Galit Barak is a jewelry designer with comprehensive knowledge and experience in the jewelry field. She creates conceptual art, contemporary jewelry exhibited worldwide & designing commercial collections. Barak is a teaching fellow at the Jewelry Design Department in Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art.

Her broad expertise in the artistic and commercial aspects of jewelry design allows her to have flexible creative abilities for concept development, distinctive visual language, and art direction. 

Barak is an expert goldsmith with high technical skills in 3D modeling, product development, manufacturing, and designing fashion jewelry and fine jewelry throughout her career.  

 

Stone setting is a jewelry-making technique used to securely fix gemstones or diamonds onto a piece of jewelry.
There are various setting methods, such as prong setting, bezel setting, channel setting, and pavé setting, each chosen based on the shape of the stone, its size, and the desired aesthetic.
The process not only secures the stone but also enhances its brilliance and the overall design of the piece.

The project deals with material and morphological research through the examination of three-dimensional objects, the growth of copper and alum crystals, and the creation of intersections between them—through a jewelry-oriented approach exploring stone setting in metal.
The project corresponds with laboratory research, across different material families and through varied uses.

In the first part of the project, electrochemical crystallization of copper was carried out in a copper sulfate solution (CuSO₄).
Differences in current values cause differences in the crystallization rate: when the current is higher, crystallization is faster and the crystals are smaller; whereas when the current is lower, crystallization is slower, resulting in larger crystals.

In the second part of the project, crystallization was performed in an alum salt solution on copper structures.