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Check out the new slideshow on karinjacobson.com! When my marketing/PR specialist (and good friend) Rachael suggested to me that I should have photos for the website of my new collection on a real, live human, I thought, “Of course!” (facepalm) “why didn’t I do that sooner?”  She made the point that it would not only be pretty, but would help people see how the work sits on a body, and help them to envision it on themselves.  And the photos definitely achieved that.  But what I hadn’t suspected was how it would change the way that I look at the...

I got my first taste of jewelry design while attending the Perpich Center for Arts Education, a fine arts high school in Minneapolis. That beginner class led to an apprenticeship, starting the summer I graduated from high school, and turned into a job working as a bench goldsmith for the next 7 years, during which I also attended college and graduated (summa cum laude, with a degree in History!) from the University of Minnesota. It was with this practical jewelry education and (okay, a little impractical) liberal arts education, and most importantly my burning desire to make my own designs,...