Jewellery Designers create and make beautiful and unique designs for jewellery, and other decorative or functional fashion accessories or products. The products they design may be mass produced or handcrafted, and may be made from materials such as metals, stone, woods, plastics or fibers. Jewelry designers work with precious metals, diamonds, beads and gemstones to create wearable pieces of art. A jewelry designer may create one-of-a-kind pieces for high-end jewelers or an entire line for a mass-market fashion designer. They may also sell their jewelry themselves. Designers can create jewelry entirely by hand or they can begin the design process by using computer-aided design (CAD) software. As with many artists, jewelry designers are often freelance workers and must continually seek assignments or customers in a competitive market. Jewelry Designers who run their own businesses meet with clients who want to commission them to make jewelry pieces, either to sell or for their own personal use. They talk about the client’s preferences—what jewelry they want done, the metal they want used, the precious stone they want set, among others—to determine the jewelry piece that they want crafted. The Jewelry Designer then draws a preliminary sketch on paper or on the computer using computer-aided design of the piece to be approved by the client. The beauty about the use of computer technology in jewelry design is that the final product is visualized and changes made before the actual work is started. When the client has already approved the design, the jewelry designer then goes to work. He makes the framework of the piece in the process known as mounting. In order to keep themselves updated on the latest fashion trends, they have to do research so they can incorporate these concepts in their jewelry designs.