves, the national treasure panda can highlight the preciousness of life, while the shape of waves and water droplets expresses that rainwater gives life to the continue of growth and hope.
Category: Pendant/Brooch (Range: HK$40,001 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: Pure
Designer: Ko Wing Yu
Sponsor: ISE JEWELLERY CO LIMITED
Description: All the living creature has nourished by water in the nature.
Water nurtures and fosters all lives.
The lives of the fowls in the air and fishes in the sea are passed on.
The creation of "Pure " is an inspiration, it praises the creation of lives and the earth is thriving and will achieve a better future.
Category: Pendant/Brooch (Range: HK$40,001 to HK$80,000)
Title of Design: life ‧ cybercity
Designer: Mak Tin Long
School: VTC Youth College
Description: “Life·Cybercity”
“Life·Cybercity” is a brooch made of silver, enamel, topaz and zircon stones. Water molecules, roots, trunk of tree and skyscrapers coating with chips symbolizing water, earth resources, nature and cyber city respectively. The brooch represents a scene of a high-tech city built of earth materials and water connecting lives. A great admiration for the resources gifts from Mother Earth and the wonderful lives on the planet. And to bring out an important message of blending high-tech urban development and precious nature.
Category: Pendant/Brooch
Title of Design: The beetles
Designer: Lee Kwan Ho
School: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Description: The Beetles
This men's jewelry series features three beetles inhabiting “The World Tree”. Rhino Beetles are one of the strongest animals in the wild, they use their horns as weapons to fight for dominance during mating season. The design aims to accompany users to achieve what they strive for in life.
Category: Ring
Title of Design: The Creation of Entirety
Designer: Leung Kwok Yee
School: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Description: In Taoist “Daodejing”, "Dao begins “One” (nothingness; or reason of being), “One” begins “Two” (yin and yang), “Two” begins “Three” (Heaven, Earth and Man; or yin, yang and breath qi), Three begins all things." Pink and green tourmalines in the middle of the ring showcase the interdependence of yin and yang, balance, and nurturing a variety of species. The outer cabochon sapphire extensions mean the growth of different individuals.
White crystals, representing “water” in “five elements” of the ring shank, supporting the development of the main body. Water benefits gold, the shank is interlocked with coin shapes. The branches of cabochon sapphires represent the coexistence of soil and wood to sustain life. The shape in the middle is like a burning fire, extending in an irregular shape and shining.
Category: Ring
Title of Design: Emerge from a Pupa
Designer: Chan Hoi Yi
School: Sheffield Hallam University
Description: The trapped butterfly larva in the cocoon breaks free and emerges from the chrysalis. A small life shows its great courage in the face of difficulties.
The wings formed by the combination of the two concepts of flowers and butterflies symbolize the will to survive of every life on the earth, and they must overcome all difficulties before they can fly high. This express the essence of the origin of life.
The design tries to capture the beautiful moment of breaking out of the cocoon and the power and dynamics of flying with wings.
Category: Ring
Title of Design: Rain dance
Designer: Lau Shing Kit Chris
School: Hong Kong Design Institute
Description: Rainwater has been the source of people's life since ancient times. People have combined rainwater with hope and evolved it into an elegant ceremony - the rain dance. The woman in this pendant expresses the beauty of the rain dance and the prayer for rain, and also depicts the most beautiful moment when the rain falls during the ceremony, demonstrate human respect for the source of life.
Category: Pendant/Brooch
Title of Design: No music no life
Designer: Chu Lok Ton
School: Shau Kee School of Creativity (HKICC)
Description: Life is like a movement of an unique symphony, in which the melody can be joyful or sad, and the rhythm can be bright but slow. Compose a wonderful movement for yourself with the power of loving life!
Category: Earrings