Let age be no excuse....

What will you do to gain knowledge? Will you drive 182 miles or 292 kilometres from Penang to KL? 

At the age of 60+++, what will you do as leisure? Will you learn hand skills from scratch? 

Josef Bronner will...

A German senior engineer cum GM who sign up "Basic Jewelry Design and Smithing Course" with MC Square Studio. 

Travel back and forth, spending 20 over days with us to create his series of master piece. 

You must have these ingredient to make the course a success namely passion, time, money and diligence.

Josef Bronner has these all (^.^)

After the course, he will be leaving Malaysia - a place he has spend almost his entire life and back to Germany 

Me, Chin, Lizzie, Dawn and Wei will surely missed him much - a humble senior citizen.

This quote from Henry Ford most well describes him:
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

Spot the teacher and the student :)

Amazing piece crafts from wax....

Pink Silver -  I call this "Happy Metal"

Josef Bronner has good polishing and crafting skills

Inner Peace Seeking Moment - Mix Media Charms Pendant

idea recording

combination of silver and brass

Just realise - to materialise our idea is an inner peace seeking journey. When reading from paper the world chaos seems like a never ending story. And the story became a real horror. The weak and small are always the victims of the violent and hatred. As a 3 children mother, I was so terrify to accept this fact. 

When in such emotional condition, I choose to ease myself by writing, singing, dancing, drawing, watching tv bla bla.... But when the negative feeling is still there, I turn to God for HIS guidance!

Design description: 

The round crooked background silver plate is the current world with confuse lines criss-crossing all over created by hammering technique. The texture was emphasized by blackening technique.The original sketch was a round structure, but I was not satisfied with the outcome. Turn to use heavy duty scissors to cut and trim the round onto crooked.shape until it represent my though of the confusing world, then I stop.  The flame shape brass plate holding colours cubic zirconia representing 5 of us: black is the father Chin, white is me, blue and pink is Lizzie's and Dawn's favourite colour. And lastly the green prince of us at the bottom of all stones. We hope to be the light that walk the talks of GOD's teaching. At second though the flame plate is also like hands holding together when you carry something precious. Symbolized GOD's love and teaching hold all us together to face the current and future challenges .

Touch By Passions

"Protections Shield"- a sensuous hammer texture pendant design by Caroline for her mother

"Ying Yang" -  masterpiece design by Caroline for her Tai Chi Master

"寿桃"-

Peach Pendant

classical design birthday gift by Irawati for her grandpa

Amoeba ring design by Irawati (set with CZ) 

Irawati very first piece of "Silhouette Butterfly" charm - finely crafted

"Moon Walking" - Fabiana very fist design 

 Those beautiful works are done by three of MC Square Studio students. All come with passion to gain knowledge for jewelry making. 

 Caroline - a physicist cum dancer who took 2 hours each forth and back trip just to attend the classes. ["Thanks" to KL traffics!!! :P] Jewelry making was her childhood dream and she manages to fulfil it at the age of early 30s. Since this is a right timing and opportunity,  nothing can stop her from making her dream come true.  During the whole learning process, she has to let go some techniques like soldering, due to her back injury. Chin and I were touch by her hard working attitude, she did a lots of practise on brass sawing before settling on silver plate. And the end results are stunning. (as per pictures) She dreams of these beautiful pieces. And managed to capture into her sketch book the middle of the many nights . And she truly believe that this pendants will help to protect her loved ones in a way, I think the same too. Cause those pendants were created out from her "sincere heart", and that can be feel from the people who received it.

 Irrawati - a charming young lady travel all the way from Indonesia just to learnt about jewelry making. She spent 8 days with us to learn about basic CAD (3 hours morning class) and silver smiting (3 hours afternoon class) - Intensively! She is a smart and fast learner. Chin named her - the most talented metal smiting students.  I still can remember that moment when she first did her sawing. I thought Chin was doing the sawing cause when listen to the sawing rhythm, it was continuously without pause and full of confident. No breaking of single saw plate.  And her first masterpiece - Silhouette Butterfly charms was splendid. She always complaints "This is hard" but in the end she still mange to did it well - I meant very well! The most gifted attitude she has is being a good listener. She listens, asked questions if got doubts and digest then executes well. I think these are the most important character of being a fast learner - passionate, hard working, humbler and a good listener.

 Fabiana - a housewife who taking care of 4 kids, 1 dog and two cats(?). I like to describe her as supermom. Besides, of being a driver, chef, house keeper and etc., her energy in jewelry making and designing never fade but double.  Her great passion of making her own jewelry designs is always there and her design ideas seems fall from the sky. She has all the character of being a professional jewelry designer. 

 Passions is a positive energy that can be feel by people around you. It is like a smile or laughter that make others happy too. To be passionate is the great instinct to do things right with all our might and heart. 

1st Ring Making Workshop

This jewellery work bench for 6 pax was completed in 2 days. Major parts were DIY. (We love recycling and reused, that's why you will see many familiar things in MC Square Studio appear/us in different form) Chin took 2 days to complete. This is the first time we handle 5 people in a group. The 3hrs workshop end up to 4hrs plus. Some steps have to be simplified so everybody can bring home their ring on time. 

