At the start of December the students at the jewellery department of the Edinburgh College of Art submitted some incredible designs and ideas to be used for the next Johari Jewellery collection.

We were totally overwhelmed by the hugely inspiring ideas on how to use authentic African materials in some stunning designs with a real Johari flavour.

As a next step Jenny Deans, jewellery lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art, will visit Kenya a few weeks in March to work with Sheila, who runs the Johari Jewellery Programme in Nairobi, and the Seed of Hope graduates on finetuning the designs.

With the initial successes of designs and prototypes through combining ideas and creativity from Scottish and Kenyan designers we feel very excited about the new Johari Jewellery collection to be launched early smmer 2008!

First prize winner Johari Jewellery Design Competition
Jenny Sweetnam  

Second prize winners Johari Jewellery Design Competition
Gwen Hosker         
Joanna Hill
Stacey Bentley   
Antonia Chiappe            
Jen Urquhart   
Beanie Major                
Maike Browning            
Ai Yano