Lisa van Zyl of Firefly Jewellers won a national jewellery design competition held annually by the Roland jewellery equipment company, Harmony Gold and American Swiss. Lisa used Computer Aided Designing (CAD) for her winning designs.

Lisa van Zyl and some of her unique creations

“CAD is definitely the new trend in jewellery designing, as the customer can virtually see what they are getting before any manufacturing is done. This allows the customer the freedom to makechanges to the design,” she said.

 Lisa matriculated at Wittedrift High School in 2006 and is studying jewellery manufacturing and design under her dad's watchful eye at Firefly Jewellers. They specialise in the unique designing of fine jewellery and also the manufacturing of designs in precious metals,  diamonds, tanzanite and other precious stones. The CAD design looks exactly like the finished product and the beauty of it is that the customer will be able to see what the design will look like in different metals and with different stones.  

If you want Lisa to design and manufacture your winning jewellery piece, you can contact her at Firefly Jewellers on 082 971 5595 or lisav@xnets.co.za