Independence Jewelry Designer Course (JDC01)

Vocational Course

3 days full time (24 hours) or 8 lessons (3 hours/session): RM 7500

Your benefits from this course are:

• Owning an genuine JewelCad Educational License (With Dongle - the key)
• Your own jewelry design portfolio with minimum 10 conceptual design of jewelries.
• Experiencing Computer Aided Manufacturing software and CNC machine operation method.
• Your very first jewelry production (from concept to physical) with the full support  from factory at reasonable price. 
• Continue support of CAD software tutoring with additional hour at RM 100/hour only

Reveal The Secret of Jewelry Design & Goldsmithing The Easiest way to become a Jewelry Designer & Copycat!!!

Create Your Own Brand & Be Your Own Boss

To Register:

1) Please fill in the form

2) We will contact you for appointment. Purpose of the meeting is for you to have a look of the workshop.

3) After that you can pay the fees (you will receive a formal receipt) and confirm class starts date.

These are CAD rendering jewelry designs:

Ring Making Workshop (Code: SCRD1)

Materialized your creativity and start a new hobby that is fun, quick and highly therapeutic! 

Do it yourself and learn to make your own rings as they are more economical. 

You may even start your own business by learning silversmiths skills.

These workshops will provide you with essential silversmiths skills to make and create your own unique ring. 

Scroll down to find out more or email materialisecreativity@gmail.com

Basic Level:

Beginner or those who longed for metalworking techniques.

Course Content:

1. Introduction to types of tools and sterling silver property.
2. Silver Band Milling Demonstration
3. Ring Size and structure calculation.
4. Silver Band Sawing Technique
5. Ring Shaping(Hammering) 
6. Ring Soldering
7. Ring Filling
8. Finishing and Polishing
9. Stone Setting: experiencing stone setting with premium quality cubic zirconia.
10. Tip and Tricks on Basic metalworking.

Designs which you will take home:

From this workshop, you will have the opportunity to create your own unique piece of ring to take home. Designs taught during the workshop would be:

You decide on the positioning of the stone

Make this and bring home

Please note that the ring design may be different from pictures shown above depending on student hands skill. However, methods taught will be standard for this course. We reserve the right to change the content of the course from time to time.

Master Craftsman: 

Chin (012 2446 286)

Course Fee: 

Each Session Consist Group of 4 students : RM350 per student
Come with friends, you get 10% discount for 2 ppl (i.e. RM 630 / 2 ppl)
                                        15% discount for 3-4 ppl (i.e. RM893/3 ppl) 

Duration: 3 - 4 hours

Venue: 

MC Studio at Taman Tun Dr Ismail

Contact person:

Jane 016 2668 066

Chin 012 2446 286

Choose your session:
Sunday : 2-6pm
Monday to Friday : 9am-1pm and 2-6pm
Saturday: our rest day (^L^)

To Register:

1) Please fill in the form
2) We will contact you for appointment. Purpose of the meeting is for you to have a look of the workshop.
3) After that you can pay the fees (you will receive a formal receipt) and confirm class starts date.

Basic Jewelry Design and Smithing Course (Code:JMC01)

Jewelry Design Basic Course

 Promotion for 1st batch students (Maximum 10 people)

What do I mean of promotion?

Omit the 1st year member fees of not less the RM 250. As a member you can make full use of out jewelry making machines such as kiln/furnace, milling bench, milling lathe, basic metal-smithing tools, books etc. (Consumable tools are not included)

Our jewelry design course consists of basic metal smithing:

Total cost RM 2500 not included consumable tools.

(Estimated total basic metal-smithing tools and consumable tools cost: less then RM 1000)

Duration: 24 hrs (3 hrs per session, at least once a week, 8 days to complete)

Schedule:

• Monday to Thursday : 2 - 5 pm and 7 - 10 pm
• Friday : 2 - 5 pm
• Saturday : 7 - 10 pm
• Sunday : 9 - 12 pm and 2 - 5 pm

Location: TTDI (My new home studio, opposite of 1 Utama)

Course starts on November 2010

We teach basic skills such as: alloying, filling, piercing/sawing, milling, soldering and polishing 

Projects included: band ring, pendent, earrings or chain. (at least 2 projects will be complete) At the end of the course, you will get your self make silver jewelries.

This is a basic but important course as a entry to jewelry design. After completing this basic course, you may further into CAD which is more focus on conceptual and mold making.

Should you need further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact :

Jane +6016 2668 066 or Chin +6012 2446 286

To Register:

1) Please fill in the form

2) We will contact you for appointment. Purpose of the meeting is for you to have a look of the workshop.

3) After that you can pay the fees (you will receive a formal receipt) and confirm class starts date.

MC Studio 

Details Instruction From Master Craftsman Chin

Beautiful Ring Design By Student

Testimonial:

My name is Fabiana and I am a 42-year-old woman who has the dream to spend my free (and not so free) time creating art.  I decided to take on a jewelry course because I want to express my creativity in giving shape to precious things. 

I looked around and I even considered a full university course, however I couldn’t find anything that could fit my needs. I then came across “materialize creativity” website and I chose this particular course because I thought it was comprehensive and totally hands on. I was looking for a course that would give me the basic silversmithing knowledge allowing me to create something in a relatively short time to give me a sense of accomplishment. I found all I was looking for, here with Chin and Jane. In my personal opinion, after having gone through the course, I feel this course would suit many different people and needs. In fact, it is done in such a way that those who intend to have fun and create something, will have the satisfaction to do so and those who intended to know what it is all about in order to go further in the learning of the skills, like me, can do so too. Chin and Jane are two lovely professionals who put their enthusiasm and their smile in every moment of the course. The course has been a great experience that’s why I don’t want it to end. 

Thank you Jane and Chin!

- Fabiana, 42, Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia