Studio V A N C O X - Fine Jewelry Design and Life Style

Gilsimara Oliveira

Jewelry designer

I started working in the jewellery industry after graduating in Product Design at UEMG (Universidade Estadual de Minas Gerais). I discovered they offered a major in Jewellery Design and found out they even had a graduate school on the subject as well. That was when I really got interested. So I decided to move from Bahia to come to the state of Minas Gerais to study. In my early days I didn't know the Jewellery Design course existed and that it could also enable me to design accessories and watches; but I liked to imagine. During the time I was taking the college entrance exams, I began reading and discovering about product design and that I could also design accessories through the same course.

At the beginning of my career, I interned at the Nucleo de Estudos de Design de Gemas and Jóias of the UEMG, where I had a small contact with stone-cutting and started to enter in the prototyping world, making models in 3D using the Rhino program and also working on jewelry prototyping. While still in college I got an internship here in Vancox which has developed into a full time position today.

The people who inspire me the most are my co-workers Lígia, Ana and Emi, who is no longer working with us. She has helped me a lot and I thank her for that. I have always also admired the work of Wanda Gontijo, as well as the one of other jewelleries such as Carrera and Carrera and Van Cleef...