Despina-Aryiri Manolopoulou
Born in Athens, studied Arts and Crafts in Brighton UK and lives in Cyprus.
The inspiration originates from everything…even if it is unknown in the first place: the great designers of the past, the history and the local tradition, the multiform of the nature, the shape of a tool and an architectural building, the sentiments/feelings provoked by a travel, a story, a memory, a moment of joy or sadness… and it is transformed into colorful pieces of jewellery
DAM Designs was established in 2016.
It’s core is the Upcycled Collection. Cheap, useless plastic bags are transformed, after a certain process, into feathery-like multicolored and multishaped earrings and other body ornaments. Quoting French photographer Garance Dore, ‘Jewellery is a very personal thing. It should tell a story about the person who’s wearing it’, the Upcycled Collection combines one’s environmental consciousness with her desire to wear a unique handmade accessory with environmental and artistic value.
